Havent looked for a job in about 10 years but even back then it was already loaded with these huge forms that you have to fill out which i loathe.
I get it that they want to automate stuff but how much would an extra employee or two cost to analyse the resumes? The scraping software is also not that cheap.
I guess it also says a lot about the companies itself if the first experience you have with them is using some shitty tool that nobody really wants to use.
Yes, please do. Spotting odd patterns in CVs is a good skill. Even with lots of garbage being funneled my way. The clearly hopeless or flat-out misplaced applications indeed do get rejected in seconds.
For one role I was hiring earlier this year, I noted how a few [recruiter fed] CVs had a striking similarity. Same set of skills in the exact same order. Same wording in the skill descriptions. All coming from the same geographic region. After the third I wrote a remark about the CVs looking either plagiarised or coming off of a weird template. Mentioned the similarity explicitly on the fourth one, with a slightly acidic comment about clearly being a wrong fit for the role.
Same. Oh, the wonderful difference between sending a small shop my resume by email with an in-email "cover letter", followed by an invitation to interview the next day, and submitting to a big company's convoluted, bug-ridden, idiosyncratic application procedure.
I get it that they want to automate stuff but how much would an extra employee or two cost to analyse the resumes? The scraping software is also not that cheap.
I guess it also says a lot about the companies itself if the first experience you have with them is using some shitty tool that nobody really wants to use.