Most of today’s job seekers have filled out an online application on a company’s website. These online applications ask candidates to input their personal and résumé information, usually in the form of drop-down menus and blank fields, which usually takes days to finish. That information then becomes part of a vast database of applicants, of whom only a lucky few are ever actually contacted by employers.
1) Online applications take too long to fill out
It’s funny how considering we are in the age of fast internet, and we have access to plenty plugins to fasten the signing up process in online products such as Gmail, Facebook andLinkedIn, job applications process require a painstaking long time to just type in all your details, which may not be all important in the pursuit of getting a job.
2) Candidates interact with a robot the whole time
After submitting an application, a bot email will inform us the next step of the application and assigns us a number ID, just like a prison system (tongue in cheek). The main point here is individuals are not given the opportunity to interact with an actual human being to ask for guidance/feedback on their application.
3) Candidates who apply online are often ignored
25% of survey respondents indicated that they never received employer acknowledgement of their last online application. Seniors and millennials appeared to be most likely of all age groups to be ignored by employers, with nearly 45% of seniors and 40% of millennials reporting that they didn’t get an employer response.
Note from Huiyi, TIA’s community manager:
Shahrul Sufian Hamdan is the founder of SenangKerja, an all in one job application platform for Malaysians.
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