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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)

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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] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If they are checking data brokers or aggregators it’s not really a background check. Carefully read any consent you give for a potential employer to perform a background check. Look for the records they are accessing and make a determination based on that language.

It is possible that some vendor is the space incorporates data brokers into their service, and that’s hard to tell. But they still should ask for your consent, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Thank you for the insightful response.