Too Much Info Requested to Apply 4

[YoungTurk]

I've recently been doing some passive job searching. Basically just testing the waters as the job market comes back to life.

Here's the question - for one company I'm interested in the online application process requires you fill in a "profile" before you can apply to a job. The profile requires information, and LOTS of it. And its REQUIRED. In addition to the somewhat standard stuff like criminal history, it asks for lots of career information. The kind of stuff I would consider giving out AFTER someone spoke to me about interest in a specific position. Like: How much do you make? How much did you make at your last job? Why did you leave there? Give us your references, at least three.

I'm not in need of a new job, so I'm turned off enough to not apply. I recall seeing something like this when I applied to some of the big boys after graduation some years ago. Thought it was odd then.

But now that I have an actual career to discuss (and protect), I'm wondering if this is acceptable, or even standard?

 

[berkshire]

Sometimes HR can do a company in:
A little anecdote, about 9 years ago I was getting dissatisfied with the company I was with. Another company nearby was hiring, the word on the street was that they were having a hard time finding qualified personnel.
I sent them a resume and got called in for an interview.
When I got there HR gave me an application form and asked me to fill it in. I filled the form with the usual personal information, then got to the section about prior employment, I filled in the last two jobs which covered about eight years and in the next space put "please see attached resume.", and clipped a resume to the application form.
When I got called in to the interview room the interviewer, a female,sat me down like a two year old child and proceeded to tear me a strip about not filling in the application form fully and completely .
I apologised profusely, took the form and said I would complete it, left the building and tore the form up.
I then interviewed with another company who could not have been more pleasant and got a job.
Nine months later, the company I was working with, bought out the first company, who were losing money, because they could not get qualified people to work for them.
I related my story, about my dealings with the HR department of the company we had just bought to my boss who was vice president of the company I was now with. He verified my experiences with a couple of our other people who had tried to work there.
The result was that the entire HR department of the first company was let go in the takeover.
B.E.

 

[Noway2]

So walk away. They don't owe you an acceptable offer. Don't blub if they don't offer it.

That is what happened. My point is that this was a NEEDLESS waste of MY time, which to me is valuable. I was up front with this information in the very first hour of the interview process. They should have realized right then and there that there was too much of a financial disjoint and not even bothered.

I was just pleased as all hell to see that they weren't able to fill the position after my experience with them. Some of these companies need to get off their soap boxes and take a double dose of a reality pill. They wanted someone with a level of qualification beyond which they were willing to pay.