I think this was mentioned, but it need to vent… Dear Taleo, is it really necessary for you to require a defense depArtment strength password for me to apply on your inconsistent website? What purpose does the extraction serve if I need to correct most of the fields in experience…and why on earth, why,why, would I EVER chose to disclose if I were disabled or bit polar on a job application (I’m not, but an hour of this nonsense can drive a man insane!).
Ah, Taleo. How that product ever gets bought is a mystery. I had to apply for a couple of jobs on it once, and I’m this close to using it as a filtering out system - if your job requires me to have anything to do with Taleo, you aren’t the sort of company I want to work for. Or have anything to do with. Or even allow to exist, if I was king of the world and had my way.
Can I extend this pitting to all “business management” software: Salesforce, SuccessFactors, EmployEase, &c? All annoyingly crappy and awkward to use. Their business models are strongly based on “the people buying our software are not the ones who are going to be using it themselves, but they have the power to compel other people to use it”. I was better web interfaces and workflows in 1998.
Taleo always refused to correctly auto-fill my resume information when I would upload it. I’d always have to go back and cut & paste the information so that it’d populate the correct boxes, making the process 5x more laborious than if I manually entered the information from scratch.
It got to the point that, whenever I saw a company’s application website used Taleo, I’d think twice about if I really thought I had a chance at the job, and if it was worth the effort.
Oh christonabike, Salesforce. vomit I may have to switch from JIRA to Salesforce to track client inquiries because apparently the client services people can’t learn JIRA and Salesforce. JIRA has its own problems, but jesus…it’s not salesforce.
Let’s not forget some of the other ‘features’ of this, ummm, wonderful program:
The question that asks “how did you hear about this position?” When you choose ‘internet’ it then (slowly) adds an additional required question about which jobsite, but I’m usually at the bottom of the screen before it comes up so when I press <Next> alarm bells flash & blink telling me I must be an absolute moron because I didn’t answer every single important question on the page. Does any HR dept even use this info to limit where they place ads as it’s on every Taleo site I’ve ever used. There’s no point in forcing the collection of data if it’s not used.
Your online resume is built with most recent job history at the top but if you add a new position it goes at the bottom & you must move it up One. Job. At. A. Time. Then the screen refreshes to the top so you have to scroll down to find it before moving it up one position again. :smack: Ummm, why not either sort work history by the 4 separate date fields you made me enter & or just make any new positions when it’s updated to be at the very top as most people don’t go back to edit to add a job from 5 or 10 years ago.