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I've been looking for a job recently, and almost every applicant tracking system I've been shoved through requires an account. The ones that use "vanity" domain
by metaloha 3y ago
I've been looking for a job recently, and almost every applicant tracking system I've been shoved through requires an account. The ones that use "vanity" domains (like `companyname.superats.com`) require a unique account for each of those domains. I have something like 40 new accounts on services I'm never going to use regularly or consistently once I succeed, just in the last couple of months :( A few of those jobs actually required that I go through a specific resume-crafting-via-AI service with no other way to apply.
Now I get emails from at least a dozen services several times a week saying I'd be a perfect fit for positions that are in-office but not in my province (or even country sometimes), that are not things I'm interested in (retail lead in a piercing shop, for example), and are not things I'm even remotely qualified for (chemical engineer has popped up a couple of times, weirdly).
Not only do these systems suck, they're invasive, annoying, and counter-productive to the job searcher in many cases. If I could only have "guest" access to apply for that specific job....
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoBut from their perspective accounts are awesome, they get to build a contact base that can be monetized (in some way I'm guessing). You pain is someone else's profit!