A rare handwritten Steve Jobs job application is going up for auction

By Oliver Haslam
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Steve Jobs (Image credit: Apple)

What you need to know

  • A handwritten job application by Steve Jobs is going up for auction.
  • The application will go up for auction later this month.

A handwritten employment questionnaire filled in by Steve Jobs will go up for auction later this month. The Apple co-founder was applying for a role after dropping out of Reed College in 1973.

While we obviously don't yet know what the single sheet of paper will sell for, it's notable that it did sell previously for more than $175,000.

A single page signed job application from 1973 is being offered for sale by auction.In the questionnaire Steve Jobs highlights his experience with "computers and calculators" and special abilities in "electronic tech or design engineer – digital".The questionnaire is believed to have been completed around the time he dropped out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon.A year later he joined Atari as a technician where he worked with Steve Wozniak before they founded Apple in 1976.The application is in very good condition with some overall creasing, light staining and old clear tape to the top edge. It is accompanied by letters and certificates of authenticity.Previously it was sold at auction in 2018 for over $175,000.

First spotted by MacRumors, the application came just a year before Jobs took a role at Atari – a big and important part of the Apple origin story.

The auction itself will kick off on February 24 and will run for a month until March 24.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.