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Semi-related, but Equifax runs The Work Number, which is basically your "employment credit report / record"; they hoover up the data by agreements with employer
by _huayra_ 4y ago
Semi-related, but Equifax runs The Work Number, which is basically your "employment credit report / record"; they hoover up the data by agreements with employers that they will share employment info with them.
You can freeze your employment record with them here: https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/ https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/
I highly recommend you do this, as any employer could just decide to look you up using this info and you wouldn't be notified at all (unlike, say, a hard pull on your credit in a regular credit report).
- CabSauce 4y agoShockingly, this contains your salary information. Which is pretty dangerous for salary negotiation.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoWhy? you either have a BATNA or you don't.
- eutropia 4y agoEither you have a winning poker hand or you don't - oh wait: bluffing is a thing that people sometimes have to do - even in salary negotiations.
- orev 4y agoIt doesn’t even have to be bluffing. Salary for a new position should be decided based on how much value you can bring to the position, and how much each party is willing to accept. Previous history is the most irrelevant part of the process.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoI wish more engineers understood this If I started hunting for a new job now, I wouldn't take $current*1.05f, I'd go for $MARKET_RATE That's the only number that really matters here when push comes to shove. It doesn't matter how good you are, no local companies are going to pay you $500k/year to act as an individual contributor in Idaho or Tokyo, because the market rate is ~$90k. On the plus side, if you get an offer for a principal FAANG engineer position in the SF Bay, you can negotiate up to $500ish even if your last job was paying $90k.
- wombat-man 4y agoYou might have a shot about bluffing with competing offers/opportunities.
- Balgair 4y agoAre there any other sites like this for the other credit agencies? Are there other services that do something like this that aren't the big three credit agencies?
- noelsusman 4y agoWell I'll be damned. They have everything from my (accurate) current salary to my weekly paychecks from my movie theater job in 2006.
- highview 4y agoDo the other credit agencies have a similar program?
- _huayra_ 4y agoIn the US at least, you have the right to freeze your credit report at any time. I've done it for the big 3 at least (Transunion, Equifax, Experian). It's all free (finally! it used to cost) and you can temporarily suspend the freeze to let someone run a check (e.g. applying for a new credit card).