Bad credit and new job.......

One of my very goods had to claim bankruptcy due to her and hubby splitting and no her credit is a mess. She just got laid off from her job and cannot find a new one because of this. I know olot of jobs do credit checks and I feel so bad for her. Any suggestions on where I should tell her look? Thanks!

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I am in the social work field and have never heard of anyone doing a credit check on me. There are other jobs at agencies like where I work that are not necessarily social work-related (ie. secretaries, payroll/billing/accounting, staffing coordinators, etc. etc.).

I would think though if you are in a field that works primarily with $$$$ that this is when this kind of thing would come into play.

Maybe she could look into a home care agency. That is where my job is based out of. Good luck!

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credit check for a job?????

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Does she work in banking? They do check credit for these types of jobs and also if you need to be bonded(dealing with large sums of money etc.)

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I have NEVER heard of a company doing a credit check for a job?? What kind of job is it?

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any company I have worked for - has run a background check - I am in marketing

I assume they pull your credit

If I was in her situation- I would explain what happened before it got to that point

with out any explaination- it seems worse then it is

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My last job I worked at a large insurance company but on the Corporate side as an Exec. Assistant, even though I wasn't dealing with clients or money, I had to have a background w/credit check done. We always did credit checks on people applying in the sales offices. Usually if there was bankruptsy due to divorce, we would escalate it up to someone higher who would make the decision to go ahead and hire or not. Many times we did hire.

I work now for another large insurance company on the IT side, and also had a background/credit check done when I was hired.

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Thanks everyone. I think the jobs she went for had to do w/ finace(not exactly sure). I just haven't heard of credit checks for a job myself so I wasn't sure if this is procedure or not.