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To the HR and recruiting professionals or anyone familiar, do background checks of potential employees usually rely on profiles data brokers have compiled on them? (discuss.online)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do background checks to verify potential employees rely on profiles data brokers have compiled on them? Or do background checks rely on more direct means?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Other industries, I’m sure, are looking for different things based on what they’re hiring for. Where I work, there is a different set of checks we run on folks that work in our finance department, but I don’t oversee that area.

they look at credit scores now to get jobs and that floored me when i worked for a fintech job at a bank holdings company; they were going to reject me because my credit report showed a an overdue credit card account from when i was 8 years old.

it was obviously wrong because no one gives credit cards to 8 year olds; but it was there in all 3 credit reporting agency's reports; they had to get their legal team involved to tell their hr team to let me, a software developer, work at a bank doing software development because of a bad credit score.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Absolute nightmare to get that kind of stuff cleared from your reports. Were you successful?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

nope

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is absolutely wild.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

and a reality in the united states

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most finance jobs run credit reports. People with bad credit are perceived as more likely to steal, which is bullshit in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

it's also bullshit when you consider that the only thing i could steal is source code and; since everything we worked on was open source; i would have absolutely nothing to gain from it. lol