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What's to stop you from running the same check on yourself, so you can see what the employers are seeing?

If anything this scenario makes the hiring process more transparent.

You only have access to the applicant-facing side of the software, one that will dispense you an Employ ID, an application template, and will enable you to track the status of your application. To prevent people from abusing the system and finding workarounds, employers need to apply to be given an employer license that lets them use all the convenient filtering tools. Most tech companies have already bought one, as did all the large companies. Places like individual McDonald's franchises use their greater company's license. It's not a completely watertight system, but monitoring is just stringent enough to make your detailed application info inaccessible for nearly everyone. Maybe if you have the right credentials, or if you manage to fool the megacorp into believing that you're an actual employer, it's possible.

Why would you have access to the software?

Do you currently run the various automated resume parsing software that employers use? I mean - do you even know what the software is? Like even a name or something? No?

Wrong question. What would enable you to run the same check?

Even if you could, how could you possibly correct the process? In the USA, it would probably take many years, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court, and the big bucks win anyway.

AI believers, pay attention and stop your downplaying and justifications. This can hit you too, or your healthcare. The machine doesn't give a damn.

The FCRA would likely already require that you can receive a copy of the check.

Paying the company that sells the service of checking for you.

You're assuming the software gives the same response to every user. Or even gives the same response twice. And if it does .. how do you correct it?

Worker blacklists have been a real problem in a few places: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-36242312

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