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Employment Applications and Your Personal Info

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly
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?"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:16PM

    by VLM (445) on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:16PM (#9772)

    I thought job search websites died out a decade ago when HR types and managers started categorically throwing out any application from a job website. My guess is they did die out, although something that looks like them sticks around for the advertising money and profile building. More money to be made than you'd think, selling to unemployed people.

    Some really great jobs on that site, LOL, in my zip I saw part time retail sales associate, general production worker (aka illegal alien manual laborer on an assembly line), and a CDL truck driver. Times about 10 or so. Nothing that interests me at all. Maybe in your area they have something worth looking at?

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  • (Score: 1) by glyph on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:07PM

    by glyph (245) on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:07PM (#9809)

    Wow, my experience in the last decade couldn't be more different. More and more businesses don't even solicit applications anymore. They contact a recruitment firm directly and outsource the short-listing process completely.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday March 03 2014, @12:49AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Monday March 03 2014, @12:49AM (#9907)

      There's a big difference between a job search website and a recruitment firm.

  • (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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @09:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @09:34AM (#10025)

    I thought job search websites died out a decade ago when HR types and managers started categorically throwing out any application from a job website. My guess is they did die out, although something that looks like them sticks around for the advertising money and profile building. More money to be made than you'd think, selling to unemployed people.

    I believe that one called Dice diversified somewhat. Unfortunately, it didn't work out too well.