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We check criminal records from local and national databases as well as your driving record. Because my industry is working with kids, we're really just checking to make sure you don't have any child abuse or neglect on your record.
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.
Absolute nightmare to get that kind of stuff cleared from your reports. Were you successful?
nope
That is absolutely wild.
and a reality in the united states
Most finance jobs run credit reports. People with bad credit are perceived as more likely to steal, which is bullshit in my opinion.
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