Is it okay to fill out a job application and put "see resume" if you already covered that?

All the other answers you have gotten are dead on. Perhaps it will help if you understand *why* employers require this. It isn't that they are lazy. Your resume is, in no way, a binding document, and it only includes what you have decided to share. A job application, in contrast, 1) covers everything they need to know, and 2) is a legally binding document. You know that part at the end where you sign the statement that all the info you have shared is complete and accurate to the best of your knowledge? Employers need that because they can be held liable for negligent hiring decisions... for example, if they simply accepted everything your resume says at face value. Anyway, I hope this makes sense and makes it seem less redundant for you to have to fill out the application!

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I hear you, I have no time for them and just put "see resume". I write a resume for a reason and it is not so I can rewrite it a thousand times. If they need documents signed I will do that in person, if they need references I will give them in person, I'm not about to go giving other peoples contact details out over the internet! If a company wants "their" application filled out perhaps they should instead work on better parsing algorithms so that the import of a resume to application actually works! That makes them look like a lazy company that doesn't care to me which isn't a company I would want to work for ie one where you have to do all the work while everyone else gets drunk. I'm sure this doesnt really apply to fast food from what I remember many years ago (everyone there usually is already drunk lol)

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Fill Out Job Applications Online

As someone who's had to hire people before, my advice is to fill everything out. As an employer everything I want to know right away is on that application and that's what I look at first. If I like your application then I'll look at your resume. But I'm a busy person and want everything in the format that I'm used to to automatically weed out the applications. If someone just puts "see resume" then I assume that if they're too lazy to write it down and too lazy to be hired.

they wouldn't give you an application form if it isn't important to them. Resumes are important as well as the questions being asked in the application form so better fill out everything anyway it would just take you a minute.

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RE :Is it okay to fill out a job application and put "see resume" if you already covered that?

Sorry for the weird wording of my question, but what I mean is when you're filling out a job application, whether an actual paper application or it's online, and they ask for "job history", "education", etc. is it okay to just put in parentheses (see resume)? Because, filling out job applications is already a grueling process as it is, and it's so hard to find a job since I stopped getting hours at my most recent job. (fast food jobs are sometimes seasonal.) Basically, if I already have information in my cover letter, references, or resume, do I still have to fill it out or could I just indicate that it's attached? I mean, am I the only one that feels like filling out job applications is redundant? Please answer asap! I really need another job! :/

Update: So let me get this straight: let's say the job app asks for my education and work history. Even if I already said that in my resume, I should write it anyway?

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the time youve spent asking what to do is the time it wouldve taken you to fill the entire thing out.

i never fill them out, attach resume, to save time, for myself. the job application wont make or break your chances of getting a job, the interview will. just make sure your resumes spot on & includes some experience with what youre applying for.

hope this helps