To find the job application and interview process tedious?

Just read this article, some inspiration for those of us currently job seeking, perhaps?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm240jyl09go

They are soul destroying. 90% get rejected through AI though you could be a perfect fit.

It obviously doesn't work because people constantly leave jobs after a short time and people literally say 'Oh, they were so good on paper'

Oh, the irony.

I did 6 interviews for my current role and I also did 8 interviews for another role I applied for. I'm in my early 30s and work within the Tech industry. I've been made redundant 4 times now nearly all of the businesses I worked for opened an office in India and slowly moved the work to there.

Agree with points already covered

Another frustration of mine is being ghosted after final stage interview. Has happened multiple times to me.

Most recently got to final stage with a very well known global organisation who claims to care about neurodiversity. I presumed that would mean being able to afford enough HR resource, who at the very least could send an automated rejection email but nothing.

I then politely sent a follow up email and asked for some feedback but that was ignored too.

I’d obsessively researched their company and role, and spent so much time and effort to get to final stage only to not be worth a simple automated rejection email.

I feel exactly the same 😞 been jobhunting for over a year now

even when I meet all of the criteria from a job ad I’ve still been rejected

So much this. Dh is looking and has been turned down with the feedback “the salary is not where he’s at” eg £35-45k when he earns double. His specialism salary really varied under the same job title between companies. If they just said their salary they wouldn’t waste his time or theirs!

Me too!! Where is common decency? At least say thank you for your interest? I'm starting to think I'm too old :')

Yeah, sometimes I wonder why we bother with CVs anymore when having to fill out forms. I hate when you submit on indeed, and you don't hear back from the company. Sometimes it doesn't even change to 'viewed' either. I think it's quite rude to be fair.

Job seeking is grim. Another weird one is when recruiters ask you to send them a CV when they've just connected with you on Linked In. What is the point of looking at my Linked In profile and then asking for my CV, it's literally exactly the same content, there's not going to be anything more interesting in there! And my favourite at the moment is losing out to the internal candidate on a load of questions that they would always outperform you on. Forget the money, the best thing about getting a new job is not having to do job seeking any more.

OMG that's next level.. I wouldn't be happy with tht either 🙁

Oh that's depressing. That becomes even more about saying the right thing and ticking the right boxes rather than about a conversation with a person doesn't it.

When I lurk on linked in it seems lots of senior types do conversations but the bog standard jobs like I'd apply for are so prescriptive and random questions you wouldn't know unless you already do the job/are in that industry.

Someone on my FB just had a rant about a job interview. It was a video call with an AI bot! So not even a real person. And she failed it, so didn't even get to see a real person for a proper interview.

excatly and or are vague on hours, or its advertised as eg 9-5 but then its eg 7- 6 etc

I'm actually feeling a bit anxious I might never escape my current job 😞, that my skills aren't transferable and Im somhow not able to present myself in the way needed.

I'm finding this so much harder than it should be. I'm reasonably intelligent but I am struggling with interviews where they want you to know what you'd do in the role even though you haven't got it yet.

I learn fast, I can be trained.. Let me talk about me/my skills/what I do now.

I am feeling so deskilled.

What is even worse than the tediously long application process is the fact so many companies won't give a clue about roughly what salary they are offering.
It's obnoxious and such a waste of time

and ask it to write the answers in the style of eg a intelligence officer or office admin etc as then it gives a more base line human response

to be honest i wish it was just a basic here is the cv for the role, rather than hours for an application only for x company to read and go next so to speak, it seems quite inefficient process

Those automatic rejections are the worst, make you feel so worthless to be rejected by AI after putting in so much effort. I once applied for a job that was the same thing I was already doing (teaching on a coding course) and got an automatic rejection for ticking no on whether I have a teaching qualification.

trawling through applications can be just as depressing.

On the application side, I spent three months last year looking for a role, as PP said, more or less a full time occupation, I'm leaving for exactly the same reasons my predecessor did. Next role, I wasn't really looking, half hour on the application letter, single interview, start in a couple of weeks time.
THREE DAYS A WEEK 😛

I do think there's something in giving candidates interview questions in advance. Interviews should be a 'show how I'm the right person for this role' exercise, not 'guess what they might ask'.

For the last interview I had, they sent across links to their website saying that it would be useful prep. I dutifully studied their vision, structure, strategy, diversity policy, and god knows what else. The interview itself didn't have a single question about the company, just four on one specific area which wasn't named on the job description.

I did a whole application the other day and got to the end and it said if you’ve ever been sacked/asked to leave a job tick here, well as I’m pathologically honest I ticked yes, because I was sacked from my first job 30 years ago because the boss was a dick and didn’t like me. I got an instant rejection, no opportunity to explain the circumstances, if I’d had a criminal record I could’ve left it off after 30 years, but some power hungry dick can still affect me after all this time?!

Civil Service ones are the worst. I see so many people say that CS jobs are perfect for people leaving teaching but with teaching full time I don’t have the hours in the day to fanny around with their application bullshit. It all seems to be ‘guess what’s in my pocket’ anyway with them wanting you to list a load of stuff without actually giving you any clues what they actually want.

Use chat gpt then tweak where needed.

It's an enormous hassle at the other end for HR too, and it seems to take forever to recruit people. A lot of it seems to be just to generate material for arse-covering so that they have evidence to show why person "a" wasn't recruited, instead of leaving themselves open to an accusation of discrimination.

And then often a lot of people recruited still can't do the job anyway.