After you read the NASDAQ.com story with the common title, “How to Improve your Credit Score,” the writer invites you to take her credit score quiz (titled with another tired cliche: “Do You Know the Score on Your Credit?”). Then, she slams you when you give the correct answer to one of her quiz questions.
Question 2 is “A bad credit score could affect your ability to get a job.”
If you respond with the correct answer, “B. False,” a message in bold, red letters exclaims, “Sorry, wrong!”
The consumer reporting agencies all state that they do not provide credit scores for employment purposes. The Kiplinger’s contributing editor is the same excited Today Show guest (at 5:15) in the creditscoring.com video of electronic media journalists spreading the employers-use-credit-scores myth. She’s been doing it for years.
For more about inaccurate information from NASDAQ, see https://blog.creditscoring.com/?tag=nasdaq.