application forms. yay

[burntcopper]

appear to be cursed. 90% of all arts institutes want your application done on an application form, no CVs accepted.

Which means at least 30-45 mins of tedious cut and pasting or re-wording (that's if I'm lucky and it's a doc file - I'm avoiding the pdf ones for the mo). And that's just the stuff that's nicely formatted and laid out on your cv already. Which is *before* you even get to the bloody statement. I missed the application deadline (noon today) for a bfi one yesterday because I discovered it at 11pm last night when I was already knackered and couldn't take the amount of concentration of making sure I had everything in the right boxes - and that I hadn't missed a relevant box. Writing the covering letter I could've done. The little boxes would've done me in.

I've yet to see the benefit of spending bloody ages filling out a 5-page minimum application form as opposed to one cv and a covering letter with any extra relevant info they ask for.

Comments

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Just off the top of my head, since they're art institutes, they might get a bunch of CVs printed on black paper with sparkly bits on them with long-winded covers about the reasons for art in society or chakras or inner-muse channeling or something like that. While I'm sure *your* cover letter and CV are professional and easy to read, the application form makes sure that the administration gets all of the relevant information that they require without having to search for it.

Bummer that you found this out at the last minute, though. I sympathize.

[narrauko.livejournal.com]

I hate, Hate, HATE application forms. So far as I can work out it's just to put people who aren't sure about the job off from applying. What it actually does though is make me want to stab things. Woe.