Interview dilemma

SouthernTeeze

Yes we destroy passport copies not the passports!

Deep_In_Debt

I went for quite a few interviews earlier this year and at every interview I was asked to take my passport. So it seems quite normal to me.

Also in my last job, I worked in HR and we used to ask people to bring passports at interview stage. As other poster has said, this meant that if they were successful, we could process their application quickly. We couldn't start anyone until pre-employment checks had been made.

The details were destroyed securely for unsuccessful candidates.

xapprenticex

As I did this a month ago ill chime in, I will simply make a photocopy of your passport then interview you, if you get the job, we know you can work here, no time wasting asking for stuff you turn around and say you cant provide.

If you dont get the job, we will shred the image of the passport and you wont cross our minds ever again. We're too busy to think about scamming you to be honest.

Dont worry about it.

DCFC79

makemerich12 wrote: »

i'm just very careful with personal information with passports etc just find it odd i have to bring this for an interview

Lose the tin hat.

The other employer may ask for the passport at a later date.

Stylehutz

All very interesting with you interviewers and your look at me im doing the right thing checking your passport attitude.

Out of interest, would any of you know how to tell the difference between a genuine passport and a good forged one. For instance knowing where the microchip is placed in a new style passport?

gettingready

SouthernTeeze wrote: »

We confidentially destroy the passports for those who we don't appoint,

Good luck!

That made me laugh... but Elsien spotted first :rotfl:

FBaby

Doing interviews take time. The last think an employer wants is to go through the whole process, choose someone you think is the best person for the job, to then find out that they are not eligible to work in the country and you have to start again (because by then, second best candidate has accepted the other job they'd been offered in the meantime).

From the employer's perspective, it makes a lot more sense to eliminate those they can offer a job to from the start.

SouthernTeeze

All very interesting with you interviewers and your look at me im doing the right thing checking your passport attitude.

Out of interest, would any of you know how to tell the difference between a genuine passport and a good forged one. For instance knowing where the microchip is placed in a new style passport?

This is irrelevant. HR staff are not custom officers; we do not have the training to know whether we are dealing with a counterfeit document. We are given guidance that we are supposed to follow and that is all that can be expected.

We don't want to be fined £20K, so yeah hence the "yeah look at me I'm checking passports."

Cheeseface

I worked in recruitment for a health care agency. We always asked for passports at interview stage. We were taught things to look for in a forgery but it obviously wasn't an indepth education.

When I new to the job I was surprised by number of people would 'forget' their passport at interview stage. I'd offer them work but only once I'd seen their passport, many didn't return. It's often just the asking that can weed out the people who don't have the right to work.

Stylehutz

SouthernTeeze wrote: »

This is irrelevant. HR staff are not custom officers; we do not have the training to know whether we are dealing with a counterfeit document. We are given guidance that we are supposed to follow and that is all that can be expected.

We don't want to be fined £20K, so yeah hence the "yeah look at me I'm checking passports."

Then there is little point in accepting them then if you dont know what to look out for. How do you think companies get fined 20K then? A simple google search would at least tell you where the microchip is placed amongst other things to look out for.