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Someone I work with suggested this the other day. A one-item checkbox that would weed out most of the riffraff that show up at your place of business, looking for employment. It’s a simple checkbox, but it is really powerful.

Here it is, as it would be presented on either a web application, or just the standard paper kind (you boring, 20th century person):

Do you have common sense?

That would be it. The best part of this question is that it immediately lets you know which applications to toss in the dustbin. To explain:

1. If they don’t check the box, are they saying they don’t have common sense?
2. If they don’t check the box, are they just completely lazy, thus not a person you want to work with?
3. If the do check the box, at least they have sense enough to check the blocks.

That’s why it is such a good idea. Expect to see this on job applications from Best Buy to Wall Street (at least, until somebody sues somebody for some type of discrimination).