Stop stealing my time
I am currently job hunting.
I have done a lot of job hunting in my life. For one reason or another I have cycled through multiples jobs and several periods of unemployment. It has always sucked, but it has never sucked this much.
First, you see, you must apply. The days of uploading a CV/resume are over. You do need to upload your CV--but first you need to tailor it specifically to the job, make sure that you include keywords from the job advert to bypass any automated tools. Secondly, you need to repeat all that information into a form. Type it out, use date-pickers, rewrite the information to fit whatever arbitrary formatting requirements they have entered. This will all be done onto a job platform for which you will need to set up an account.
You may need to pass a psychometric quiz or some other kind of test at this point. Nominally, these are to test you have qualities for the role: actually they are just to weed out anybody who doesn't have an extra 30 minutes to spend applying to a job that they may never even have a shot at getting.
Assuming you pass this stage you will then have a phone call, most likely with a recruiter or some other third party. This is to check you are not a robot or an 'AI Agent', which are apparently applying to thousands of jobs a month on behalf of job-seekers.
You will then need to have an interview. It won't be pitched as an interview, it will be pitched as a 'chat' with a manager or someone connected to the role. You will prepare for it like an interview anyway. It will likely be on Teams. Because modern businesses all suck, the interviewer will likely be late and under-prepared.
Assuming they like you--and don't be fooled, this is not about your experience or your skills, this is about how likeable you are--you will be invited to a second interview. This may be with the first person. Again. More likely it will involve a couple of other people as well. You will answer all the same questions, but the interview will be longer. This might be on Teams, but it also might be in-person.
If it is in-person you will not be offered expenses for travel. Don't be silly.
At this point, the business will realise they should probably actually get serious about thinking who they want to hire. You will be invited to a third interview. This one might involve a Task™. The Task will need you to build a presentation to explain how you approached the Task.
At this point you will have invested something like 10 hours into getting this job.
You will be told they will get in touch 'early next week'.
You will never hear from the company again.