is honestly so frustrating. It's like you have this resume, only for them to make you input everything all over again into their website, and then it goes into "NoWhereLand"! I have been heavily applying for almost 4 weeks now with barely any phone calls. My resume is on point, I have the education/experience but I'm stuck in limbo. Ugh. #applications #jobsearch #nowhereland

This is a good article to read. It speaks truth the chaotic cycle of recruiting.

Here are some of the biggest problems in recruiting, and recommendations for fixing them:

Job ads are ridiculous. They list endless "Essential Requirements" that few if any living people possess. To fix job ads, HR people who know the talent market should make sure that job ads are realistic and that the jobs they're hiring for pay the right amount. No job ad should ever be published unless it's based in reality. Every job ad should have a salary range in it.

Job ads are written as though their principal aim is to keep people from applying (in case they're not perfectly qualified)! Anybody who posts a job ad that refers to The Selected Candidate -- addressing prospective candidates in the third person as if to signal to them "The selected candidate couldn't possibly be you!" should not be writing job ads. The way we "invite" candidates into the hiring process is repulsive. We make them fill out online job applications loaded up with warnings about leaving any field blank or misrepresenting any tiny detail. In short, we treat job applicants like criminals. Your application process is a window to your corporate soul. To fix this enormous problem, we need to move away from Applicant Tracking Systems as a screening tool, and evaluate resumes and LinkedIn profiles instead. The way we treat candidates in the pipeline is disgraceful. Fearful HR leaders hide behind pointless and insulting pre-employment tests and questionnaires instead of reaching out and engaging with real people who could help the company thrive.

To fix the candidate-neglect-in-the-pipeline problem, every company needs to examine its recruiting process from the candidate's point of view. There are unexplained and unacceptable gaps, delays and talent-repelling steps in nearly every corporate and institutional hiring pipeline. Find and eliminate the roadblocks in yours! The way we communicate with candidates during their recruiting process is horrible. We would never treat a customer, vendor or friend of the company as badly as we treat candidates every day. We make them wait weeks between communications. We send them terse email messages with new instructions to follow and no encouragement that their efforts will be worthwhile.

To fix this problem, we need to examine our candidate communications and stop assuming that talented people will wait forever while we slog through the thousands of bureaucratic steps in our outdated recruiting systems.

Recruiting is easily the most broken corporate practice (with performance review a close second). It is shameful how badly most medium-sized and large employers treat the talented people who apply for jobs with them. If managers don't get the message, their competitors will leave them in the dust.

It's time for employers to wake up and smell the new-millennium talent market coffee. Unemployment is down. Talented candidates won't tolerate being treated like dirt anymore. Can we blame them?

Source: http://www.certifiedemployment.com/article/listen-up-employers-job-applicants-are-tired-of-being-treated-like-dirt.php

I'm looking for full time or part time work.. I was a sales associate at Walmart for two and half years.. I know the register, jewelry apparel, domestics, housewares or where ever they needed me.. I was hired as a apparel associate. I need a job badly.. I live in acworth Georgia.. Please help.. I've been putting apps in everywhere and nothing.. I have two children to take care of and they come first.

I need a job here in Biloxi,Mississippi. Are they not hiring at all? I put in applications but, nothing is coming through. I wish someone would see this. I’m looking for a day shift job and making tons. #ineedajob #beingterminatedisbad #jobseeker

I have applied to a company thru an online application but heres my problem and I had no idea whatsoever? Somehow my email has been blacklisted? Their computer system is saying that they have recieved my email and info. But after going back and looking at my "sent" emails my account is saying that it attempted for three days to get my info thru into their system thus voiding any further attempts. This is exactly why I think the whole online application, interviewing system is total bullshit! I have over 25 years experience in this job field but a person cant sit down face to face and one on one and share and show firsthand just how experienced a person is in any field and prove their beyond worthy of a chance at getting the job! Sorry my rant is over!!! Lol! Is there anybody out there anywhere that can show,help or direct me in the right direction to the easiest and fastest way to get my IP and email removed from this blacklist so that I wont miss out or be looked over when trying to get another damn good job being dangled in front of my face and not be able to do a damn thing about it?? AHEAD OF TIME IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME THANKS A BAZILLION!!!

So I know sometimes it can be hard to get the job you want. Trust me I know. But one tip that I've learned from experience is to apply for multiple positions for that job and eventually you'll hear a response based off your ready to work attitude. I hope this is valuable information and good luck to you.

the job application of the present as well as future is on-line and contains not only company and job -specific information,but also contains psychological tests/assessments as well for the purpose of seeing what the potential candidate is like mentally and how they interact with others etc.. then,both state and federal governments have their paperwork to do as well,stuff like w2s, earned income tax credit etc.. these supposed applications are very long on computer time and if something goes wrong with the computer that one is using,most often one has to re-start the questionnaire,not application over.

How many views, or applicants does an average employer need before hiring selection?

I currently work 2 jobs have probably submitted over 10,000 applications in 5 years since I graduated college and not one company will give me a shot. I have met with executives in one company multiple times and have submitted 85 applications and I am qualified only to receive a rejection email. I fear I will be stuck doing this forever. I deserve better than this.

I graduated last year, and I have yet to be even looked at by any company despite my constant flow of applications. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I just hate feeling trapped in this purgatory...