The amount of risk the insurance company is taking on is much higher given the fact they know
nothing about an applicant's health.
Because the insurance companies know
nothing about the applicants health, they must institute a 24 month waiting period to keep them from going out of business (in addition to higher premiums).
Ambiguous objective statements don't make any sense and tell
nothing about applicant.
Not exact matches
It's that irreducible uncertainty — the fact that the job
applicant just doesn't know if he's got the job until the call comes through, and there's
nothing he can do
about it — that really gets to us.
Having poor to fair credit history is
nothing to be shameful
about, especially if you're trying to do something
about it, and LoanMart realizes that this may affect many
applicants in the bank, credit union, or pawn shop arenas who just need a little extra financial support to get out of a rut; when the final determining factor for an
applicant is presented to an institution, it usually pertains to credit.
There is certainly
nothing wrong or improper
about Company B using its personal connections to cause an employment
applicant to get a job with a hiring company on a paid basis.
On John's larger point
about using grades because they're a «safe» measure, I'd simply remind everyone that there were bad old days, when
applicants to firms were judged on factors that were less than meritorious, and so if grades, dumb as they are, do
nothing else they force a law firm to swallow hard before declining to hire a Black woman with a fist full of A + marks.
As you can imagine, the insurance company is taking on a substantial amount of risk when they insure the life of an
applicant while knowing
nothing about their health.
There is
nothing that the life insurance company wants to know
about the
applicant that they wont find out.
(Again, remember, they don't ask any medical questions or any health related questions so the insurance company literally knows
nothing about the health of the
applicant.)
Had the HR Investigator run the sex offender search and
nothing more, this
applicant's record would have been returned as clean, and the client may have made a hiring decision without critical information
about the
applicant's character and past crimes.
Nothing distracts the reader from relevant facts
about the
applicant's experience, education, and skills.
At that point, after using permissible screening tools, the reason for employers to search social networking sites would be to ensure that there is
nothing that would eliminate the person for employment, such as saying nasty things
about the employer's firm, or if the
applicant engaged in behavior that would damage the company, hurt business interests, or be inconsistent with business needs.