Why do companies make it so difficult to apply for jobs?

[u/crillydougal]

Nobody likes it, even the people creating these sites. Every single company seems to have a different website to create a ‘profile’ to apply.

[u/Ethicaldreamer]

They're getting overwhelmed by thousands of automated irrelevant CV submissions. So now they have layer upon layer of processes or counter AI to skim through them. I do wonder if it's just time to start contacting people directly or even show up in person, to ensure your application at least passes the [ishuman?] filter

[u/great_whitehope → u/Ethicaldreamer]

Even the non-automatic ones, a lot of applications are from people in countries where they need the employer to sponsor a visa that they don’t want to do.

[u/WankstainJapsEye → u/great_whitehope]

Friend of mine works in recruitment in a large tech company and said for any role they just get spammed by Indians.

Said even on say French and German speaking sales role it’s just 90% Indians with no relevant skills 

[u/CondescendingTowel]

From what I’ve seen mentioned here, it’s because people make it difficult for their application to be filtered out and with LLMs it’s become easier to game the system. Setting some sort of barrier to applying is a rudimentary way of keeping the numbers down.

The (potential) reward for putting up with it is getting an interview.

[u/Relevant-Bobcat-2016]

It's purely to ensure only serious applicants apply rather than anyone uploading their cv as a punt. It also ensures that applications are uniform in format rather than many different types of cv's being sent in which also takes time to analyse.

[u/Mindless_Let1 → u/Relevant-Bobcat-2016]

Meanwhile 99% of hiring managers click the "open CV" button instead of reading the normalized data

[u/Irish_and_idiotic → u/Mindless_Let1]

Please tell me you are joking…

[u/Mindless_Let1 → u/Irish_and_idiotic]

Haha, unfortunately not. Myself and every manager I know just goes direct to the CV, usually after scrolling past all the fields Workday so helpfully forces you to waste your time on

[u/Irish_and_idiotic → u/Mindless_Let1]

Jesus fucking Christ..

[u/ZiiiSmoke → u/Mindless_Let1]

I actually don't know anyone who filled out those fields. Myself included. just upload CV and off you go.

[u/Mindless_Let1 → u/ZiiiSmoke]

This is what I'd prefer too, but generally we need to let the recruiter do the initial screening (no time to look through 300 CVs for a role) so they might toss you if you didn't fill it out. Annoying process

[u/Lunateeck]

Funny thing is… real, serious companies will always make it easier for the candidate. But the shite ones will make sure to put people off with 1000 different steps that have to be manually inputted without an option to pull the info from linkedin.

[u/donalhunt]

I'm sending a pastry box with my CV, next time there's a role I'm semi-interested in. Higher odds of getting engagement. 😢

[u/Far_Cut_8701]

The worst I have ever seen was the UCC job applications. I think I spent more time doing the application than time speaking with them in an interview

[u/rzet]

...because they can. :/

[u/alancusader123]

there are no jobs bro