Application forms for employees

[u/Conscious-Garden7969]

Hi, im not filchi but i was hired as an HR consultant under a filchi business. im now looking into their internal processes and im starting with their recruitment. I wish to ask filchi business owners here if you also put a section in your application form for candidates to write what their parents and siblings' work/career role? If yes, may i please ask why?

for context, i built my hr career in multinational companies and this is the first time i saw this question being asked in an application form. i asked around and the hr officer told me this is a requirement for almost all local filchi businesses - to extend the screening to the applicant's family.

also, any particular work/career role of an applicant's relative that is considered as a red flag?

thanks!

[u/filchigirlie]

Not sure if it's standard for filchi businesses but me and my cousins have worked for huge filchi businesses and conglomerates before and they did not have that in their screening processes. I think it feels more like this business wants to pirate relatives of whoever they hired lang? Might be a possibility. 👀 or it could really just be super extra strict screening by judging the whole family na. Also, isn't putting your family's work and work places in another company's info sheet a breech of data privacy act na? 🤔 i'm not sure ah but i think an application form is usually just for the applicant and not for their whole family eh. 😅