Job Applications

[RALFFERS 0]

Is it just me, or do you guys also think, as I do that having to provide your SS# on a online job application is a really bad idea?... I think it's very foolish of a potential employer to require such information over the internet. I don't have as big of problem providing it in person, it is after all necessary

It's been a few weeks now, and I'm still just filling out app after app; the ones that i think I could get ask for a SS# right off the bat and I just think that's bad juju; a thd party could easily access it, and I don't even want to think of the consequences that could bring!

Any thoughts on this subject?

Dialogue/commentary between Divot, Twardo & myself -

"from your first Oshkosh when the three of us were riding to or from one of

[NWFlyer 2]

I wouldn't give it to them until I was offered and had accepted a job and/or if it was required for them to perform some sort of background check (to which I had agreed by signing a separate agreement).

As a matter of routine on a job application, online or otherwise? Hell no. Put in 9 1s if that's what it takes to get past that field but don't put in your real number.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[Jewels 0]

Interesting. I'm with you--I don't think it's good to have that information floating around electronically, especially on random applications. Can you substitute a note that the information is available as needed following an interview, or are these apps set up just to take numbers in that slot?

Edited to add that I like the idea of inserting 1s or a # or something if you can't put in text. It at least shows that you didn't ignore the information or just fail to fully complete the form.

TPM Sister #102

[normiss 892]

and you're also electronically signing authorizations for background checks?
they're checkin you out man!

just beware of the ones that want it over the phone "for tracking purposes"

[Jewels 0]

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and you're also electronically signing authorizations for background checks?
they're checkin you out man!

just beware of the ones that want it over the phone "for tracking purposes"

Shhhhhhhhhh!!! Wait until mine goes through to tell him that!

TPM Sister #102

[Nightingale 0]

If asked for SSN on a job application, I usually just write "will provide if job is offered" or something like that.

[Muenkel 0]

Ralf,

You're right to object to offering your SS# online. As everyone else has said, if you can find a way around it, do so.

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Chris

[skydivingchad 0]

I work for a company that does extensive background checks on all perspective employees. (drug screening, criminal record and credit checks)

I have probably interviewed 40-50 entry level people in the past 2 years and not one of them has ever questioned us asking for their SSN because they know if they wont give it there is no chance of them getting a job.

Out of those 40-50 people interviewed I would say 75% of them failed to meet the criteria of the company.
most of them get shot down on the drug screening.

Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.
Pelt Head #3

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I work for a company that does extensive background checks on all perspective employees. (drug screening, criminal record and credit checks)

I have probably interviewed 40-50 entry level people in the past 2 years and not one of them has ever questioned us asking for their SSN because they know if they wont give it there is no chance of them getting a job.

Out of those 40-50 people interviewed I would say 75% of them failed to meet the criteria of the company.
most of them get shot down on the drug screening.

Don't get me wrong... I'm willing to provide a ss# for the reasons you stated; my issue is providing it over the internet I think you would agree with the rest of us that it is rather easy for a third party to access your information; identity theft generates billions of dollars of business annually. Furthermore, spyware continues to become more advanced and as a result, quite effective at penetrating home computers, even well secured ones. For example, I keep my personal computer very secure, and nonetheless I find spyware on a weekly basis.

Dialogue/commentary between Divot, Twardo & myself -

"from your first Oshkosh when the three of us were riding to or from one of