Don’t waste your energy use it
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006I am trying to fill in an application form on said website. The company offers five graduate schemes including one for IS. Which probably menas Information Science?? Registering is easy, logging in as well. They tell you to read the help available, but there is none available or I maybe I haven’t found it yet.
Filling in the form is easy too. There is a save button every now and then, which lets you save the form so that you can take breaks and then come back and continue filling it in. Next to the save button is a “printer friendly” button which should call a pdf generator to generate a printer friendly pdf. But not much seems to happen. This could be for a variety of reasons, I am using Firefox on Linux. Not that it should play a role as the pdf is generated on the server. Switching to Windows and Firefox has similar results. The pdf cannot be generated. Nothing happens. Internet Explorer 6 should solve the problem, but no, it won’t work either.
When trying to leave the application form I am looking for a logout button/link. But none is available and it is necessary to click another link or close the window. Upon logging in again it is possible to go back to the application form or generate a html or pdf version. PDF versions do not work on any browser/OS combination tested. Generation of the html form results in broken html in firefox. It is a mess and cannot be used for printing. Explorer is better at handling the broken html and I was finally able to print the application form out.
This experience makes me think that the company is short of web designers and usability engineers. There might be a job open for me.