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JOB APPLICATION SECURITY
APPLYING FOR WORK: WHO DO YOU TRUST WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
APPLYING FOR WORK? WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO GIVE REFERENCES UNLESS YOU ARE A SERIOUS CANDIDATE?
More and more, one is required to provide more and more personal information on applications. I don’t like handing over all of my professional credentials, or my social security number. And why do the potential employers need to do credit checks? And I refuse to give references until I feel quite confident that I am a serious candidate. In fact, some employers, like insurance companies, are only allowed to say that he/she worked here. That’s all. When one is on a serious, active job hunt, we don’t want to misuse or abuse our potential references with calls to them that are just something the HR staff must do, and wastes everyone’s time.