I work for a background checking company… it’s not even close to rare. I know clients that check your education records even if you don’t have any.
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months agoHow many employers even check to see if you went to college unless you got a higher level degree? Maybe a few will ask for transcripts, but it’s rare/
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 8 months ago
MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If they do background checks, they all do.
I used to work as a team lead on a call center help desk that had literally no requirements to get the job outside of a 10 question “technical interview” that features questions such as “can you name three programs that are a part of the Microsoft office suite” and periodically we would have new hires get fired once their background check returned that they lied about having a degree that they don’t actually have.
I don’t know why they lied - degrees aren’t even requested or required for getting the job, but they did and lying on anything that came up on the background check was an immediate termination
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve had jobs with background checks and they still didn’t care. Maybe in technical fields they do, but I’m in media/marketing/advertising design and production and they have never given a shit.
scottywh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In having worked for numerous employees for over 26 years in I.T. I’ve only once ever been asked for my transcript.
candybrie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, transcripts are rare. No one really cares what your grades were as long as you get the degree. Checking that you got the degree you claimed you did is not rare. But you don’t have to do anything extra to prove that; it’ll show up in the background check that pretty much every employer runs.