{"id":6728,"date":"2016-03-21T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2018-12-28T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:28:32","slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-your-credit-score-before-applying-for-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/credit\/credit-scores\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-your-credit-score-before-applying-for-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What You Need To Know About Your Credit Score Before Applying For A Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who knew that getting hired for a new position could all come down to your credit history? It\u2019s true. In several states, it\u2019s perfectly legal for employers to pull your credit history during the hiring process. In their opinion, it determines your level of trustworthiness for the position they\u2019d possibly be hiring you for. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although legal, this isn\u2019t something the majority of employers actually do. According to a 2012 survey from the Society of Human Resource Management, only 13% of respondents said they check all employee\u2019s credit history while 53% say they don\u2019t do it at all.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still better to be safe than sorry, which is why there are proactive steps you can take just in case a hiring manager does decide to consider your credit history. You can be proactive by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Checking your credit history for inaccuracies <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cleaning up where you can <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having an explanation ready for derogatory marks <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that getting hired for a new position could all come down to your credit history? It\u2019s true. In several states, it\u2019s perfectly legal for employers to pull your credit history during the hiring process. In their opinion, it determines your level of trustworthiness for the position they\u2019d possibly be hiring you for. Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financeguidetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}