You have just been brought in as the HR Manager for a rapidly growing start$-$up company. Founded in $2014,$ employment has grown from $26$ employees in $2014$ to $214$ employees last year. Until you were hired, the CEO$$s secretary was handling recruiting and benefits administration, and other functions such as payroll were outsourced.

With the rapid growth of employment in the company, the CEO decided to hire a full$-$time HR Manager and brought you on board. Since the company is seeking to hire a number of new employees within the next few months, you decided to review its online employment application $($attached$),$ and you$$ve spotted a number of problems with some of the questions contained on the application. The job application form is posted immediately preceding this applied discussion exercise.