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I've been filling out a lot of online forms lately.

Most of them utilize the Taleo HR software.

I HATE this software.

It is this quintessential BAD HR software.  It has a ton of nonsense fields and it has a very poor resume parsing engine.

For example, when you want to enter your street address, you have to start with the country.

Then the list dynamically reloads so that you have to pick the state.

Then the list dynamically reloads so that you have to pick the county.  THE COUNTY!  Seriously!?  What importance is the county to applying for a job!?

Then the list dynamically reloads again so that you have to pick the "closest metropolitan area".

You'd think that in Minneapolis/St. Paul that this would be "Minneapolis" or "St. Paul".  But it's not.  It's just a lame field label for "City".

Now, if you were going to design dynamically populating lists and whatnot, why not start with the ZIP Code?  I mean, seriously, the ZIP Code tells the system everything about the City, County, State, and Country in which you live.

Not that any of that should matter when you're applying for a job unless the company wants to discriminate against you from the get-go based on the city in which you live.

Then there's the Username field.  Now, the instructions specially state that you should use your email address your for Username field.  The next two fields are the password and confirming the password.  The last field is "Email Address".

Uhm, DUH!?

You already have it from the Username!