Personal Credit Check for extension?

[jimjamuk]

Hi Guys,

contract finishes tonight a 5pm and end client wants me in this weekend - to cut a long story short - extension has come through with the added rerquest of the client requiring a personal credit check of all consultants. Need to sign (or not) by 5 - any thoughts?

Personally as with everything else I'm happy for them to crdit check my Ltd but on a personal level the can FA......

jimjamuk

[oracleslave]

Hi Guys,

contract finishes tonight a 5pm and end client wants me in this weekend - to cut a long story short - extension has come through with the added rerquest of the client requiring a personal credit check of all consultants. Need to sign (or not) by 5 - any thoughts?

Personally as with everything else I'm happy for them to crdit check my Ltd but on a personal level the can FA......

jimjamuk

Have never had this happen to me before. Credit checking your limited sounds like a reasonable enough request but why they would need to do a personal one I am unsure. Anybody else had this?

[expat]

Hi Guys,

contract finishes tonight a 5pm and end client wants me in this weekend - to cut a long story short - extension has come through with the added rerquest of the client requiring a personal credit check of all consultants. Need to sign (or not) by 5 - any thoughts?

Personally as with everything else I'm happy for them to crdit check my Ltd but on a personal level the can FA......

jimjamuk

Every credit check made reduces your credit rating....

Anyway, it is they who are going to owe you money, it is you who should run a credit check on them.

[Dow Jones]

Pretty standard

Standard process for all finance (and lately loc/nat gov't) jobs/contracts. Don't want any desperados lurking around.

[HYpno27]

Seems a bit odd. Not had a personal credit check in over 10 years contracting.

If it's for a finance company they may be being a bit over zealous.

Have you asked them why?

[jimjamuk]

exactly!

Just mailed them for a reason - gonna sit it out and get an answer first.

[jimjamuk]

no for a telco working on a gov secure project - I can only imagine its because its a secure project but I thought that was covered by my SC clearance.

this is my 3rd extension and no-one has asked before....

[Ardesco]

Every credit check made reduces your credit rating....

Anyway, it is they who are going to owe you money, it is you who should run a credit check on them.

Not true, too many or too few credit checks reduce your credit rating, and an average number of checks (I think it is something like 4 a year) actually improve your credit rating.

[miffy]

I've had it done twice when I worked for a consultancy.

Both financials though.

Still, I think the check they do is non-intrusive. I check my records regularly and theres no footprint from either of those previous checks.

Nothing to worry yourself about.

[oracleslave]

I've had it done twice when I worked for a consultancy.

Seriously? I worked for 4 different consultancies over a 10 year period and never had that or even heard of it.