You need specialized training in order to fill out an online application. Such a shame this company isn’t hiring usability specialists — they could use a team of them!!!
PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING. Please complete both the Personal Details and the Qualifications pages. You will need to use the links to the left of your screen to move from the Personal Details page to the Qualifications page. Before moving on to the next page be sure to click on the OK Button at the bottom of each page to save your information. Whenever you see the “Up Arrow” icon you must click on the “Up Arrow” icon, select GO on the next page and a list of values will appear. Locate your information and click on it. DO NOT type any information in those fields. If you type information in those fields your data will be lost. Never use the browser Back Button. This will cause an error and you will lose your information. You will need to logout and then log back in. Instead use the links on the left side of the page, the Blue Tabs at the top of the page or the buttons at the bottom of the page for navigation. You will have an opportunity to update your information at any time. Dates are to be entered in the following format 01-Jan-2003 or you may use the attached calendar to pick your date.
Was this intelligible to anyone else? This is what happens when you let the programmers write the copy to go with their pages, and you let them build a system that works but isn’t terribly easy to use. Good grief.
“What do you mean it’s hard to use? WE can use it!”
*eyeroll*
geeeze, If I went someplace, and had to go through all that crap, …well, as soon as I made a mistake (and you just ~knoooow~ I would
I’d say “FORGET THIS!”
*G* and yep, I understood it, but heaven forbid, my mother would have been swimming in circles (and most other people I know for that matter) with the confusion of ‘don’t touch this button, only touch that button, and stick you finger up your a.. oh, well, sorry, that part was what the Programmers were doing