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I think that admission forms ask for ridiculous amount of information regarding employment history. Most schools want not only years worked in the company, but months and some even want dates. Then, they want you to type your position, salary when you got in to that company and the salary when you left it. Oh, do you also want my blood type?
I have 15 years of experience. Do they honestly believe that I can remember that much detail? Even if I did, I wouldn't tell that to anyone, it's personal and confidential. In fact, my former employers consider such information confidential and will only disclose that person Jane Doe has been employed in the past and nothing else.

How do I go around this? I haven't submitted an application, so I am not sure if the software will complain if I leave the fields blank. If I can't leave them blank, do I type: "it's confidential", i.e. I do not wish to disclose it.

I have serious issue with this, it is invasion of privacy, IMHO. What's next? Adcom running credit checks?

Good question, I'm waiting to hear the advice as well.

I do not really think this is private info they are asking. They are asking the day/month you started to work and when you ended. What is wrong about that? Just pick a date or month close to the year if you do not know the exact date. They will not do a formal check, but want to know roughly.

Also, the salary is important so they know the avg. of the class entering. When you apply for a job, they usually ask for your current salary, this is the same thing. This also shows if you got any promotions and such. They are not asking for you to disclose your life story, or sexual preference as you are making it seem.

so personally, I did a few app's an they asked A LOT of questions, some I found to be too much, but none to invade my privacy.

just my 2 cents...