Why does a prospective employer need my address? ( lemmy.world )

This happens a lot: I apply for a job and they ask for my complete address. Why? I would understand if they just want to know what city/town I’m in: That has bearing on how easily I can get to the office.

But why do they need to know my street address?

The only thing I can think: Indeed/LinkedIn/take-your-pick is building a profile of me based on this info, using my street as a proxy for my income, credit score, or, ultimately, for my social class.

From now on, when they ask me, I’m just going to put a rich person’s address. For this one I used a Brooklyn townhouse where Maggie Gyllenhaal and one of the Saarsgaards lives.

elrik ,

They may be checking to see which candidates live in a “hub zone” for certain credits through the SBA if you’re in the US.

TexMexBazooka ,

To send you tax information, mostly. This is a stupid thing to be mad about.

thesmokingman ,

I feel like you missed that this is on a job application, not an offer letter. Unless I’m actually hired and get paid by you, you aren’t going to send me tax documents so you don’t need my address.

plz1 ,

It could be innocuous, but the paranoid brain I have leads me to believe it’s so they can attampt a background check based on where you live.

“maybe we don’t want to hire someone from that neighborhood”

afraid_of_zombies ,

Could easily be both. I kinda feel like I ran into this once with a resume I saw that the person lived way too far away don’t remember exactly.

Wwwbdd ,

I put up a job posting for my construction company last year and I had applicants from all over the world. Probably 60% from my city, 20% from my province but nowhere near me, and 20% from other countries.

I wouldn’t want or expect anyone to move for this job, let alone from the other side of the world. I manually rejected people who were too far away, but I can definitely understand wanting to filter out people based on their home address

PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

People night be moving there with their spouse. That kept happening to my brother because he hadn’t moved into the city where his wife had gotten a job. He had to wait until they moved to actually get a job.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I can see that being annoying, but it’s also one of the things that makes you a better/worse candidate for certain jobs.

Moving from out of country might mean you’re unfamiliar with the rules/regulations for certain things (like building codes/OSHA type stuff) or if it involves lots of travel people want to hire those familiar with the city streets and traffic already.

WoahWoah ,

So they can mail you things? I understand that most things can and are done digitally, it’s still very common to mail things to prospective employees. Contracts hiring them, for instance.

Or, in your case, if they’re a classy employer, a letter denying your application.

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