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5 Tips on How to Survive an Employer's Credit or Criminal Records Check

Submitted by Jenniferweil

Nov 05, 2008

Summary

What information about you can an employer gather?

More employers are gathering information on potential employees, as the information-gathering process becomes easier and cheaper. To gather information, employers use internet tools such as search engines, blogs, online forums, social networking sites, photo sharing sites and microblogs. Employers also find out information through more traditional means, such as criminal records and credit checks and job tests.

There’s not much you can do to counteract the effect a bad credit report or an arrest record might have on a prospective employer’s opinion of you. And there’s nothing illegal about an employer checking your credit. But if an employer uses credit checks to improperly discriminate against certain groups based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, it is illegal. In the employment law world, it’s called “disparate i Read the full article

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