Question for you Human Resource guys

[navycop]

I had an interview for a job yesterday. Before the interview, they had me fill out a "disclosure of information" form. My friend (who is an employee of the company) told me they wouldn't of had me fill it out unless I got the job. Is this true??

 

[Andrew Arndts]

Um NO, because of what they might see in your credit rating, police record, even military record, Facebook profile, etc. That is what the discloser paperwork provides them to be able to do.

 

[ed4copies]

As it was explained to me (as an employer) once, anything that you ask for, ask EVERYONE for it. Then, you make it harder for any perceived minority to sue you. (I had one employee try to bring an action with unemployment, claiming I treated her unfairly because she was "non-Hispanic"---it never got off the ground, but still took about 8 hours of my time)

 

[Smitty37]

Not Really

My guess is that it does not mean that you got the job. It gives them permission to get information that they might want before they offer the job. If they decided at the interview that you weren't the right person they will just file it with your application and shred it after about a year. I did quite a few hiring interviews for a large company and we could make an offer on the day of the interviews for most applicants but there were some that we would have to wait a day or two because some of the background checks had not be made.

 

[lorbay]

My guess is that it does not mean that you got the job. It gives them permission to get information that they might want before they offer the job. If they decided at the interview that you weren't the right person they will just file it with your application and shred it after about a year. I did quite a few hiring interviews for a large company and we could make an offer on the day of the interviews for most applicants but there were some that we would have to wait a day or two because some of the background checks had not be made.

This how the company I work for does it.

Lin.

 

[Smitty37]

Lots of changes over the years

My guess is that it does not mean that you got the job. It gives them permission to get information that they might want before they offer the job. If they decided at the interview that you weren't the right person they will just file it with your application and shred it after about a year. I did quite a few hiring interviews for a large company and we could make an offer on the day of the interviews for most applicants but there were some that we would have to wait a day or two because some of the background checks had not be made.

This how the company I work for does it.

Lin.

I got hired in 1960 and the company could ask a lot more questions about my background than we could ask in the 1980s when I was interviewing. For instance, we could not ask if people had ever been arrested unless it had a direct effect on the job they were being interviewed for.

It was funny because they also had to black out of resumes any reference to race or sex, so you automatically knew that anyone with something blacked out on the resume was non-white, female or both.

They could also do a lot more testing before they hired you when I started working....actually when I was hired if you were not considered to be qualified for a lot higher level job than you were being interviewed for (even if it was sweeping the floors) you had zero chance of getting hired. That was one of the main reasons my employer could go as long as they did (over 50 years) with a no layoff policy. All their employees were over qualified and easily retrained.