On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:44:32 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:52:37 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:21:14 -0500, wrote:




OK, but if you have 1000 applicants and one finalist to make an offer,
you only need that one number, not all the others that will be sitting
in a file drawer for a long time.

Nobody is going to get to the application phase for 1000 prospective
employees to fill one job. You would not even look at that many
resumes. Usually they seldom even consider more than a few, enough to
call them back.

My point is though, you don't need the SS# on the application. Does
not matter if it is 2, 10, 100 or 10,000. Until you have a viable
candidate for the job, you have no need for the SS.

You must not live in a place where they have a lot of immigrants.

Around here, a job application with a SSN left blank would just be
tossed in the trash.
Around here there are immigrants from everywhere immaginable. Chine,
eastern Europe, Korea, the middle east, Africa, Central America, South
America,Western Europe, Great Britain, the south Pacific and even the
USA,

The SSN (SIN here in Canada) is not required untill the offer of
employment is made and accepted. The number is then mandatory -