Workday, again
Workday asks for your résumé, parses it into something that resembles your career if you squint, and then has you correct every field by hand. By the fourth employer that uses it you have four Workday accounts and have typed the same three jobs four times. One form wants dates as MM/YYYY and the next wants two dropdowns. A third asks for your mailing address separately from your home address, and your browser’s autofill, which matches on field names, cheerfully puts the same street in both.
dassi reads the question on the page. “Most recent employer”, “Current or last company” and “Where do you work now?” all get the same answer from your notes, because it’s reading what the label means, and the forms that phrase things strangely stop being the slow ones.
Write it all down once
Before the first application, put your details in one place. A Google Doc is fine, or dassi’s memory, which you can open and edit like a note. Work history with exact start and end dates, education, addresses, links, references, and the small answers you keep retyping about notice periods and relocating.
Add a line listing what dassi must never guess. Ours names salary expectations, visa status and the voluntary demographic questions, and dassi stops at those fields and leaves them for you.
We’d also leave “Why do you want to work here?” blank. It’s the one answer a hiring manager reads closely, and starting from a draft tends to pull you toward the draft’s wording. That’s a preference. dassi will write one from your notes and the job posting if you ask, marked for you to rewrite.
Filling the form, and the last click
Tell dassi, “Fill this from my details doc and stop before submit.” It goes a page at a time, choosing dropdown values, formatting each date the way that form wants and filling the repeating work-history blocks that make you click “Add another” four times in a row. When a required field isn’t covered by your doc, it asks. Once the last page is done it stops, and you read everything and press submit yourself.
A few steps it hands back to you. Résumé upload fields sometimes need you to pick the file. CAPTCHAs and emailed codes need a human. Sites that want a new login per employer need a password, and that password should come from your password manager, so create those accounts yourself.
Other forms that ask the same things
Supplier registration portals ask for the same company details every time, and so does onboarding paperwork for a new client. The web form data entry page covers that business version, where each form’s details come from a spreadsheet row and the same form might get filled forty times in a week.
Whatever dassi fills in goes to the AI provider you picked along the way, your address and work history included. For forms that ask for an ID or tax number we just type that field in ourselves, which is probably overcautious.