A buddy of mine is a police officer and he’s applied to a handful of services recently. Every time, he has to:
- Manually re-enter his full work history (with exact dates going back 10+ years)
- Copy all his references again (sometimes including DOBs)
- Re-upload the same licenses and certifications
It’s brutal – hours of busywork just to submit another application.
From what I’ve heard, it’s not just policing – nurses, teachers, government jobs, and other regulated professions deal with the same thing.
👉 Would you use something that let you store all of this once and reuse it across applications? Or do you just accept it as part of the process?
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Introducing a service that could be used across the country as a “clearinghouse” of sorts could be very lucrative.
Government jobs.com exists and most cities use it now.
For Fed Gov jobs, that exists:
https://www.usajobs.gov/
It is also a beast system that is very keyword focused across your entire work history.
Where my normal corporate resume is a crisp, streamlined 2 pages, my fed resume on here is over 20 pages
Oh this is employment market wide, not law enforcement specific. It’s a massive pain in the ass.
Can’t believe I forgot, but there are websites like Monster and Indeed whose missions are to fix this issue:
I think the former has just sort of a profile you build of yourself where employers seek you out rather than the other way around, while the latter has a standard template you fill out that gets sent to anyone advertising there in a standardize resume format. It’s been a while since I’ve been applying for jobs, but Indeed has worked well for me. Never tried Monster.