3 ms·

> The InFlight audit found that the average time to complete an application is 4 minutes and 52 seconds, with the large, legacy ATSs returning the longest appli

• dagw 4y ago
  "Why you want to work here?" A lot of people will write that once and then just copy paste everything over and over again. Some people believe that job searching is purely a numbers game and that 100 crappy applications is more likely to lead to a job than 5 well thought out ones. And for all I know they might even be right.
  • notch656a 4y ago
    In my experience they're right at least at the junior level. As a fresh grad I knew I was as shite as everyone else so I sent several thousand applications and then only put effort into the few that contacted me back. I think the more senior you get you are the one selecting and not the other way around, so it makes more sense to put the full effort in up front.
• ativzzz 4y ago
  > I usually take much more longer to known what to write in those damns forms "Why you want to work here?" usually takes me at least 20 minutes to write. I think this is only worth doing for companies you REALLY want to work at. for the other 95% just write a mostly generic two paragraph response and swap out the company name and your passion for the specific problem they are solving