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For job postings, we require that the application be received and complete by the job posting closing date. We do not base the application on the postmark date (if the application is mailed). Therefor
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Closing date for postings
posted at 9/29/2009 8:19 AM EDT
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For job postings, we require that the application be received and complete by the job posting closing date. We do not base the application on the postmark date (if the application is mailed). Therefore if we receive an application that is postmarked a day or more before the closing date, but we receive it in HR after the closing date, we do not consider the application.
I am curious what others are doing. Do y'all base the closing date on the date received or the date postmarked? Thanks. |
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Closing date for postings
posted at 9/29/2009 9:30 AM EDT
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Way back when I still received snail-mail applications, I went by postmark date, mainly because I didn't want to get into a big legal fight about advserse employment decisions because the post office was slow. |
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Closing date for postings
posted at 10/8/2009 5:35 AM EDT
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I work in white collar government contractor jobs. We have not received a paper application in some time. However, we also staff positions until filled. Therefore the only cutoff date we use is "when filled." |
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Closing date for postings
posted at 10/8/2009 5:38 AM EDT
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As an municipal government entity, our agency accepts the closing date postmark, if an employment application arrives by "snail mail." Our agency closes the on-line application window at 11:59 p.m. for our time zone.
The stickier scenario comes into play when our own employees elect to send a hard copy of the employment application via our inter-office courier and it is not received in a timely manner. Was it left in the plant office mailroom after a scheduled pick-up time ? Private industry does not have to wrestle with the Civil Service Board's decision to throw out the results of an examination, after ruling in favor of a employee who was deemed to have submitted a "late application," thereby not being admitted to the examination process. It can be very costly in more ways than one. |
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Closing date for postings
posted at 10/8/2009 6:14 AM EDT
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First: 3/27/2008 Last: 10/8/2009 |
At our public agency, the application needs to be in our hands by 5:00pm on the close date. No faxes, no postmakrs. No exceptions. We date stamp each application that comes in and other departments know not to accept anything for HR. In many, many years we have never had a problem. We are now primarily on-line now which will also help since the position is no longer available to apply for after the close date. |
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