Abstract
This study examined the content of application blanks and the awareness of Human Resource (HR) professionals and job applicants regarding the legitimacy of various types of application blank questions. Customer service and Fortune 500 applications were inspected for legally inadvisable items in study 1. Results confirmed prior findings. Additionally, customer service applications contained more legally inadvisable items. Study 2 demonstrated that HR professionals' awareness is better than applicants. The present study has discovered that the presence of inadvisable application blank items is still quite common, even though HR professionals indicated that they were more knowledgeable on this topic than applicants. Implications for management are discussed.
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