M$03$ Applied Discussion Exercise $-$ Application Form Review

You have just been brought in as the HR Manager for a rapidly growing start$-$up company. Founded in $2014,$ employment has grown from $26$ employees in $2014$ to $214$ employees last year. Until you were hired, the CEO's secretary was handling recruiting and benefits administration, and other functions such as payroll were outsourced.

With the rapid growth of employment in the company, the CEO decided to hire a full$-$time HR Manager and brought you on board. Since the company is seeking to hire a number of new employees within the next few months, you decided to review its online employment application $($attached$),$ and you've spotted a number of problems with some of the questions contained on the application. The job application form is posted immediately preceding this applied discussion exercise.

Questions:

After reviewing the application, what specific questions should be eliminated, and why? Your discussion should include references to the specific employment law$($s$)$ is$/$are violated.

With respect to each application question identified above, how would you rephrase the question so that it complies with the law?

What legally defensible questions would you suggest adding to this application?

Post your thoughts to this discussion board by $11$:$59$ p$.$m$.$ on Thursday of this module. Please note: You must create a new thread to this discussion board before you can view any of your classmates' postings.

Your initial posting should be substantive $(4-5$ full paragraphs$)$ and include chapter ideas and concepts to support your answers. Additionally, you are encouraged to include any relevant personal or professional similarities or contrasts to help enrich the discussion.

To complete the discussion board portion of this assignment, your response to others is required between Thursday and Sunday at $11$:$59$ p$.$m$.$ This includes a substantive reply to at least two $(2)$ other classmates that adds significantly to the discussion by building on your classmates' comments, noting similarities or differences, suggesting alternative approaches, pointing out problems, and even constructively disagreeing.

This discussion board assignment is worth a maximum of $35$ points $-$ up to $25$ points for your initial posting and up to $5$ points for each of your responses to classmates $($up to a maximum of $10$ points$).$

Please note: You must post a thread to this discussion board before you can view your classmates' postings.

Please also note: You are required to use a minimum of one $(1)$ outside resource in addition to your textbook $($e$.$g$.,$ Internet, library, etc.$)$ to improve your understanding of the topic and enhance your posting, and you must cite your source$($s$)$ according to APA formatting. Please also note that Wikipedia Is not considered an appropriate source for academic work, because anyone is allowed to be a contributor to the website. Scholarly articles are written by acknowledged experts and scholars in the field. Accordingly, please do not use Wikipedia as a source on your academic papers and project.

Job Application Form.dock