[peter-fogg]

I've got a bit of a gripe with the "Job Application" form. Asynchronous saves aren't really intuitive to a lot of users -- if you're a web developer who understands AJAX (and the fact that there's a server with a database actually storing the data somewhere), then it makes sense. But if you're an average person who doesn't immediately know the mechanism it can be confusing. At work I recently converted a portion of our UI from this style of saving to an explicit model specifically to avoid this problem.

[nish1500]

Agreed. It might create confusion. It's better to have a simple direction in the form that says, "Hey, your form is being saved as you type. You can always come back and fill up the rest!"