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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @08:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @08:11AM (#9999)

    In Australia they have a unique identifier for tax purposes called the Tax File Number which is issued by the ATO. Bank accounts, employment HR systems and other systems use this to identify people against their tax record.

    It is illegal to require anyone to provide a tax file number except in specific circumstances generally involving earning money (eg bank accounts/salary) or losing money (investments). Even with banks they do not demand a tax file number but they will take out interest at the highest rate if you do not provide it.