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Employment Applications and Your Personal Info

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:00PM   
from the you-know-that-you-can-trust-us dept.

SuperCharlie writes:

"I am in search of employment and ran across a bit of a dilemma that I would like some Soylent guidance. After applying for a job at CareerBuilder, I received a follow-up email which requested that I fill out their on-line application. The first field, mandatory, was Social Security Number as part of their initial screening process. My question for the community is, how would you deal with requests like this as the initial employment steps?"

• Re:credit check? (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday March 03 2014, @08:56AM

  by TheRaven (270) on Monday March 03 2014, @08:56AM (#10011) Journal

  Depends on the field, I think. There are a few very specialised one that I know of, that serve as a way of connecting people with a specialised set of skills with people looking for jobs in those fields. Academic jobs in the UK and jobs involving compiler design and implementation are two fields that particularly come to my mind, both with job sites that are a pretty good way of finding most openings in the field. For more general categories (e.g. 'software developer') they're useless.

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