If this is correct, then it would be risky for someone to lie to a new employer about their former salary in order to receive an offer for a higher pay, because the new employer could use this service to cross check the employee's claims.
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#13I checked earlier today and yep, my employer is selling my data and future earnings potential to the company that is infamous for poor data security. A confounding factor is that as a hiring manager, and at least for all the hiring decisions I have been involved in, I know we did not use this to check candidates. So what's the upside? EDIT: ADP Workforcenow appears to do this automatically. I'm curious to find out if…
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#16If this is correct, then it would be risky for someone to lie to a new employer about their former salary in order to receive an offer for a higher pay, because the new employer could use this service to cross check the employee's claims.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can anyone say it’s accurate?
Employers provide it. Obviously they could report incorrectly, but it's not like Equifax is just guessing.
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#18Who is selling the salary data to equifax?
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#20what is the work number? is this deliberately a confusingly made up name of company and what they do?