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background checks
Hi! i have been dancing for about three months so far to put myself through school and i recently decided i wanted to be a teacher. But a friend of mine mentioned something to me that i hadn't thought of, background checks. I'm worried that the school i may want to work for in the future will do a background check on me and they will not hire me because i worked at a strip club. Does anyone know anything about this?
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Re: background checks
I believe things only come up if you have a criminal record, and I believe that's all they are allowed to check for too. If your club has a descreet name, just tell them you worked as a cocktail waitress, or if not, just tell them you worked there for a little while as a bartender.
Nothing to jump out of your skin for, at least I think.
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Re: background checks
there are really three major 'paper trails' which can turn up an 'exotic dancing' connection during a background check. The first is obviously the possibility of a girl being (bogusly) busted, which creates a criminal record entry even if the girl is eventually found to be innocent (this can be 'expunged' from a girl's record, but it requires paying legal fees and bringing a separate court action to actually have your record 'expunged'). The second is the necessity of a girl having to apply for a 'dancer's license' in order to work in a particular city - which becomes a part of the official public record and is thus available to just about anyone who chooses to inquire. The last and most widespread is probably entries on a girl's IRS tax return which point to her having worked at a 'strip club'.
For a fact, potential employers interviewing people for jobs that involve working with other people's bodies (medical), other people's money (banking), other people's children (education), other people's votes (civil service) etc. usually put forth a very thorough effort to check backgrounds of prospective job applicants - in the hopes of turning up and avoiding any potential for future aspersions / embarrassment. While there may not actually be any justification to do so, if one of these prospective employers has the choice of hiring a new applicant who once worked as a 'stripper' versus hiring a different applicant who is apparently equally qualified but wasn't a 'stripper', odds are that the employer will wind up putting the 'stripper's application at the bottom of the pile.