Job Application Websites are Broken.

Job application websites are broken.

Please upload your resume. Now, please input everything on your resume into these text boxes.

Don’t remember what month you left a job you had 20 years ago anymore? Too bad. We need the exact day you left it even though it was 5 employers ago.

Fill in the keywords to try to get past our HR department’s laziness in actually reading resumes. If you’re lucky, the resume will get in front of the hiring manager.

The whole system is broken.

Why is it like this? Websites like Linkedin already have this information. Why can’t your HR system can’t talk to the social media platform?

I sit on the other side of things right now. Twiddling my thumbs waiting for my HR recruiter to send me job candidates.

All I hear are crickets.