Your Credit Score Can Keep You From Getting Hired
I was at a presentation by a “futurist” - one of those guys who extrapolates present trends and projects what the future might be like.
To highlight the importance of financial education for youth, he discussed two issues every young person in High School needs to learn.
That at the job interview, employers are looking at not only the “resume” and “credentials” but also the applicants credit score and MySpace page.
Bad credit or crazy posts on MySpace can kill the job offer dead.
This is especially important since kids are getting credit card offers as soon as they’re 18. Kids can develop atrocious credit overnight and be destroyed at the job interview. By eliminating you from certain higher paying jobs, a bad credit rating could reduce your lifetime income by thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.
