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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 3 weeks ago by Jobseekers@discuss.online to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] digger@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 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.

[–] collagenial@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That is absolutely wild.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

and a reality in the united states

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