Forget HR at big corporations. Just forget it. Fill out whatever boilerplate you have to and get them out of the way as quickly as possible.
At one point I tried to get into the hiring pipeline to both streamline the process and to get better candidates in the door because the job adverts we were putting out were horrendous. Instead of seeking general problem solvers that were familiar with X, Y, Z technologies the adverts were specifying things like specific versions of Tomcat and JBoss. Long story short I just gave up. I couldn't get the recruiters out of the pipeline and they were the ones going to campuses and job fairs and gumming up the works. I couldn't get it across to them that we just wanted smart people and didn't really care if the person fell in front-end, back-end, or QA bucket.
At one point I tried to get into the hiring pipeline to both streamline the process and to get better candidates in the door because the job adverts we were putting out were horrendous. Instead of seeking general problem solvers that were familiar with X, Y, Z technologies the adverts were specifying things like specific versions of Tomcat and JBoss. Long story short I just gave up. I couldn't get the recruiters out of the pipeline and they were the ones going to campuses and job fairs and gumming up the works. I couldn't get it across to them that we just wanted smart people and didn't really care if the person fell in front-end, back-end, or QA bucket.