Poor credit? Forget about getting that job.
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An article from The Day that says "In the past, only banks and financial service companies routinely ran credit checks on potential employees. But employers in other sectors [a href="vny!://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=01b75bd1-f547-48d9-bcbf-8b4a502a2e55"]increasingly are including [credit checks] in the screening process[/a] to assess applicants' honesty and integrity, traits not readily gleaned from a résumé. US employers' use of credit checks increased 55 percent over the last five years, according to Spherion, a recruitment and staffing firm with offices around the country....
"The credit check has become a general measure of responsibility and organization," said industrial psychologist Carl Greenberg, senior vice president of Spherion. "If you cannot organize your finances, how are you going to responsibly organize yourself for a company? Organization is a measure of responsibility."
