Applying for a job through a corporate web portal- is this normal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work as a federal government contractor. I have worked for 6 contracting companies over almost 25 years with my agency. I have applied at probably an additional 10-12 companies and jobs. It became normal around 10-12 years ago in this industry. It used to be that you could forward a resume through another employee or manager and they could bypass the system. They could also get the hiring bonus. Now, even those applicants have to go through the web portal. Once through the web portal, an internal employee or manager can forward the name to either HR or the hiring manager, but resumes are not passed through anymore, only referenced after going through the portal.

You can thank all of the Executive Orders requiring the mass data collection and mandatory system use. It's the only way we can do your initial EEO intake, provide a pre-offer OFCCP form, post-offer OFCCP form, ask if your a Vet, what type of Vet, and oh please tell us if you have a disability! And all of it must be consistent for every single candidate so we can prove no one was discriminated in any possible way.

Nice way to conceal. One of the issues is that nowhere in the XO's do they require a salary history. That's something that employers have thrown in for their own personal benefit. And making it so that it is mandatory to include that information and trying to blame it on executive orders and mandatory data collection is obfuscation of a really foul request.

??? Who said anything about asking for salary? My firm doesn't collect it. Take your rage elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work as a federal government contractor. I have worked for 6 contracting companies over almost 25 years with my agency. I have applied at probably an additional 10-12 companies and jobs. It became normal around 10-12 years ago in this industry. It used to be that you could forward a resume through another employee or manager and they could bypass the system. They could also get the hiring bonus. Now, even those applicants have to go through the web portal. Once through the web portal, an internal employee or manager can forward the name to either HR or the hiring manager, but resumes are not passed through anymore, only referenced after going through the portal.

You can thank all of the Executive Orders requiring the mass data collection and mandatory system use. It's the only way we can do your initial EEO intake, provide a pre-offer OFCCP form, post-offer OFCCP form, ask if your a Vet, what type of Vet, and oh please tell us if you have a disability! And all of it must be consistent for every single candidate so we can prove no one was discriminated in any possible way.

Nice way to conceal. One of the issues is that nowhere in the XO's do they require a salary history. That's something that employers have thrown in for their own personal benefit. And making it so that it is mandatory to include that information and trying to blame it on executive orders and mandatory data collection is obfuscation of a really foul request.

??? Who said anything about asking for salary? My firm doesn't collect it. Take your rage elsewhere.

It's a shame that lawyers are no longer taught to read. The OP said

OP wrote:I'm an attorney and recently saw an in-house job that I am interested in applying for. The only way to apply is through the company's website, and the process seems bizarre to me. In addition to requiring each applicant to upload a resume and cover letter (totally normal), each applicant is required to fill out a "profile" that is roughly the equivalent of a federal background check questionnaire. For example, for every job I have held going back to high school, there are mandatory fields requiring the applicant to provide full address, beginning and ending salary, and supervisor's name, email and phone number. And you can't save the profile until every mandatory field has been completed! Much of the information is redundant to what is already provided on my resume, and I cannot figure out why a prospective employer is entitled to my lifetime salary history. There is also a disclosure that applicants' information may be searched by recruiters looking to fill positions other than the one the applicant is applying for. This is a reputable company, but honestly, the entire process feels a bit sketchy to me. I am currently an attorney at a federal agency, and this is much worse than anything I have encountered on USAJobs. Is this a typical job application process these days?

The OP is actually complaining about on-line job application portals that require full salary history. I added the anecdotal evidence that as a federal contractor, I have had to apply for jobs over 2 decades with multiple companies and that all of them now mandate providing salary history. This is NOT mandated by government demographic requests or executive orders, but is added by the companies for their own private reasons. It's unreasonable, but has now become industry standard. What thread were you reading when you replied?