Why I won’t work for AT&T… June 16
The brunt of my recent headaches has been with an AT&T policy that seems not only intrusive, but simply appalling.
Want a job with AT&T? You’ll have to give them your Social Security Number before even being considered for an interview.
I receive emails from headhunters almost daily. In some of these emails I have responded with interest to an AT&T opportunity, but an interest that quickly evaporated. This happened when several head hunters from different agencies (that shall remain unnamed) requested that I *email* them my social security number. This was a requirement and one that was neither waived nor circumvented.
Upon questioning this method one head hunter sent me the confidential letter from AT&T to the Enterprise Contractor Acquisition and Management (eCAM) group, which manages the eTEMP system. The eTEMP system is what vendors (the head hunter agencies) use to input candidates.
Here is the letter in its entirety: