On Dec 6, 1:00*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:26:00 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:28:30 -0500, wrote:

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 -

You may not have all the government red tape an employer has here.

Most employers would look at a blank SSN as a person trying to hide
something and with the typical stack of applications they will get for
any job, why even go any farther. Chuck it and look at the next one.

*Their loss. We have enough hiring red tape up here - why open
yourself to legal problems that would exist if the information was
leaked - even by someone else - and you were the one found with it in
an unsecured for - and not NEEDED.- Hide quoted text -

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Yeah, that's right. The same info that your bank
has, your broker, your home insurance agent, your auto
insurance agent, your apt manager, your
mortgage company, every credit card you've ever applied for,
every hospital and doctor you've visited.... why it's just so totally
unacceptable for a prospective employer to ask for it, that it's
worth not getting the job. Good thinking. And why stop there.
Why should they have your home address either? That's of
no relevance either, right, yet could be used for identity theft.
Or how about your phone and email address? Why my God!
They could send you spam..... I guess the new procedure
should be to go in an refuse to even give a name. What the
hell difference does it make if your name is John Doe or
Zachary Smith?