Job Hunting Online: Escaping the Nine Circles of Application Hell

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ABC -- Next to dwindling unemployment benefits and recruiters who don’t return phone calls, the biggest gripes I hear from job seekers are about the online job application process. Either the systems crash and lose all the brilliant answers you’ve just spent the past two hours inputting. Or they request personal information you wouldn’t even give in a face-to-face interview, like your social security number. And, more often than not, there’s no confirmation that your data was actually received.

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