Background Check - Get some perspective on this matter
Hey guys,
Just wanted to get some perspective on this matter. I just recently went through a super day. They are doing a significant due dilligence process of my background. Examples are high school transcripts, college transcripts, SAT's, my GRE scores and also a credit check. Have you experienced anything like this? or is something just a little shady here?. FYI it is a small PE fund just under 2B AUM. I've also heard stories about HR going through face book or myspace?.
Oh and i forgot to add a couple writing samples regarding the research i conducted in my econ major. Pretty shocked when i sat with HR to go through all this.
How would HR go through your facebook page?
Easy, they'll have an analyst with an account from your university look at it. If you're private you should be ok, but this is far from uncommon for job interviews/background checks.
As for the credit check, that seems weird but I don't think it should be a concern.
I have no clue thats not the point. Maybe the person has an absurd picture posted or what not that would deter him from getting a position? Just curious if other members of WSO have gone through this. I think the biggest shocker was the credit check.
That's not how facebook works -- you can set your privacy settings so that ONLY your friends can look at your profile (and not any random person from your University network).
Which is why I said "if you are set to private, you should be ok." However, the default setting is for anyone from your network, so it is important to make sure you do change that setting.
HR does these checks to everyone that is going to work at the firm, including credit history
Yeah my credit history isnt the greatest. This is what i was afraid of. pretty much all my campus expense was on credit except for partial tuition. Thanks for the comments
It is common for firms to check the credit history of a prospective employee and to look at their Facebook page (thats why you should change the settings to private), but in my experience it is unusual for them to check your high school transcripts.
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