Job seekers today apply for open positions in many ways: on-site at job fairs, through networking and direct contacts, by sending resumes in the mail and by using online applications.

Mailing resumes and cover letters to potential employers has become less common these days, with more jobs asking candidates to apply online. While it may be easier and quicker to use the web, job ...

The online job application is your company’s first chance to impress — or scare away — a potential future employee.

Companies are rethinking the online job-application game, seeking quality over quantity.

Sixty percent of online applications are abandoned because they are too long, complicated and demand too much information from the job seeker.

The author recounts wading through endless online job applications, often with a small chance of in-person interviews. She shares the simple job-search routine that helped her impress employers ...

Filling online job applications is a war of attrition and patience, and a software engineer filled out 250 of them to find out why ...