[Baypiggies] Ageism rehashed

[Daniel González Gasull]

I also wonder why a lot job applications ask for your street address.
I don't want to give my street address to a stranger before I'm
working there.  City, state and even zipcode is fine with me, but not
full address.

By the way, where I come from (Spain) almost everybody writes the date
of birth and also usually their married status in their resume.  I was
actually pleasantly surprised when I realized nobody in the US does
that and is actually forbidden to ask that information in a job
application.


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have had some interesting questions over the years. One of the best
> was a recruiter who asked me "Are you Muslim?" I responded with "What
> relevance does that have to the job function?", "None", "Good to hear,
> in that case, may I have your next question, please?"
>
> On 1 February 2011 16:14, Keith Dart <keith at dart.us.com> wrote:
>> === On Tue, 02/01, Jesse Gough wrote: ===
>>> They
>>> wanted me to authorize a highly invasive background check for a
>>> development job. This included giving them the right to interview
>>> neighbors and friends, check my driving record, credit history,
>> ===
>>
>> Was it a government job? Some government jobs that require having
>> access to sensitive information would require that. It's not illegal if
>> it is a job requirement. Background checks for security clearances do
>> that, and more. I even had to take a lie-detector test as part of one.
>> It is not considered mandatory, but if you refuse you simply don't get
>> the clearances and the job that needs them.
>>
>>
>> -- Keith Dart
>>
>>
>>
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