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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?"

• Total BS (Score: 4, Interesting) by GungnirSniper on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:24PM

  by GungnirSniper (1671) on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:24PM (#9781) Journal

  It sounds like total BS since they aren't going to do a background or credit check until later in the interviewing process, if at all.

  This tactic reminds me of a 'recruiting agency' I once visited, and foolishly filled out their forms completely with salary history, yet I never heard from them again. My guess is both of these tactics are just to data mine, rather than actually place people. In any case, your SSN is something you should protect.

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