I detest filling out applications, especially on paper. Job history, education, and experience/certs is one everyone's resume (or should be). In this age the only thing an application should ask are job specific question.
Not to mention how demoralizing it is to spend time filling out this shit dozens of times (because almost for no site can auto generate based on your uploaded resume) numerous companies and hear nothing back for months.
Most companies don't even have humans looking at applications, they use computers to sort potential hires.