Home > Standard Email Screening Questions Form Standard Email Screening Questions Form Applicant:(Required) Date MM slash DD slash YYYY Email(Required) Position Applied For:(Required) As you are aware, employees of the Ada County Sheriff’s Office [ACSO] are held to a high standard in our community. Accordingly, the Sheriff has high expectations regarding the moral character of all employees. The ACSO is not looking for “perfect” people but is seeking people who are perfectly honest about their backgrounds and life experiences. If you answer “yes” or any questions require an explanation, please provide an explanation. If no details are needed put N/A. Integrity is a pillar to the ACSO, any omissions can result in an immediate discontinuation of your application. 1. What do you know about and why are you interested in working for the ACSO?(Required)2. Have you reviewed the job description for the position for which you applied?(Required) Yes No 3. Why have you applied for this position specifically?(Required)4. Have you read the ACSO Hiring Standards? View Hiring Standards: if you are selected to receive a conditional offer of employment, a polygraph examination will be administered to verify your responses to the standards. (Required) Yes No 5. ACSO policy is to only hire applicants who do not smoke or use simulated smoking products. As you have read the ACSO Hiring Standards, we ask applicants to refrain from smoking tobacco or using simulated tobacco products. Have you smoked any of the following products in the past three [3] months: cigarette, cigar, e-cigarette, vaporizer, pipe, hookah, and/or cloves? Chewing tobacco and snuff are excluded.(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answerEMPLOYMENT HISTORY6. Do you have any gaps in your work history?(Required) Yes No • If yes, please explain7. Are there any other jobs you have held in the past five [5] years that you have not mentioned on your application, such as part-time, short-term jobs, internships.(Required) Yes No • If yes, please explain8. Did you ever leave any of your past jobs under less than favorable conditions, i.e., bad feelings or tensions?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer9. Have you ever been “fired” or let go? If so, list the employer and reason[s]?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer10. Have you ever been told or asked to leave a job?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer11. Have you ever resigned in lieu of termination?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer12 Have you ever left a job under mutual agreement?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer13. Have you ever walked off a job?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer14. Did you ALWAYS provide appropriate notice when leaving past employers?(Required) Yes No If no, explain your answer15. Would any past employers provide less than favorable recommendations?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer16. Would any of your past employers not rehire you?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer17. If/when we contact current or previous supervisors, what would he/she say about your work performance, attendance, punctuality, reason for leaving?(Required)18. What are the best/worst thing[s] someone will say about you at current/previous employers? Best:(Required)Worst:(Required)19. Have you ever been:• Reprimanded [oral or written]?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Counselled for job performance issue[s]?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Suspended?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Demoted?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Placed on job-related probation?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer20. Have you ever been the subject of a workplace or internal investigation regarding allegations of misconduct and/or violations of company/organization policies?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer21. Has a customer or coworker ever made a complaint against you?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer22. Have you ever falsified any official report or work document, to include time/attendance documents?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer23. Have you ever helped someone cover up their inappropriate/illegal actions at work?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer24. Have you ever released, given away, been coerced, or received any kind of compensation for providing any sensitive or confidential information to persons without the need to know?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer25. Have you ever taken anything from an employer for which you did not have permission, other than very limited items of consumable office supplies such as pens, pencils, paper?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer26. Have you ever taken and converted any company-owned equipment to personal use?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer27. Have you ever taken money or other financial instrument from an employer?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer28. Have you ever been issued a company credit card?(Required) Yes No 29. If so, did you ever use it to purchase items for strictly personal use and/or not authorized by policy?(Required) Yes No N/A If yes, explain your answer30. Have you ever used a company-owned computer or other information technology device in an unprofessional/inappropriate manner? This would include the introduction of unauthorized, pirated software and/or accessing pornographic, inappropriate sites?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answerILLEGAL DRUG USE31. Have you used marijuana or any product containing THC in any form within the last 1 year? This includes use in locations where it has been legalized and use for medical reasons.(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer32. In the past five [5] years have you used ANY illegal drugs? Cocaine [crack or powder]? Methamphetamine? Heroin? LSD? Opium? PCP? Psilocybin mushrooms? Ecstasy? Spice? Bath Salts? [If yes, please provide specifics – date[s], number of times, how/where acquired].(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer33. Have you EVER used ANY marijuana/THC product or illegal drugs in your lifetime? This includes use in locations where is has been legalized and used for medical reasons. [If yes, please provide specifics - date[s], number of times, how/where acquired].(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer34. Have you ever misused or abused any prescription drug[s] whether it was yours or someone else’s?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer35. Have you ever snorted, inhaled, or huffed any substances such as glue or paint in order to get high?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer36. Have you ever purchased, injected or used illegal steroids?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer37. Have you ever purchased, manufactured, grown, sold, and/or transported ANY marijuana/THC product or illegal drugs? [If yes, please provide specifics – date[s], number of times, involved substances, location[s].(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answerLAW ENFORCEMENT INVOLVEMENT38. Have you ever been: • Arrested?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Detained by law enforcement for any reason?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Served a protection, no contact, restraining order?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Contacted by law enforcement for any other reason[s], to include coming to your home or workplace?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Investigated or questioned by Law Enforcement regarding a misdemeanor or a felony? (**Please include any situation where the sentence was imposed, suspended, deferred, or withheld, regardless of whether the plea or conviction was withdrawn, dismissed, or expunged.)(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Convicted of ANY felony? (A case-by-case review of juvenile felony convictions will occur).(Required) Yes No • If yes, explain your answer• Convicted of a misdemeanor? (This includes time as a juvenile. Convictions of domestic battery or violence, child abuse, stalking, or voyeurism are considered disqualifying).(Required) Yes No • If yes, explain your answer39. Do you have regular contact or dealings with anyone who:• Uses illegal drugs, this includes marijuana?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Is under criminal investigation?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Is currently on probation or parole?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer• Is currently, or within the past 6 months, in jail or prison?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer40. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member or associated with a criminal enterprise, street gang, or any group that advocates violence?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer41. Have you ever engaged in domestic violence?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer42. As an adult, have you ever physically injured another person? (Lateral applicants: applies to off duty only)(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer43. (Prior Law Enforcement or Military Experience) Have you ever used excessive force against another person?(Required) Yes No N/A If yes, explain your answer44. Have you been convicted of DUI in the past three [3] years? Withheld judgments are included.(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer45. Has your driver’s license been suspended in the past three [3] years relating to refusal to submit to DUI chemical test or points accumulated due to moving traffic violations?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer46. Have you ever operated a motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence [i.e., “buzzed”] to the extent you felt impaired and should not have driven?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer47. Have you ever testified in court?(Required) Yes No If yes, have you ever given false or altered testimony? Yes No 48. Have you ever been sued in civil court?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answerPREA (PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION ACT) STANDARDS49. Have you engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility, or other institution?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer50. Have you been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer51. Have you ever been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described above?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answerOTHER52. Do you have active applications with other law enforcement agencies, city/county/state agencies, or private employers?(Required) Yes No Current status of each?53. Have you previously applied with other law enforcement agencies, this includes the ACSO?(Required) Yes No Which agencies? When? Result[s]?54. Have you ever been discontinued in the hiring process after conducting a lie detection examination or background investigation?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer55. Have you ever not completed training or probation with any law enforcement agency?(Required) Yes No If yes, explain your answer56. What else would you like to be known about you that is applicable to the job for which you have applied OR that is related to our hiring standards?57. Do you have any questions?
