At&T: Discrimination and Identity-privacy violation

I recently asked some of my Linked-In contracts for their knowledge and opinion of a company requiring a person's SSN BEFORE they will even accept a resume from a person or recruiter. There really is no legitimate reason for this. I could lead to identity theft. The offending company if AT&T. I run in to this because as a consultant/contractor, I do project work and I get contacted by many different recruiter, 5-10, every day about At&T projects. I suppose being a large company and having many open opportunities makes AT&T feel entitled to to just about any boundary and ethics violation. Also At&T asks for the moon! They want one person to do the ob of 5 - 5 specialties, and development skills alone so broad as to be very hard to find. They are using every recruiter in the world - not just American workers to do their R work. I find this offensive, as this county needs jobs. They should hire an American recruiter. In spite of the difficulty of matching the requirements (for all positions and locations, the same), all recruiters tell me that I have the package it is very hard to find one with this skill set. In spite of that AT&T has not interest in me. I did some checking on the net and it seems there are allegations with some evidence, that AT&T requires SSNs up front so as to rule out mature applicants. hat does explain a lot and another thing I can add to my list of things to dislike about AT&T. Read more: http://community.ere.net/groups/atlanta-recruiters/discussions/912/