Career Planning: What’s a Background Check?

In Career Planning: What’s a Background Check? You will learn what is in a background check for employment. Most background checks include things like credit report, criminal record, identity verification, and other aspects of your life, such as social media profiles. You will learn how to do your own background check to see what a potential employer may find during a check and the benefits of doing so. You will also determine when certain issues may affect your ability to be hired, which may depend on your industry.

This course is part of the Career Planning series and is presented as a narrated video with helpful illustrations throughout the video. It also comes with additional student resources.