From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@creditscoring.com] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 2:05 PM To: spytlinski@kxrm.com Subject: credit score, employers, KXRM-TV Fox 21, Colorado Springs You wrote, “Your credit score can help or hurt you every time you apply for a loan, buy car insurance,
The lyrics to FreeCreditReport.com’s latest ditty: Wanted to get myself a new cell phone So I could hear myself at a ring tone Who knew the store would go and check my credit score? Now all they let me have is this dinosaur Hello? Hello? Hello? Can anybody hear me? I know. I know. I … Continue reading A senator, credit scores, losers and fake guitar playing
Consumer reporting agencies Equifax, TransUnion and Experian all state that they do not provide credit scores for employment screening. But in a television commercial for FreeScore.com, spokesman Ben Stein states, “Whether you’re in a financial hole, or just want to get a loan, a better interest rate, or a new job, you’re at the mercy … Continue reading FreeScore.com and Ben Stein: Employers use credit scores
Despite consumer reporting agencies’ emphatic statements that they do not provide credit scores for employment screening, ABC News writes: But your credit score can also prevent you from getting that new job. Many recent applicants — from the newly divorced to recent grads saddled with student loans – are finding that their credit scores are … Continue reading credit score, employers, ABC News
http://www.buffalonews.com/410/story/667793.html http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090517/BUSINESS/905170338/1003/ARCHIVES http://www.ocregister.com/articles/credit-card-rate-2381680-utilization-percent http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/salinas/story/1374724.html http://www.miamiherald.com/136/story/1028698.html http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/michelle_singletary/043009_color_of_money.html http://www.projo.com/business/content/bz_singletary03_05-03-09_DJE6T79_v6.17c60ad.html From: creditscoring.com Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:35 AM To: Michelle Singletary, Wasington Post personal finance columnist (The Color of Money email address); Michelle Singletary (another Washington Post email address for Singletary) Cc: Andy Alexander, Washington Post ombudsman; Andy Alexander (another Washington Post email address for Alexander); Shirley … Continue reading credit score, employers, Washington Post
From: creditscoring.com Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:36 PM To: Steve Ely, Equifax Cc: Ilyce Glink; Coretha M. Rushing, chief human resource officer, Equifax Subject: credit score, employers, Equifax HR You said, “I will tell you, even when you apply for a job at Equifax, we check your credit score because we’d like to … Continue reading Equifax states that it checks its job applicants’ credit scores
Contrary to information from its credit score company, Equifax claims that the portion of the population who have a credit score over 800 is one percent (1%). However, a distribution chart from FICO, the credit score company, indicates that 13% have 800 or more. In a video interview, Steve Ely, president, North American Personal Solutions of Equifax, … Continue reading Equifax states only 1% have credit score over 800
New encyclopedia game contestant Kat Malone removed Wikipedia’s 678 credit score myth on May 22, 2009, after it stood for one year and 9 months. The user challenged the 678 myth in the Wikipedia article “Credit score (United States)” with the deadly wiki “citation needed” flag. Other important and controversial changes in the wiki include capitalizing the word corporation, and that the FICO … Continue reading Credit score myth on Wikipedia dies after 654 days
REPORTER: “Jim, if finances have a heartbeat, it’s the credit score. It affects what you pay for mortgages or rent, your auto loan, your insurance, your utility deposits, and even if you’ll get a job.” From: creditscoring.com Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:52 PM To: Elizabeth Crenshaw (askliz@nbcwashington.com) Cc: Jeff Zucker, ‘news4pr@nbc.com’; ‘nbc4dc@nbc.com’ Subject: … Continue reading Credit score, job, employer, NBC Washington TV station
See http://www.usnews.com/blogs/alpha-consumer/2009/2/26/why-credit-scores-matter-on-job-applications.html. Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:14:49 -0400 To: Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal From: “creditscoring.com” <greg@creditscoring.com> Subject: credit score, employer See https://blog.creditscoring.com/?p=344. This appears in a browser’s title bar for this story: “One in Six Employers Look at Your Credit Score – The Wallet – WSJ” The description of the page that appears … Continue reading Employers, credit score, Wall Street Journal II