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[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. "Do you want to fill out the application manually, or upload your resume?" You select the latter and upload your resume. Indeed loads the next page: "Please fill out your work history manually." You scream 20 times

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pro tip: for the workday applications with the manual forms, I have a separate file I upload without formatting that perfectly fills out the forms in the fields they want, then I upload a formatted resume.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That's genius!

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Cpoy and paste if you can and you need to