A nightmare for the job hunter is the job application that asks for pages and pages and pages of personal information. I filled out one recently that not only asked for my social security number and birthdate, my last manager, a full history of GPA & grad year, approval for a credit check and finished off by making me search for the street address of my high school! Most of these fields were required!
With each field I felt like my chances of ever passing their screening were circling the drain. Leave a field blank and the computer whispers “delete”.
I have two questions on this…
1. Do you REALLY need this?
2. Are you sure you want to do this?
Only you know the answer to question #1. I can’t guess what or why your company requires certain information. I DO have comments on the second question which I’ll continue with …but for now…
Tip #5 On the initial application ask for what you need to start the process. You can pump me for more information later.
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