Re: credit check for interviews

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On 3 Feb 2003 at 8:24, Sean Hower wrote:

> Last Friday, NPR ran a story about how companies run credit checks on
> potential employees. I was surprised, I don't think this has happened
> to me....has this happened to anyone else? Under what conditions did
> this occur? What were the results?

In the 80s I worked for Georgia Tech Research Institute; we worked 
on defense contracts for MICOM. Once a year we were given a "pep 
talk" by GTRI's director of security on how to lessen our chances of 
becoming a target for espionage. Among those risk factors were 
substance abuse and financial difficulties. When I got my security 
clearance, they did a background check, but I don't think they did a 
credit check. 

At another place I worked, one of our employees was always having 
some institution or another contacting us to garnish his wages. I 
think that was a real PITA for the payroll/accounting folks. 

So... "fair" or not, I think companies have their perceived reasons for 
running credit checks...

Dana W. 


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