Advantages: Gives the employer the exact information they are seeking from you.
Disadvantages: Very tedious and lengthy to complete sometimes!

...Having worked in the HR industry for over 10 years now, I feel some degree of the knowledge gained may be of relevance to people who view the completion of application forms in relation to applying for jobs as a tedious task. Application forms are a more and more common way for firms to recruit as they can create their own application forms to extract just the right amount of information they require to call people in for interviews. Always make a photocopy of the original and work on the photocopy itself before transferring to the original form as it really does NOT look good if you have mistakes and crossings out or tipp-ex blobs all over an application form. A benefit of using application forms in the recruitment process is that it's a fair way of comparing people's experience and qualifications to get the best person... Read review

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Advantages: Can be very helpful in getting a job
Disadvantages: A real hassle to complete

...Job hunting can be a pain at the best of times. Even when you've only got to write a simple covering letter and put it with your CV, it's bad enough, but there is a worse experience – the dreaded application form. Many job applications, particularly within the public sector, will demand that you complete an application form, a device which has brought untold terror to millions. Forms in general are bad enough, but when you need to fill one out describing all your experience and skills and trying to sell your qualities to a prospective employer, they can assume the proportions of a life threatening monster. However, they're very much a necessary evil of modern day life and you can't ignore them, they won't go away, so you better get used to them and find a way to deal with them. The key thing you must remember, no matter how... Read review

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Advantages: Can help you gain employment if done well.
Disadvantages: Take a long time to do. Each application form can be different.

...Application forms can be far worse than covering letters and CV’s, and can take a lot longer. However I am going to give you some tips from my extensive experience in filling them out on how to speed up the filling in process, as well as how tell employers the information about you they want to know. I will first give you some general tips on how to fill an application form in, then some general tips on what to put, then I shall finish up by running through the different sections you can expect to find in an application form and explain what you should put in each. General Tips on how to fill in the form. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Photocopy the application form so you can practice writing out your answers. An alternative to this is to write the answers in pencil lightly first, then go over this in pen after you have... Read review

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Advantages: See op
Disadvantages: See op

...I'm writing this op from the perspective of at times having been both a prospective employee and as someone taking part in recruitment. How you complete your application form is an essential element of applying for a job. No matter how brilliant or capable you are, you will never be given your chance to shine in an interview if you don't catch the attention of your potential new employer from the outset. Back when I was last jobhunting, it was particularly worrying to know that whichever job I was applying for there would probably be loads of other applicants, and probably several with more or better experience than me. How on earth would I have the chance to compete? Having now seen the process from the other side, I know that the odds are probably not stacked against you as much as you may think. In my experience, sometimes... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic School
Disadvantages: I miss out on new building

...--------------------------- Lets start with some statistics shall we! This is all from our head teacher and it's all going to be a little bit bias methinks. I expect that he's hidden the bad statistics. But in my year, both our Y11 GCSE and our Sixth Form AS levels were well above the national average in their results. Firstly, 98% of the school passed 5 GCSE's. Only 4 people failed to achieve 5 GCSE's. Around 70% got 5 A*-C grades in their GCSE's. This, if you look at the average, is fantastic. Our A level results also consistently out-perform all the local colleges, bar Cirencester, which I don't count as a local college anyway. However, we are close. Our results are not the best in Swindon though. Two schools out-perform us on raw results for GCSE consistently. However, we are consistantly higher, much higher, in our value added ratings. We... Read review

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Advantages: you have much more scope to impress than with a CV
Disadvantages: takes more time and effot

...Application forms are often used in appointments to public and voluntary sector positions, the idea being that it levels the playing field and creates more equal opportunities, than scrutinising CVs which could have been written by an agency or adviser. However, you can be ‘more equal than others’ by having an understanding of the shortlisting process and how the application form is used. I hope my experiences on both sides of the process will be helpful to members – at the end of the day you will succeed or fail on your merits, but you can give yourself some advantages at the outset. Typically you will receive the following: an application form, a job description, a person specification, and possibly some advice about completing the form. You may also get an equal opps monitoring form and some policy documents... Read review

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Advantages: A good application form will get you the interview
Disadvantages: A bad application form will get you a rejection letter

...If your application form is filled in well, that job can be yours. But you have to make sure you follow some simple points. 1 Read the questions carefully and use the right colour ink. Many forms will say use Block Capitals and Black ink. If you can't even follow simple written instructions like this on an application form, you are less likely to be considered for an interview. 2 There is never a need to lie on an application form. The form is designed for the interviewer to get information about you before even seeing you. Your hobbies, for example, most interviewers will be interested in what your hobbies are. Just because you think Stamp Collecting is embarrasing, for a job that involves detailed work, it can be to your advantage. 3 Be truthfull about your past employment, nowadays most companies will take up... Read review

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Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

...Having filled in a number of application forms for a wide variety of jobs, I feel that I know just what an employer