Undercover boss finds out just how evil graduate job applications are

oh you are kidding me I mean come on can we just get into the application like why oh my God there's another bloody form are you joking I'm just angry like what like what what genuinely why have a CV this is absolutely crazy I'm wasting just going mad picture the scene you are done with education you've got through school you've got through University or college you are absolutely ready for some fulltime adulting there is just one problem Society dictates that in order to have a really good crack at adulting you need this thing called money now money buys you way over in priced food it gives you the illusion that one day you may actually get on the property market and in order to get your hands on money you need this thing called a job now for graduates the most common way to do that is a graduate application program but all feedback I hear on all of that is that they are just Dreadful and so that is what today is all about to see just how bad they actually are the premise is very simple I will be going undercover and we'll be selecting three grad schemes and we'll be going through the process of applying to see exactly what it is like these grad schemes have all been completely randomly selected and cover three main industries specifically Finance technology and pharmaceutical so there are just two problems with my plan the first is that despite my youthful looks I am sadly no longer 21 the second problem is that and I've got my mom's voice in my head here my grades are just not good enough for a lot of these grad schemes so I need a workaround getting round the age problem was relatively straightforward I will do what people have been doing on dating apps for ages and I'll simply lie about my age the grades are a trickier problem whilst I could just make them up I didn't quite work for me as the whole point of doing this was to try and be as authentic as possible luckily a solution for this came in the form of my younger and far more talented sister I spoke to her and got her permission to use her grades for both school and education and utilizing a set of academic achievements I could only dream of I put together my CV thus Matthew pegler Was Born Killer grades in education a superb spread of experience in short the perfect graduate for any potential business looking it was time to get to work right here we go um I'm I'm actually quite excited by this you know um I you know I've never actually applied for a graduate scheme just even when I was a graduate I was one of those lucky ones who just obvious kind of got cracking um with other thing so I honestly couldn't tell you what I would be expecting but OB you hear so much about how much it is just an absolute pain in the ass so I think what we'll do is we'll just um apply for a few and I just see how it goes cuz honestly I can't tell you how much this is these have all been picked randomly okay where did I hear about this company I mean obviously Google where else would I heard it um you can include further details about how you heard about the opportunities I mean come on can we just get into the application like why so application one there's two points I want to flag right the first is the sheer length of it it was honestly ridiculous and I'm not even talking about the application part just the RS of information you have to fill out like you don't need all that nonsense mind I've not actually got to the application this is now this The Fifth Fifth form now I'm on to pre-university education it's on my CV why are you asking me this it just felt like so many different departments were just going oh can you throw that in can you throw that in can you throw that in and no one is thinking about The Graduate at all there it's really infuriating I've now got every school I kid you not I've got to find my school every school Britain is on this dropdown and I'm having to sort of dig around for it were you referred for this presed by someone who's a current client or prospective client no again what followed was me saying no one after another question after question to the most ridiculously detailed and unnecessary interrogation have you ever worked for these companies no again graduate program do you have any close family members who work for their competitors no you have any extending Financial arrangments with affiliations to these my God no Let It Go are you serving on the board of directors what it's a graduate application no no no again do do you have any live or unspent convictions for any criminal offense no we won't go into that now but I'm not convinced a criminal record should necessarily I'm sure it should in some cases but it should automatically disqualify you would be my point okay I kid you not this is probably the 10th 11th form I've now got to fill in oh now they ask for my resume that I've just filled out the whole resume for you here I hear by that understanding L to all the stat with the employee application and I've truthfully responded to all questions in the employment application sure this was when a complication arose the application required me to do a video interview where I would talk to a blank screen and it would record me with my answers in which they would ask various questions to get around this I decided that I would just simply pretend I was a 21-year-old graduate and would ask the questions as though my CV was completely accurate yeah that's better yeah I mean In fairness I now look like I'm in witness protection so I will I'm not convinced this is going to work personally if I saw this video with me with this silhouette I would be considered quite ominous now as this was my first interview for over 10 years nerves were jangling and I really needed everything to work well audio's failed how's my audio failed please make sure your mic is I mean what bear in mind this is the laptop I used for many calls from my actual business this like why on Earth is this not working the video interview was a very simple setup it would basically have two or three questions and for each question I would have 3 minutes to prep now the smart thing would have been to actually use those 3 minutes to prep but by this point I was so hacked off I decided to fully utilize them to complain Instead This is honestly Bonkers like the amount of effort and time that's gone into this is just crazy like the questions continued and as I didn't have the background my CV suggested I decided to approach the questions with the age-old strategy of flattering and it's about learning from the most qualified and the most skillful in the country really and complete and utter lies I actually wrote a series of children's stories about the ancient Greeks uh picking up on specific ancient civilizations so did one on the Minoans did one on Sparta did one on the feens and then actually sort of went up north as well don't call it an interview it's not an interview you're just talking into a black screen black void an interview requires someone putting in a bit of effort on on their side I was doing all of the leg work so don't call it any few and second I just don't quite bias I don't feel that was particularly useful I don't know what information they get from it if you want to meet me actually call me up and have a conversation with me don't try and get an AI program to kind of run it for you so yeah look I'm going to have to give it a 4 out of 10 and let me tell you it can bloody well thank me for that 4 out of 10 cuz I do think that's quite generous basically a content creator at this point that's one application and that's taken I mean that's taken about an hour actually considering I had to write all that up the amount of forms I had to I can't get my head around it that's just crazy that can't be the best way to do it application 2 was probably the most frustrating and what I mean by that is the sheer amount of manual input that was required for this application was just mind-blowing Matthew's confidence has taken absolute battering here I tell you what so they expect all successful highs to achieved a minimum score degree level how are we expecting to achieve this score yes or no well that's not a yes or no question how you are expeced to I was going to put yes I've personal detail I've just registered how did you not have this oh I mean look it's just I know this sounds like really sort of complaining over nothing but it is quite infuriating when I've just registered filled out all my name adly not where real name but all my name and everything like that and then they immediately ask for it to be again under personal details like that's just quite annoying writing out my own name six or seven times like do you know how easy the technology to remember and fields are you import from all these different places it's so straightforward so the fact that they've not invested in it properly shows one they just don't care or two it's just lazy cuz those are the only it's so easy to kind of tweak the system to allow it to make it so much more straightforward for graduates to fill out please list okay are you joking okay this is genuinely what it says please list all of your examinations and results from age 15 onwards are you like oh my my God that's so annoying and and oh my I mean it makes it worse cuz they actually making you list every you can't even just write like you know nine GCS or something like you've got to write everyone got to write the school the examination the subject and the grade that's so infuriating cuz I I bet you at the end of this one they go just pop your CV in there which has all of this already like this I I know I'm trying to be slight like complaining a lot here but like this is actually quite infuriating you're a 21y old kid you I'm lucky I'm not this but you're 21- year old kid you've just graduated you you're excited you're excited about your career and you start applying for like this and oh my God this is just so destroying this how naive I am and I'm so sorry graduates if you're going through this I thought this would be quite interesting to do I'm just angry what like what what genuinely why I have a CV like genuinely what is the point of a CV please let your degree what's okay is asking me okay okay I K these are the three questions I have it's ask me to name my academic area of study that is asking to me a name my degree course and then it's asking me to select my degree category like how are those three not the same question and why just going mad oh my God uh right oh there were my CV the irony so the fact that you know the questions were okay but the sort of sheer effort it took just to get the right information in was just driving me up the wall um and so I can I literally I cannot give it more than a three out of 10 pharmaceutical application yet I've calmed down those first two um I mean once I calm down I'll talk about it properly but it's so annoying like I'm so in simply the graduates like the fact they having to do this because there's no way anyone of a seniority of you know middle management above has ever done one of these applic there's no a chance they've done this properly because like there's so many obvious things you could streamline make easier and sort out um but anyway I'm set up a new account start your application autofill with resume okay here we're talking now we're talking okay this is interesting so give give me the option to autofill with resume which fair play if they've done that fair play that's actually really good if I was to generally give any feedback is it's this constant asking where you hear about us and asking for way too much detail and make it compuls so they've asked me where I heard of it I've put social network and they've asked me for Which social network like it's just like come on let's just get on with it application three is getting the worst score from me and the reason for that is two the first is it was just as annoying as the other two in the sense of the forms were so long so much unnecessary information and we had to cut so much nonsense of me just scrolling through all this sort of stuff the amount of sort of information that they were acquired was just so unnecessary and all that sort of thing uh are you currently a government official every grad scheme is asking whether I'm a government official or not is that really a grad scheme question like I don't know do government officials apply for these types of jobs or all I don't know okay well this autofill resume thing is looking like a little bit of a red herring this turned out to be an absolute understatement as this autofill CV technology worked about as well as the American Healthcare System I'm scrolling through every single possible degree you could do and it's taking years like just let me type in history like why are we around like this add languages so again like I'm still typing out everything I'm not that impressive be around it sort of dangled this carrot of um autofill CV it got one word right it got the university everything else I had to fill in that manually but the reason why it's the worst is because it pretends that it was an easy process and what I mean by that is it kept s dangling the carrots of oh it's got an autofill CV we just scan your CV and all that information will be imported it bloody well was not important I still had to write the whole bloody thing out and it really started to hat me off okay this one is right up there so okay I've submitted all the applications it's now onto a category that's called voluntary disclosures voluntary disclosures and every single field is marked with a red Aster meaning I have to complete them honestly you can't can't make this up this is absolutely mindblowing when young when sort of graduates and people say that the process doesn't work like we have to start listening to them this is absolutely crazy I'm wasting so much of my life filling out nonsense I do it do it also had this sort of thing where go oh look you know we've got this little survey if you don't mind fing out it's completely voluntary and then it'll make every single one mandatory until and wouldn't let me submit my application until I filled out all this sort of thing I acknowledge that my response are accurate and complete okay I will say this they are as accurate and complete as your autofill uh CV applications I think we're both kind of kidding each other now so I'm just going to go with that companies like this where they basically kind of try and take all the credit of having a Forward Thinking easy system to use and they absolutely not delivering on it it's right up with the most toxic behavior and it's absolutely getting the worst score for me and that score is 1 oz of 10 so if I have to summarize this I'd say two things firstly business is if you genuinely want my advice nominate one executive a year to go through the application program and just have a see what it's actually like because honestly and I'm you know talking about myself as much as anything else I've not done application for 12 years it is just unacceptable I really mean that it's just not good enough I picked three totally at random and they were all incredibly annoying and so it we just have to do better we can't all you know people come out of University it's going to be an excited time with their lives it's not fair we're putting them through stuff like that it really isn't like it genu I thought it'd be interesting it just hacked me off like it really was infuriating and because they feel they have to do it we just then we just get away with it as company so it's just not good enough um so yeah makes pick someone nominate them make them go through the process and then tell them if you think it's a good setup graduates just ignore a lot of these big companies like make them earn their graduates don't let them assume they're going to get you go through all the smaller companies which have much smoother processes

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Published: Fri Dec 08 2023