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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] 2 points 6 days 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 6 days 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