I once applied for a position at a company, went through the interview process and was hired. I received my giant stack of paperwork from HR and just scratched my head at much of the information they wanted. One thing, of course, was permission to check my personal credit history. It was the first time I had ever encountered such a request from an employer.
I told the nice HR lady I was no longer interested in the position and left.
The next day I received a call from the company wanting to know if I would change my mind as I was the most qualified candidate they had interviewed.
I told them my “personal” finances are just what the name implies: personal. I then told her I was applying for a job, not a loan.
I have no idea what my credit score would look like other than being a blank page but it is probably considered “bad.” I have no credit cards or debt of any kind and haven’t had any for decades.
No hard feelings with the company, though. They made what I considered unreasonable demands and I simply found employment elsewhere under terms I found to be more to my liking: I will exchange my labor for an agreed upon wage. Anything else is complete BS that I don’t care to put up with.
Well, they run credit checks on everyone now for anything above the burger-flipper level.