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No way around it, if you want a job with an employer who requires a background check.
Heck, I just had a background check done on me to move into a senior subsidized apartment building. Before Christmas, I applied to be a volunteer bell ringer for the Salvation Army, and they even did a full background check on me lol!
Like someone else said, you'll pretty much have to buy your own house and work for yourself to get around background checks these days.
You need to get over this. You have to provide name, DOB and SSN to any employer. They are not allowed to hire you and pay you without this info.
Credit checks are dip one with one or more of the big three agencies. Like it or not, they have already compiled a file on on you.
Criminal background checks are simply a comparison of your name/DOB/SSN to state or national law enforcement. Again, they already have your info, the check itself doesn't add anything.
It's not like these things are done by some sort of film noire private detective who wears a fedora, smokes cigarettes and refers to women as 'broads'. The check itself doesn't add to a database or create any sort of real record on you.
The reason why I would want to avoid it is simple not having too much personal data floating around the country.
Everytime you get hired an employer checks you each time with different background check provider. Those are private companies that store your private data. I am maybe just a bit paranoid. I was hoping there would be a nicer, cleaner and more elegant solution than giving every time your Name, DOB, and SSN out.
Most employers will utilize an outside company to perform the background check. What information they request depends on what the company wants to discover. In using these outside companies, it places you under the protection of federal (and some state) laws. These outside companies exist for the purpose of proving employment services to businesses and confidence in those companies is very important. Just a rumor of some impropriety can result in serious losses to them. They take some pretty good steps to ensure the integrity of the data they collect.
That is in stark contrast to unregulated data brokers who scour any data connected to you and create a profile and information files that is available to any person willing to shell out a few dollars. I have seen files on people from these data brokers that include information that would be illegal to include in a regulated background check. I have seen photos, posts people made on forums, copies of many different resumes they submitted to various online job ads, they have included current, suspected past emails and list of people associated with the person such as old boy/girlfriends. I have even seen a file where the person’s family's criminal history was disclosed. Don’t fear these legitimate companies; fear the unregulated ones operating under the guide of information freedom on the internet.
Yes, there is a work around but it may take some time.
The steps to follow are:
1. Get a temp job with organized crime.
2. Learn as much as you can about who, what, when, and where buried.
3. Spell your guts to the FBI.
4 Testify at your former bosses and associates trial.
5. Have a contract put out on your head.
6. Go into Witness Protection Program and get relocated to Arizona under a new identity.
7. Apply for job under that new identity as the old stuff will be sealed.
... The check itself doesn't add to a database or create any sort of real record on you.
That is important. So by running a background check it doesn't add anything to a database that a check was run on me?
A question a bit off topic. Since Name, DOB, and SSN must be submitted to any employer, has it ever happened that an employer would misuse such information?
That is important. So by running a background check it doesn't add anything to a database that a check was run on me?
A question a bit off topic. Since Name, DOB, and SSN must be submitted to any employer, has it ever happened that an employer would misuse such information?
A background check is a check of records and documents that already exist; it does not create a document that goes into some kind of "background file."
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