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I could be wrong, but I don't think that's something you can get removed from your credit report. If I were you, I would run one on yourself so you can see what future employers will be seeing and know exactly what you're dealing with.
Don't worry though, your boss isn't going to go around telling your future co-workers that you worked in a strip club, or likely any other aspect of your credit report. It's not like bosses hand out copies of your resume/credit report/background check to all the other employees.
Babe, you shouldn't feel awful. There are so many support jobs in a strip club that are not stripper and even if it was known you were a stripper, it's a legal job and there should be no shame. Do not feel diminished!
You did an excellent job covering, and of course you could make some additional believable cover if you want though it's proably not necessary.
You are a valuable person with great skills to offer this company and they are lucky to have you!
Take some deep breaths and trust that they're going to learn how valuable and great you are really quickly and not care about the strip club.
HR shouldn't mention this to anyone but her higher ups so as long as they're professional, it shouldn't be office gossip.
That sucks that it shows up at all though... Now I'm wondering if I've got a bunch of strip clubs on my background check. I've never worked at a club that made me fill out tax info or any paperwork beyond the real name, age, emergency contact, yes I read the rules paper that they keep for their file, but I do have a sheriff's card from Vegas. It's crazy how things can follow you, especially when you didn't even do anything wrong...
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Good job on the cover story.... Sorry you had to lie about it at all.
I've had a stripclub come up in my background check in a similar way -when I was trying to get an more expensive apartment many years ago 7 had to verify that i was employed so I stated where I worked at the time. Unfortunately, when mine came up was when my parents were cosigning for me to get a new car & the dealer pulled it up (they did not know & still do not know). Luckily, I played it off as a mistake.
Now as for trying to hide my stripclub work -I'm not able to even attempt that, otherwise I'd have an almost 10 year work gap on my resume I'd have to try & explain away. So I have to include stripclub on my resume, but I lie & say I was a waitress/bartender & list my duties that a waitress would have. I think the only reason it's believable is because all my past jobs on my resume were all service industry oriented. On the brightside, it does look good in some of my interviews that I stuck w/ a "company" on & off for almost 10 years, right! ;)
So I feel ya. Maybe, also if your on good terms w/ the management at the particular club -call them ahead of time & tell them what going on & ask if they'll help cover for you. I'm sure your not the only girl that's had this happen & they've heard of it, right. Good Luck!
good save with saying you were a makeup artist.
i think you will be ok. you shouldnt be ashamed of dancing. it sucks that or society forces you to hide it.
I don't think you have anything to worry about. These days some companiess like to do the credit check as another way of measuring responsibility and sometimes assesing wether you'll steal from them. If an employer sees large amounts of debt and tons of credit cards for one applicant but then another has only one cc a car they paid off and a mortgage, they may view the latter as a more responsible decision making kind of person.
But in regards to HR telling others about the employer, I see there being legal issues with them telling the information to every Nancy and Joe they see. From what I understand (someone correct me if I'm wrong), it's kind of like HIPPA in the medical industry. Only those on a need to know basis are allowed to have the information disclosed to them. So an up top manager that has say in you being hired MIGHT have the "work experience" disclosed, but they can't go telling all the peons.
Kudos on the quick thinking about the make up artist thing too btw.
Actually the credit check really proves nothing and it's really an invasion of privacy that employers check to get in people's businesses. I know people with great credit who are thieves and those with poor credit who fell on hard times.Many states are outlawing credit checks except in certain situations and I agree.
This happened to me years ago when I ran a credit check on myself. It listed a company that ran a club I worked at and also the company I started. Luckily in both cases they are defunct and neither company even sounded like an adult entertainment business. I haven't checked my credit lately but both are so long ago at this point they likely aren't even on my credit anymore.
I'm assuming that the criminal background check is separate from the credit check -to my knowledge. Example being, my background is clean as a whistle, but my credit is shitty -or visa versa.
Certain jobs I understand definitely, do both checks to my understanding -such as banks I believe & what not. But those businesses of the sort make more sense having to do that sort of thing, understandingly.
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^There's always freezing your credit report: http://www.experian.com/consumer/security_freeze.html
It can be inconvenient, but if you want more control over who can check it, then you may want to look into it.
People 'checking' your report doesnt always negatively impact your score. It depends whos checking and why. If its something you instigated - like applying for credit- thats a hard inquiry, and it counts. But soft inquires dont count. Background checks are soft. Companies that pull credit reports to send pre-screened offers (junk mail) dont count.
You can get your credit report for free from all 3 agencies once a year or any time you were turned down for credit. Go to https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp
It sounds like the club got on your report because you 'put it there'. By applying for the car loan and saying you worked there someone some where entered them in as your employer. You need to obtain your credit reports and find out which credit agency has them listed as your employer. It could be one, it could be all three. Then follow their instructions on how to remove incorrect information.
You should be aware it could take months to get inaccurate information removed from your credit report. It may also take several attempts. Meaning you may have to send in several requests and keep harassing them to do it.
But alteast it seems like it worked out. She still wants to meet you- which is great. In person you can apologize for omitting it. Like the above poster said- say it was a real part time thing you did waaay back when. You did it on weekends for some spare cash and you just 'forgot' to put it on your resume because it was so trivial and make up artist? You earned a total of 600 bucks over 3 weeks in 2009 lol.
In the future though, just keep in mind when applying for something with a background check, until you have it taken off your credit report, it will show up, so if the job is going to require a background check- put make up artist or something down, because it will come up.
Instead of freaking out--not that I blame you--you should be buying yourself a magnum of champagne and celebrating a great victory.
Nothing like being faced with the loss of everything you've worked for if you make the slightest mistake. One wrong word and it's a done deal. But no, you dealt with it and kicked ass and saved your job, it's pretty clear. Well done!
Furthermore, it's a good thing this happened now with an internship, instead of a few years down the road when you are in line for CEO or something. Now you can take steps to have it eliminated, or at least be prepared to deal with it if it ever comes up again.
Oh and also congrats on having picked Scarletts. That is the best stripclub in South Florida, in my opinion. There's bigger, there's more famous ones maybe--but it's the best to hangout in by far, as far as I could tell.
Thank you for posting this, like really, THANK YOU. I said I worked at a club when applying for financing on a surgery for my cat when he broke his leg 2 years ago, tooootally forgot about it until just now. good god that better not be on my credit report, but at least if it is I can follow the above steps to try and get it removed. Hopefully you still get the job, OP, but if you don't, an idea for the future if you can't get that club off your credit report...maybe add a little blurb in your resume about "freelancing" as a make-up artist during the years you stripped? You don't have to specify any places and that way it would look totally legit with the explanation you gave if it came up again, plus I think that's pretty much the best cover you could have, it's completely independent and therefore pretty untrackable!
What is the bset way to run a background check on urself? i know how to check my own credit..
This whole concept of background checking stresses me out...Im not worried about the credit bc mine is good...But still..
Your resume isn't supposed to be an exhaustive list of all of your work experience, but rather a way for you to highlight why you are the right person for THAT job, and so should really only include relevant positions. Like, if you're applying to be an accountant, it doesn't matter that you worked at Dairy Queen 7 years ago, so don't worry about putting this on your resume. It's fine to have irrelevant jobs that didn't make it onto your resume come up in your background check.
The only time you should worry is if you have to fill in a job application that asks you to list all of your employment. It's rare, but it does happen, and in that case you should include your job as a "make up artist." If a job comes up in your background check that you didn't list then, it's a bit more serious since they'll be wondering why you omitted it when they explicitly asked for all of your work experience.
^This is true. When I was still in undergrad, I went into the career center to get my resume critiqued and one of the ladies working there told me to just put Relevant Work Experience above my former job positions.
Agreed. On my resume I only list jobs that are relevant to those I am applying for such as marketing, instructional design and broadcasting. I do not list model, or dancer, or any previous job not related unless it is a job specifically wanting that info, like a recent job requiring marketing and retail experience.
I wanna hear how the interview goes!
I'm sorry that happened, OP! A couple of years ago when I quit stripping for a while, I expressed my concern over that happening to my therapist at the time. She was a pretty hard-ass woman, and she suggested that if it were to ever happen, I could simply own it with confidence and emphasize in an interview all of the positive attributes I gained in my dancing career (money management, business sense, communication skills, etc.). Obviously, it wouldn't be wise to go back on your claim as a makeup artist, but I think "owning" the fact that you worked in an SC at all and turning it into a big positive in your interview could make you an impressive candidate. :) Good luck!
Also, I'm just curious if anybody here knows: if a dancer were to start an LLC and treat her business as a freelancing career, could this potentially give her verifiable income and simultaneously a "cover story?"
I write freelance and strip, and have been contemplating starting an LLC, but I'm curious about the legalities of pouring my freelance AND my stripper income into the same umbrella business. There shouldn't be anything wrong with that, right?
Also, doing this could potentially avoid the hassle of having to cover up years of supposed "unemployment..."
***^Moved this to a separate thread in Dollar Den, go here if you have an answer for me: http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sho...ion-about-LLC-)
^You should start a separate thread with that question in Dollar Den, I think. There are some very business/money savvy posters on this board, but they may not happen upon your question here.
Inspired by this thread, I did a search for "Would You Hire an Ex Stripper" Lots of interesting, and uplifting, results!
https://www.google.com/search?q=woul...hrome&ie=UTF-8
I think at the end of the day, every company wants and needs highly qualified individuals who will make them $$$. I'd present yourself as that person and focus on that as a reason to hire you. At the end of the day, companies want to bank, and companies can say alot of things about strippers but one thing you cannot say is that they don't know how to deal with custies, make sales, and BANK!
Related: My favourite news article ever, this woman pretty much credits her entire life success to stripping. If a job interview ever turned south in terms of an exotic dancing past coming up, I'd spin the story Diane Passage style:
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainmen...OV5mNBVzIA2B9M