Anyone who has recently applied for a job online knows the misery of first trying to register: figure out how to use them: how to upload and on and on.
Lonely and frustraing. Some of these sites sponsored by majore drivers like Taleo: you click and click and they keep refusing to accept your data: telling you item # 32 wasnt filled in: but you know you did.
I dont know how many candidates just pack it in..........and remember NOT to revisit that company to apply. The pain of using their applicant systems is just too great.
The return on investment of your time is just too low:
You know the odds of receiving an interview seems almost as bad as buying a winning lottery ticket.
And thats only if you figured out what the heck the job was to begin with:
Most posted jobs these days read like Performance Contracts
or applications to universities.......
Long paragraphs on
The Right Stuff: about the SuperMan/Woman you need to be to do this job.........
Long paragraphs on:
What YOU have to give.........and nearly nothing on what you will get in return.
Long paragraphs full of legal type English no one understands.
Hey: I am a great store manager: what is a Unified Business Directions Account Manager anyway?
And those prequalifying psychological tests: are you kidding me? You want ME to rule MYSELF out?
and how do I end up feeling if you dont call me?
that there is something wrong with me that is so great your firm will NEVER call me?
Hey:Mr HR just want to explore career opportunities with you.........not sign on for the Secret Service or marry your daughter!
Enough! Hell no: we just wont do it anymore!
Thats the message todays candidates are sending and they are fighting back.
Make my candidate experience a good one: or I will pass up your firm: FOREVER.
But then there is the Best Buy Canada career website: and Chad Steham:
Its the friendliest easiest to use career site in Canada........
Not only is it easy to use: it provides lots of helpful feedback features:
Like when can I expect to hear something?
They have managed to create a site that makes the candidate feel nearly human?
Chad regularily gets online and posts in a way that makes him approachable:
that makes you think: this would be a great place to work.
That you wont get hacked to death in the candidate process.
Hes light: hes funny: he encourages all comers: take a look at us!
Chad is a leader in the direction big retail needs to go in order to attract best talent to Retail.
Be sure to follow Chad on LInkedIn.
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