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It’s no longer enough to go to a job interview with your CV. A growing number of employers are checking a candidate’s credit history before making an offer. While your credit history may not be the determining factor, employers use it to fill out the picture for many candidates – and not just in the finance field.

42 per cent of US employers, In the year 2006 said that they performed a credit check on employees, a jump from 35 per cent in 2004, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s Weapons in the Workplace Report, which also looks at companies that do criminal background checks on their employees.