California Assemblyman Tony Mendoza’s bill to ban employers from performing credit checks on prospective employees has just passed the assembly. According to Mendoza, assessing a person’s credit ...

You survived the interviews. You deftly explained where you see yourself in five years. You managed to sparkle even when you talked about your greatest weakness. Now there’s just one thing standing ...

It's the big day -- you dress to impress, print extra copies of your resume and don a winning smile. Unfortunately, you might be destined to fail before you ever walk into that job interview, despite ...

A new Illinois law banning employers from using credit scores in hiring decisions has led to strong debates over the whether the common practice is a fair measure of an applicant’s eligibility.

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Employers increasingly use credit reports to screen job applicants in the process of determining whether they are unreliable or pose theft risks, according to Bill Hardekopf, CEO of LowCards.com.

BOSTON — More bosses in Massachusetts are weighing the credit worthiness of job candidates before making a hire — a practice that some lawmakers say unfairly keeps people with bad credit from landing ...

If the credit check condition was barring a certain group of potential employees unfairly, then it would behoove someone to focus on hiring this group of folks, at below their otherwise market cost ...

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This is more rant than Boardroom, so Lounge it is. I have student loans that are in default, because I'm unemployed. I just got off the phone with a hiring manager for a technical writing position. A ...