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Ditto with job applicant portals. They have a bunch of weird features for doing obscure HR stuff like internal approval chains, but terrible UX for the actual

Ditto with job applicant portals. They have a bunch of weird features for doing obscure HR stuff like internal approval chains, but terrible UX for the actual applicant. Would it be so hard to handle applicants whose resume is a url?

dx87 7y ago
A couple of years ago, I was applying to work for a big government contractor, and even though they wanted to hire me, they couldn't figure out how to move forward past the "contigent job offer" phase in their new hiring software. I ended up taking a job somewhere else after going back and forth with HR for over a month as they tried to figure out things on their end.
- PopeDotNinja 7y ago
  I had a contract where the recruiter apologized in advance for the onboarding process. It started with not being able to create an account with the e-signature vendor with whom I had an old, deactivated account, and being unable to get the bureaucracy to send the paperwork to a different email address. It went downhill from there.
astura 7y ago
Yes, some job application portals are extremely clunky, however, the most common job application portal I've seen as a job seeker is iCIMS which I actually don't actually have any major complaints about. That's also what my current and former employeer uses. The name is certainly clunky though!
opportune 7y ago
Yeah, I believe it is Taleo where you have to re-enter all the info from your resume multiple times as you go through a 6 step portal. I absolutely hate that interface although thankfully most places I want to work at now don’t use it anymore I don’t know the name of it but I’ve seen a lot of places now with a single screen portal which I love, just enter your name, answer the self reporting crap, maybe select what position/location you’re interested in, drop your resume, and you’re done. I have no idea why that wasn’t the flow from the beginning.

dx87 7y ago

A couple of years ago, I was applying to work for a big government contractor, and even though they wanted to hire me, they couldn't figure out how to move forward past the "contigent job offer" phase in their new hiring software. I ended up taking a job somewhere else after going back and forth with HR for over a month as they tried to figure out things on their end.

PopeDotNinja 7y ago
I had a contract where the recruiter apologized in advance for the onboarding process. It started with not being able to create an account with the e-signature vendor with whom I had an old, deactivated account, and being unable to get the bureaucracy to send the paperwork to a different email address. It went downhill from there.

astura 7y ago

Yes, some job application portals are extremely clunky, however, the most common job application portal I've seen as a job seeker is iCIMS which I actually don't actually have any major complaints about. That's also what my current and former employeer uses. The name is certainly clunky though!

opportune 7y ago

Yeah, I believe it is Taleo where you have to re-enter all the info from your resume multiple times as you go through a 6 step portal. I absolutely hate that interface although thankfully most places I want to work at now don’t use it anymore I don’t know the name of it but I’ve seen a lot of places now with a single screen portal which I love, just enter your name, answer the self reporting crap, maybe select what position/location you’re interested in, drop your resume, and you’re done. I have no idea why that wasn’t the flow from the beginning.