Ever feel like you’ve been blacklisted by an algorithm? Is there a way to check your hidden ‘hiring score’? Topic: The Reality of Your Shadow Employment Profile How to Fight Back Most people do not realize they aren’t just being judged by a hiring manager they are being managed by a third party AI driven shadow profile held by massive Consumer Reporting Agencies like HireRight and Sterling. These companies do not just verify your background once they keep a persistent file on you that can follow you across every application you submit for years. They are the black box behind the scenes that decides if you are a risk before a human ever sees your resume. Here is the truth about what they are doing to your career and how to legally reclaim your data: 1 You have a legal right to your File Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act FCRA both HireRight and Sterling are legally obligated to provide you with a Full File Disclosure. You do not need to wait for a rejection letter to request this. You can and should request your full report today. Sterling: sterlingcheck.com/consumer Support/ HireRight: hireright.com/applicants/con… Rights 2 What you are looking for The Kill Switches When you get your report do not just look for pass or fail. Look for the specific tags that are acting as automated disqualifiers: Discrepancy Flags: If you tweaked your resume and it did not match their database you are likely red flagged for Integrity Issues. Ineligible for Rehire: This is a silent career killer. Many corporations embed this note into their records and these CRAs distribute it to anyone who checks your background. Unverified Employment: If a previous small employer is now defunct the machine often marks it as a discrepancy which tanks your score. 3 Take Action Demand a Full File Disclosure: Do not accept a summary. Demand every internal note and discrepancy flag they have attached to your name. Dispute Everything: Under the FCRA if the information is factually incorrect or cannot be verified they have 30 days to fix it or remove it. If they cannot verify it they have to delete it. Stop the Loop: If they produced an erroneous report that cost you a job demand they issue a corrected version to any employer who received the previous report in the last two years. The Bottom Line: These algorithms are designed to prioritize corporate convenience over your human livelihood. They rely on you staying ignorant of your own data. Stop letting them manage you in the dark. Audit your file, correct their errors, and stop apologizing for employment gaps an independent life is not a liability it is a strength. #CareerTransparency #FCRA #KnowYourData #HiringGatekeepers #TruthInHiring

The practice of offshoring has gone on far too long in Illinois. Offshoring takes money away from vital state services and instead puts it towards covering a portion of the Governor's Office payroll. This is why we need #TruthinHiring.

Newspapers around the state are calling on Governor Rauner to sign our office's #TruthinHiring Act.

The @Suntimes urges Governor Rauner to sign our #TruthinHiring Act, among others: "We urge the governor to sign these nine bills this summer to make Illinois a safer and fairer place to live." chicago.suntimes.com/opinion…

Here’s why Governor Rauner should sign my #TruthinHiring bill 👇

The #TruthinHiring Act simply says that if an employee works in the Governor’s office, they will be paid from the Governor’s payroll. It passed unanimously in the Illinois House and the Senate approved it 46-7. It now awaits Governor Rauner’s signature.

.@WhigNews endorses the #TruthinHiring Act ✅ "This is one of the rare issues that most Democrats and Republicans in #Springfield agree upon, and we applaud any such effort -- however small -- to bring state spending into check." READ: bit.ly/2ksLQbr #twill

Thank you, Rockford Register Star & @journalstandard, for your support on my office's #TruthinHiring Act, Vendor Payment Transparent Act, & Prompt Payment Act. #twill journalstandard.com/opinion/…

"Thumbs up: To members of the General Assembly for passing the #TruthinHiring Act, would require governors to pay executive office employees out of the budget set aside for the executive office. #twill " sj-r.com/opinion/20180504/th…

The #TruthinHiring Act passed unanimously in the House and with broad, bipartisan support in the Senate. The Governor should sign it into law. This deceptive practice needs to stop. READ MORE: bit.ly/2jpEJ2R #twill

Read & share: My letter to the editor about why the General Assembly should come together to pass my #TruthinHiring legislation to stop governors present & future from paying their employees from the budgets of other state agencies. #twill dailyherald.com/discuss/2018…

The @altontelegraph gives a 👍 to my office's #TruthinHiring legislation: "Truthfulness is not a partisan issue. It is the foundation of good government." #twill bit.ly/2qXvpHJ

Thank you to @cljmitchell & all of the cosponsors of the #Truthinhiring Act! I am thrilled that it passed unanimously today in the House! #twill

Thank you to all the members of the #Illinois House of Representatives who voted UNANIMOUSLY to pass the #TruthinHiring Act. Now on to the senate! READ: illinoiscomptroller.gov/news… #twill

"But Mendoza knows as well as I do, good government and good politics can, when done well, go hand-in-hand. #TruthinHiring is pro-transparency legislation that empowers the General Assembly to better its oversight of agency spending." #twill bit.ly/2uYnqOU

The #TruthinHiring Act gets a 👍from the @Dispatch_Argus Editorial Board — "There is little to gain and much to lose in opposing a bill to increase transparency, accuracy, and accountability in the governor’s budget by ending offshore staffing." #twill qconline.com/opinion/editori…

Building off the success of the #DebtTransparencyAct, we came together to introduce the #TruthinHiring Act to bring all offshored employees of the Governor's office back into the Governor's budget. #twill ow.ly/QSpt30jebZW

Great to be on @NewsradioWJPF with Tom Miller this morning to speak about about the #TruthinHiring Act, Illinois' $9.29 billion bill backlog & my office's most recent #DTA Report. Give it a listen for an update on IL's finances. #twill wjpf.com/episode/newsradio-w…

The SJ-R on the #TruthinHiring Act: "Off-shoring is a bipartisan bad practice that needs to end. Rauner is not the first gov to off-shore staff salaries. We’d love it if he were the last. All lawmakers should sign on to this good-government legislation." sj-r.com/opinion/20180313/ou…

ICYMI: Last week, I introduced a new #transparency initiative called the #TruthinHiring Act. This bill would end the bad practice of offshoring employees from the Governor's Office to other state agencies. WATCH: #twill