How do I create a generic resume through Taleo?

Hi. Since so many companies are using Taleo I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to simplify the application process. For example, is it possible to create a generic (resume) template on Taleo and transfer/copy that info over to the specific companies that are hiring, rather than registering for a separate account with each and every company? I looked on Taleo's website but didn't find any info on this topic.

Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Yes and no. Taleo has a site at talentexchange.com for setting up a candidate profile, but most firms have customized versions of applicant tracking systems like Taleo. The required fields are going to be very different depending on the employer. Your best bet is to use an IE or Firefox app extension like InFormEnter that let's you fill in forms based on saved information. Or create a text file based on your resume info and then cut and paste.

To IBelieve: I also want to know the answer to your question. Why can't they just create a basic template that lists job titles, salaries, company names, and education so that information can be on a resume that is uploaded to each company's Taleo site. That way the key information is picked out of the resume and it saves the user time in re-entering the same information.

Taleo SUCKS!!! It screws up my resume every time. Companies PLEASE STOP using taleo!!!!

Taleo is one of those most user unfriendly sites I've ever seen. Using it is like Chinese water torture.

Even though you're applying to different companies, if they use Taleo you have to use the same email, user name and password each time. If you don't, you can't continue into the system.

If you do happen to get your name, email and password right, then you wade into the muck of the online application system. You'll find certain fields won't take. You'll find you constantly have to go back and change fields because they won't take. You'll have to upload your resume. Then, you'll have to cut and paste both, and the formatting will be lost.

If you somehow have the patience and the system allows you to proceed, you'll have it finished in about 45 minutes.

Then, when you want to send another resume to a totally different employer and they use Taleo, you won't recall your user name, password or email.

It's so maddening. Is it all a test? Or is it just torture?

Employers, Taleo is a horrible, outdated system. Get rid of it.

Whenever I see the "Powered by Taleo" logo, I just skip the job.

Taleo can take in 1,000 apps and in seconds, spit out the "Top Ten". You have to have a perfect work history to make it through.

Same problems with Taleo.

Create a "Universal Profile". When you see the UP icon on the sign-in page, click it. Makes your subsequent submissions much simpler. Follow the instructions, and keep 2 things in mind when you see a Taleo site that does not have the 'UP' login option:
1) companies do not share candidates. They never have. Remember dragging a pile of resumes arounnd from place to place? That's because McDonalds doesn't go tell Burger king that they know someone who might fit the profile... that's bad business. It is up to you to make your name known, people complain more now that they have tools that allow them to apply easily to jobs all around the world.
2) Taleo provides a software that handles talent management from the posting of a job to succession planning for employees about to retire... it is designed for the people in HR, not the job seeker. The company uses Taleo software to set up the job pages that people seem to think are complicated, but the company configures everything. Every single market study in the talent management industry points to Taleo as being #1, by a long shot. They are not going anywhere, so learn to love it.

For the haters who think Taleo is some big business job hunter rape machine, the company started in a guys apartment, with the help of a couple of his friends. That's what half of the Taleo haters dreamed of all through school... if you can't stand applying for jobs, make your own.

Jason in Quebec, Quebec said: Create a "Universal Profile". When you see the UP icon on the sign-in page, click it.
2) Taleo is designed for the people in HR, not the job seeker.

As to #2, thank you, Captain Obvious. This statement makes moot the rest of your post.

I've never seen an option to create a "universal profile" using Taleo. With each employer, I've had to have a separate user name and password and I've had to fill out the entire application piecemeal as well as cut and paste redundant information. And none, I say NONE, of it is user friendly.

Taleo is garbage.

It is amazing how awful Taleo software is for the user. Taleo needs some IT help badly-apparently they have been using their software to try to find quality help.

Jason in Quebec, Quebec said: Create a "Universal Profile". When you see the UP icon on the sign-in page, click it. Makes your subsequent submissions much simpler. Follow the instructions, and keep 2 things in mind when you see a Taleo site that does not have the 'UP' login option:
1) companies do not share candidates. They never have. Remember dragging a pile of resumes arounnd from place to place? That's because McDonalds doesn't go tell Burger king that they know someone who might fit the profile... that's bad business. It is up to you to make your name known, people complain more now that they have tools that allow them to apply easily to jobs all around the world.
2) Taleo provides a software that handles talent management from the posting of a job to succession planning for employees about to retire... it is designed for the people in HR, not the job seeker. The company uses Taleo software to set up the job pages that people seem to think are complicated, but the company configures everything. Every single market study in the talent management industry points to Taleo as being #1, by a long shot. They are not going anywhere, so learn to love it.

For the haters who think Taleo is some big business job hunter rape machine, the company started in a guys apartment, with the help of a couple of his friends. That's what half of the Taleo haters dreamed of all through school... if you can't stand applying for jobs, make your own.

That explains why it works so poorly.

It's brutal, as are most online applications processes. I really enjoy going back to apply at a place where you've previously applied and you can't even get past the password part.

There's no way, with the technology out there, that these online application processes aren't purposely clunky.

Parafreegal in Chicago, Illinois said: It's brutal, as are most online applications processes. I really enjoy going back to apply at a place where you've previously applied and you can't even get past the password part.

Ha! I actually put this on a spreadsheet and use pretty much the same login/password for all of it. I can't remember it all either. lol!

If I have applied 3 times without any response, then I just cross the employer off completely and whenever I see the Taleo logo, I just skip the job completely.