dob and nat insurance required

[Liability]

i've just been asked by a pimp for my date of birth and national insurance number prior to putting me forward for a role.

the role is local council

is this normal

am a tad wary about these things

suspect - I tell you its now soo easy to be a victim of ID fraud - when an agent leaves his job - he generally takes a copy or details of the DB and stashes it on his PC - imagine how many of our details are out there

[Purple Dalek]

i've just been asked by a pimp for my date of birth and national insurance number prior to putting me forward for a role.

the role is local council

is this normal

am a tad wary about these things

I get asked for it so much, and where my clearance is held, I have it amongst the extra details on my CV.

Yeah, I've had a few cases of ID theft too. Agents take my CV and put someone elses name on it.

The joys of reducing people to mere numbers hey.

[Bagpuss]

i've just been asked by a pimp for my date of birth and national insurance number prior to putting me forward for a role.

the role is local council

is this normal

am a tad wary about these things

I've had it before. Some internal recruitment sytems require this in order to be submitted. Often people give more info than this to facebook

[jMonkey]

i've just been asked by a pimp for my date of birth and national insurance number prior to putting me forward for a role.

the role is local council

is this normal

am a tad wary about these things

(hello - first post, be nice )

I had a call similar to this recently asking the same thing, except the agent, sorry, pimp wanted 5 years past references aswell!

Obviously I said I'm not going to give this info to him right now and especially before an interview and CV being put forward - he seemed to get very ar$ey about this. (Probably not hit his new leads target.)

Then, it turns out he is recruiting for another agency who are recruiting for the client (the council.) Who knows how many people my details would have gone through..

I understand a NI number may be needed by a council to check ID etc., but as I would be working as a company to the agency, a NI number is irrelevant?

Anyway, is all this a scam lately?

I never did hear back from the pimp.. what a suprise!