We all have a strong belief that bad CIBIL score means it affects only to our borrowing. But now bad CIBIL score affects your job or employment too. Whether it is Government or private sector jobs, now CIBIL score is a criterion to judge a candidate.
Earlier there were rumours or few instances reported in the media that job offers rejected due to bad CIBIL score. However, here I will show you the confirmation that your bad CIBIL score affects your Government job also. Go through this below job notification of SBI Bank, you will shock to know that how bad CIBIL score affects your job.
Notice the name of the bank and the date of advertisement. It is from India’s number one public sector bank called the State Bank of India. Look at the year of advertisement, it the most recent one.
Now on the same notification, you will find below note.
You notice that under the list of exclusions of candidates, it is clearly mentioned above CIBIL score also. It states “Candidates with record of default in repayment of loans/credit card dues and/or against whose name adverse report of CIBIL or other external agencies are available are not eligible to apply for the post”
Thanks to Mr.Melvin Joseph, who shared it on social media. Actually, verifying your credit score and they approve you as their employee is a global practice. Now it started in India.
Why such an importance to your bad CIBIL score?
Even though it purely affects one’s future borrowing, why employers worry about it? Because such bad CIBIL score means an irresponsible lifestyle or candidate is not serious about money or life. Some organizations (public or private) check CIBIL score only for few roles or posts. However, few started to apply CIBIL score as the criteria for all levels of employment.
The bad CIBIL score indicates your bad intention of not repaying the dues in time. In addition, if you have high debt, then your performance may affect the job. Hence, considering all these aspects, nowadays-financial institutes, and IT companies started to verify your CIBIL score before hiring you.
Is it legal to do such verification?
There is no such legality attached to this verification. However, if you or I as an employer hiring someone, then our first priority is that the candidate must be ethical in all sense. Such cross checking of that ethic is now turned to CIBIL score. Therefore, if employers verifying it, then it is good for the employee too.
However, it may affect to some individuals who are innocent. They may not be a direct borrower or a defaulter, but co-borrowers. But it is purely an individual’s responsibility to check his or her credit score. If there are any errors, then you must request for rectification. Because even a bad credit score due to the wrong entries in a report may not save you. Hence, it is always best to check your CIBIL score often.
One of the best practices is to access your CIBIL score before you apply for a job. If you find any discrepancies there, then rectify it soon and apply for a job.
As of now CIBIL score of an individual will be shared with financial institutes only. Hence, an IT company may not have access to your CIBIL score. However, they may ask you to attach your CIBIL score with your profile while applying for a job.
Whether having a good CIBIL score land you in the BEST job? NO, it is not. However, considering above example, it is now confirmed that your credit score also big criteria. Hence, along with your professional, communication, and educational skills, you must also create a healthy credit score.
Refer our earlier post on credit or CIBIL score-
- How to remove late payments from CIBIL report?
- How to improve CIBIL Credit score?
- How to check CIBIL score online?
- Why you MUST know your Credit Score?
My cibil score is 719 it’s affected my hdfc on role job
Dear Ram,
How can I help you in this?
Sir I am banking aspirant…and took a loan near about 90000 ….if there would be any overdues or bad cibil score…would it affect for the joining of bank job like sbi , ibps…?
Dear Gautam,
Loan will not affect but bad score may be.
Dear sir,
I cibil score is 600 any problem to join private sector bank
Dear Mahesh,
Depends on employer.
I have a write off of 30000 rupees in my account. Will it affect my candidature in sbi or nay other govt bank
Dear Shubham,
Hard to say.
I had a loan account of 50,000
I have submitted that nd taken no dues but my cibil is not updated yet
Will it effect my recruitment in sbi po
Dear Prat,
It may. Hence, better to contact CIBIL or Bank immediately.
I closed the bank educational loan and the status had been showing as write off in my cibil report. Please confirm whether this will affect me in getting government job
Dear Chitra,
I don’t think so.
Hello sir..my cibil score is 665 as of today..is this effected to get any public sector bank job
Dear Srikanth,
Not to that extent.
Dear sir,
If a person is having more then 750 in cibil,but two years back there were few dpd of 25 and even 140 days,will that effect in banking jobs..
Dear Anupam,
Yes.
Hi, great article.
Unfortunately I am also a victim of low cibil score and was looking measures to improve it.
I doesnt make any sense, so it basically gives more power to banks to threaten the customers if there is any issue.
And we all know how difficult it is to get it corrected.
Banks should first think of reducing their NPAs rather than worrying on cibil score of individuals who are applying for job.
So what will Mallya’s cibil score be now??
Raghu-Your comment is valid. But because of SBI asked CIBIL report of applicant and you are against means, you stay away for applying?
This is already known. SBI didn’t allow candidates who had defaulted on their loans recently (from it’s bank) to be eligible to apply. Similarly, an equity based company asks potential candidates to disclose if there are any cases in the past/present from the concerned regulator and if there are any they also do not allow them to be employed in their company. This is a plain and known fact in any industry. I wonder what’s so surprise in this news about SBI except the name of CIBIL! If we try hard everything can be related to CIBIL. It’s better not to make a mountain out of a mole. The title of this article is also just sensationalizing! If you have info please post which companies are using CIBIL score to reject jobs! Except banking companies there is not even a single reported case where CIBIL has got to do anything! It’s pretty obvious why SBI is checking CIBIL is because it acts as a centralized check than checking with each bank. Have not we heard of employer verification from past employers? How different is this?
Sreekanth-You may know this. But cross check how many of actually know this fact. Many even don’t know what is CIBIL or credit score. Even from so called MBA graduates. This is called EDUCATION. Also, I am not here to sensationalize the issues. But bringing facts with proof. It will be a sensation if someone speaks without truth. Hope you understand what is sensationalizing 🙂