This has to be the dumbest job posting I ever seen. You won't believe this (employers, jobs)

[SXMGirl]

Back to the original post, companies are checking more carefully these days. Be prepared when offered a position to submit a copy of your marriage license and your last tax return, if you are married. This is so that you can be insured.

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by SXMGirl

Back to the original post, companies are checking more carefully these days. Be prepared when offered a position to submit a copy of your marriage license and your last tax return, if you are married. This is so that you can be insured.

Employers cannot ask for this information during the hiring process.

[boxus]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

My youngest daughter was just hired by Baltimore County Public Schools. To complete the application process she had to submit copies of both her high school and college diplomas, her high school and college transcripts, her Praxis score and certification of her exemption from one round of them, her SAT scores and her AP scores in addition to undergoing fingerprinting and an FBI/MD State Police background check.

What if a person never took an SAT or AP?

[boxus]

Originally Posted by NJBest

Employers cannot ask for this information during the hiring process.

Correct, they cannot ask for this during application process.

[SXMGirl]

Originally Posted by NJBest

Employers cannot ask for this information during the hiring process.

Not during the hiring process, (I did state when offered) but they certainly can when extending the offer and letting it be known that they will expect this before finalization. This appears to be something new.

Additionally, just because you have worked for a company for many years will not stop employers from now asking for this information. I know this to be true because DH was just asked for this after paying for medical benefits for 28 years.

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by SXMGirl

Not during the hiring process, (I did state when offered) but they certainly can when extending the offer and letting it be known that they will expect this before finalization. This appears to be something new.

Additionally, just because you have worked for a company for many years will not stop employers from now asking for this information. I know this to be true because DH was just asked for this after paying for medical benefits for 28 years.

It makes sense for medical benefits, but you won't see it listed in a job posting during an application process.

[jamaicabound60565]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

My youngest daughter was just hired by Baltimore County Public Schools. To complete the application process she had to submit copies of both her high school and college diplomas, her high school and college transcripts, her Praxis score and certification of her exemption from one round of them, her SAT scores and her AP scores in addition to undergoing fingerprinting and an FBI/MD State Police background check.

obviously certain positions are going to require more info than othres. teachers have an important job and are in charge of kids. they have to get tb screenings na things like that, background checks we dont want molesters teaching kids, etc. also all that stuff is through the state to get the licensing and the other checks are done by the district during the hiring process.

to just outright ask for a degree just to apply seems silly and intrusive.

also to whomever sad a background check will turn up your degree thats not the case unless the background check involves them calling previous employers and schools and i think evne then the school would require a release signed. its not going to show up on a criminal background check obviously as your schooling has nothing to do with that.

i have had to submit my transcripts for a job. its usually later in the hiring process not just to submit na application

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by boxus

What if a person never took an SAT or AP?

Then the applicant will have some explaining as to how s/he was accepted to college. Community colleges in MD don't absolutely require SAT but it is pretty standard to take it. With the state's push to make all students take the SAT (my system is paying for all Seniors to take it this year at a special testing day) and Jay Matthews' damn Challenge Index for AP it's now unusual for a kid going to college to not have taken them.

[MidwesternBookWorm]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Then the applicant will have some explaining as to how s/he was accepted to college. Community colleges in MD don't absolutely require SAT but it is pretty standard to take it. With the state's push to make all students take the SAT (my system is paying for all Seniors to take it this year at a special testing day) and Jay Matthews' damn Challenge Index for AP it's now unusual for a kid going to college to not have taken them.

That's generally true of a traditional college or university that is geared toward teens coming straight out of high school, but some of the for-profit private colleges that are geared more to non-traditional adult learners don't have that requirement. At some institutions, pretty much all they ask is a pulse and a checkbook to admit an applicant.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by MidwesternBookWorm

That's generally true of a traditional college or university that is geared toward teens coming straight out of high school, but some of the for-profit private colleges that are geared more to non-traditional adult learners don't have that requirement. At some institutions, pretty much all they ask is a pulse and a checkbook to admit an applicant.

Yes. The question I was answering was directed at my daughter having to submit SAT/AP/HS Diploma/College Diploma along with transcripts in her application submission.