On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 22:55:42 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
wrote:

wrote in :

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.

Most employers don't ask for the SSN on a job application.

That's why the ones that do are viewed with suspicion.

As I said, every one I applied to last year, did. Many I never got to
the application phase because it wasn't a match, for whatever reason,
but every one wanted the SSN on the application.