Bad Websites Are Bad
Dear People With Bad Websites,
In case you hadn't noticed, Bad Websites are not very good.
Now, if it's for promotional purposes, such as a personal website or a website advertising your business, then I don't care if it's bad. The only person suffering from your Bad Website in this situation is you. Everyone else will just not use your Bad Website.
But if you are, say, employing many thousands of people and the only way to apply for a position is through a horrendously lengthly web form, then you seriously need to sort out your Bad Website.
If you are employing on such a scale that a web form is mandatory, then you can probably afford to hire a better web designer to make sure that the boxes on your form line up properly with the questions. Or that your web form doesn't ask for contradictory pieces of information. Or that it doesn't take a full half-hour to notice that you've completed it.
Oh, and if you have to include some sort of condescending multiple-choice exam/interview thing, please take the time to ensure it doesn't include questions that are actually wrong.
Or if you can't be bothered about this, how about letting candidates talk to an actual person, letting them give the correct information in roughly half the time it takes to fill out your broken web form. That way, you might even get answers that reflect a candidate's competency at something other than hammering the 'next' button.
Wouldn't that be nice?
