Applying for a job asks for a lot of data, and what if you aren't hired?
Be cautious with what you provide, especially sensitive information, when voluntarily giving to vast amounts of job AD sources.
Follow a few of these privacy tips with these three methods.
Why?
These papers can get left lying around during the blur of business. Office doors could be left open, stacks of papers left on shelves and possibly near customers’ reach; plenty of unsecured areas.
Small Online Help Wanted Sites:
Finding a job online is becoming increasingly popular. The cost to post an AD is minimal or more often free. Entries vary from a paragraph to descriptive sought after skills. Many times they ask for an email entry of your qualifications, including a resume.
Don’t Give:
Be cautious with what you provide, especially sensitive information, when voluntarily giving to vast amounts of job AD sources.
Follow a few of these privacy tips with these three methods.
Paper Applications or
Resume
Small locally owned businesses may provide standard template paper print out applications. This includes bars, restaurants or retail establishments. These are usually double sided with a small amount of space to enter information. It may ask for your name, address, past experience where and when you attended school.
Don’t Give:
Small locally owned businesses may provide standard template paper print out applications. This includes bars, restaurants or retail establishments. These are usually double sided with a small amount of space to enter information. It may ask for your name, address, past experience where and when you attended school.
Don’t Give:
- Social Security Number
- Physical Address
- Exact Date of Birth
- Graduation Date
Why?
These papers can get left lying around during the blur of business. Office doors could be left open, stacks of papers left on shelves and possibly near customers’ reach; plenty of unsecured areas.
Small Online Help Wanted Sites:
Finding a job online is becoming increasingly popular. The cost to post an AD is minimal or more often free. Entries vary from a paragraph to descriptive sought after skills. Many times they ask for an email entry of your qualifications, including a resume.
Don’t Give:
- Social Security Number
- Physical Address
- Exact Date of Birth
- Marital or Dependence Status
- Graduation Date
- Seldom a Photo
- Social media links
Why:
Free classified entries are seldom quality control checked for validity. Hackers and spammers may pose fake ads for the purpose of gaining data or reply send you unrelated emails. If the Ad doesn’t list a phone number, company name, or any other way to reach them, be weary.
Online Applications with large companies
Large well established companies post their job openings through their company website. They have invested in a Human Resource department who gain strict professional training to assure they are abiding by legal protocols. However, this does not guarantee mistakes don’t happen.
Free classified entries are seldom quality control checked for validity. Hackers and spammers may pose fake ads for the purpose of gaining data or reply send you unrelated emails. If the Ad doesn’t list a phone number, company name, or any other way to reach them, be weary.
Online Applications with large companies
Large well established companies post their job openings through their company website. They have invested in a Human Resource department who gain strict professional training to assure they are abiding by legal protocols. However, this does not guarantee mistakes don’t happen.
Don’t Give:
- Social Security Number
- Marital or Dependence Status
- Graduation Date
- Very seldom a photo
- Social media links
Why?
Large companies do not need your Social Security Number until they have decided to hire you to file tax information. Some may ask for it for additional background checks such as criminal or credit history. It should be, that when they become more interested in you, after reviewing your initiated information.
Large companies may also apply: Employment check, references, education check, drug test, personality tests, comprehension tests, skills application tests, re-entering the same info on the resume and more. Provide data at your own risk.
Large companies do not need your Social Security Number until they have decided to hire you to file tax information. Some may ask for it for additional background checks such as criminal or credit history. It should be, that when they become more interested in you, after reviewing your initiated information.
Large companies may also apply: Employment check, references, education check, drug test, personality tests, comprehension tests, skills application tests, re-entering the same info on the resume and more. Provide data at your own risk.
If you aren’t hired, that data was sent and stored digitally
without a clear absolute certainty of security protection. Anything submitted
online is not always definitively safe.
What they find anyway:
Even if some information is not provided, by process of
deductive analysis, people can figure out approximate assumptions on age,
marital, health and possible dependent status. Demographic characteristics can
be concluded based on information revealed such as year of graduation, general
community area, length of experience, specialty studies and more.
Both the prospective employee and employer both seek a
compatible business relationship. In my
opinion, once a company is interested in an applicant based on initially
provided matching skills, then they may move to the next step of asking for
more personal data. In today’s world wide links, people are easier to look up
online. Pieces of our lives are scattered, published by a few key online word
searches.
