would you hire someone without a driving license?

[disneychrista]

If the ablility to drive is a requirement for the job then I would not hire someone without one. If having a drivers license is not a requirement I would not hold it against the person for not having one. I would think twice about the DUI but then again I hire for an ale house...so that is a little different.

 

[tonilea]

Does he drive now? If he does drive without a license, I would consider that a mark against his character or at least a disregard for authority. Not great traits in an employee.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Funny I read this today. Yesterday, someone came into where I work to apply for a position. The owner talked to him, and had him fill out an application.

He had experience, but no driver's license. I don't think I would hire someone who did not drive. They would have to depend on someone else to get them to work everyday, and that could create problems with dependability. Now, if the person lived within walking distance, I would have no problem with the fact they don't drive. I wouldn't hire someone over 21 who needed another person to drive them around.

 

[dcgrumpy]

Funny I read this today. Yesterday, someone came into where I work to apply for a position. The owner talked to him, and had him fill out an application.

He had experience, but no driver's license. I don't think I would hire someone who did not drive. They would have to depend on someone else to get them to work everyday, and that could create problems with dependability. Now, if the person lived within walking distance, I would have no problem with the fact they don't drive. I wouldn't hire someone over 21 who needed another person to drive them around.

As long as they show up and do their job why do you care how they get there?

Over the years I've worked with people who took public transportation to work or carpooled with someone else. I don't recall it ever being an issue.

 

[disneyjunkie]

Funny I read this today. Yesterday, someone came into where I work to apply for a position. The owner talked to him, and had him fill out an application.

He had experience, but no driver's license. I don't think I would hire someone who did not drive. They would have to depend on someone else to get them to work everyday, and that could create problems with dependability. Now, if the person lived within walking distance, I would have no problem with the fact they don't drive. I wouldn't hire someone over 21 who needed another person to drive them around.

I'll be 40 in January. I never learned to drive. Since I've lived in NYC most of my life, I never needed to have a license. Even when lived in NC (9 years), it wasn't a huge issue. Our home, my jobs and my son's schools were all on the bus line.

 

[barkley]

not only would i require him to have the lic. in hand i'de be making a call to my bsns. insurere to see if he's insurable. with a prior dui and no driving history for that many years he may be a high risk to be driving a company vehical (or a private vehical on company time).

one of the positions i hired for required a valid drivers lic., not that the position called for much driving-but on a rare it occasion it might. we could not hire until that lic. was in hand and provided to us. reason being was if we hired even with the provision that a person provide by a certain date, doing the actual termination could be timely and expensive-and we'de be stuck with more down time trying to get a replacement.

btw-we had one candidate who insited she could get a lic. 'no problem' and it's a good thing we did'nt hire pending receipt-come to find out she was legaly blind and was setting us up (as we later found she had done to previous employers) to get hired and then use ada to force us to adapt the job to having someone else transport her we were proactive on ada accommodations but apparantly she had abused the law in the past to get out of off site trainings and re-assignments to the detriment of her employers and clients

 

[Ham Ham]

Funny I read this today. Yesterday, someone came into where I work to apply for a position. The owner talked to him, and had him fill out an application.

He had experience, but no driver's license. I don't think I would hire someone who did not drive. They would have to depend on someone else to get them to work everyday, and that could create problems with dependability. Now, if the person lived within walking distance, I would have no problem with the fact they don't drive. I wouldn't hire someone over 21 who needed another person to drive them around.

I know plenty of folks who don't drive. There are many forms of public transportation, bus, subway, streetcar, metro, train, ferry. Let's not forget carpooling, bicycles...etc.....

Billy headed west because, back east he couldn't find any work due to the fact that he didin't drive. He hoped to find a more accepting kind of folk out west.

 

[Aidensmom]

As long as they show up and do their job why do you care how they get there?

Over the years I've worked with people who took public transportation to work or carpooled with someone else. I don't recall it ever being an issue.

Yep, when I first graduated from college and got a job I didn't have a license. Why? Because my psycho mom would never let me take her car to take my test, and I couldn't afford to buy a car on my own because I was paying my way through school. Doesn't mean that I was not a good worker. Of course when I wanted a promotion to a position that requried a DL, I was grateful to have a boyfriend at the time who let me use his car to get my license, though I NEVER had to use it for that particular jobl