topic Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process... in Credit Cards

LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:56:55 GMT

Has a bank/CU ever access your LinkedIn Profile during an application?

NASA FCU accessed my LinkedIn profile...first time seeing this.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

IntegerIntrovert — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:07:50 GMT

How do you know this? Can you share details?

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

NoMoreE46 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:08:48 GMT

huh - interesting, please provde details

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:12:46 GMT

LinkedIn notifies you when your profile has been viewed. Today they also ran a HP for a PLOC.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

MySunrise271 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:13:53 GMT

I believe if you are a premium subscriber, you will receive notifications from LI when someone views your file. You may also receive these notifications at the free level, but their name may not be visible. When I switched my home and car insurance, I received a notification that the agent I was working with had viewed my LI profile.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

NoMoreE46 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:18:33 GMT

That is what I thought. Interesting using social media type sites to back end validate your profile.

@RickNATL wrote:
LinkedIn notifies you when your profile has been viewed. Today they also ran a HP for a PLOC.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

Windchill92 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:00:39 GMT

I mean if it's a credit underwriter that's acceptable, but it kinda sucks from a privacy standpoint. I checked and I don't think there's a way to disable your profile's visibility to non-connections.

As a side note, for the longest time I've thought LinkedIn's setting page kinda stinks. Some of their 5-6 word setting phrases don't make sense until you click into the setting to change it.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

CreditCuriosity — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:02:13 GMT

Also noticed this recently as well but by a different CU and wasn't for a new account either. I found it a bit strange trying to remember what CU it was but was a few weeks ago I need to circle back as doubt that CU is looking ot hire me with my skill sets. So something is going on here maybe making sure what I said i did for a job was in line with what I told them as believe I did have a credit account with them. Trying to find out whom it was as don't have premium linkedin but it did show me the name. Need to search through my emails.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:25:19 GMT

You don't have to be Premium to get the notifications. This person didn't update their privacy to not show a name. Or it might be a default that anyone in underwriting uses. Who knows.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:26:04 GMT

Interesting @CreditCuriosity ...if you remember, please share.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

CreditCuriosity — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:49:24 GMT

@RickNATL wrote:
Interesting @CreditCuriosity ...if you remember, please share.

@RickNATL It was actually BCU (Baxster Credit Union). Just remembered. Found it strange and been with them over a year and have one CC with them. Was it an account review? Maybe it was for a job but certainly strange.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:10:59 GMT

@CreditCuriosity definitely don't have any accounts with them, nor applied for a job. Their LI profile is also vague...

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:38:27 GMT

@RickNATL wrote:
Has a bank/CU ever access your LinkedIn Profile during an application?

NASA FCU accessed my LinkedIn profile...first time seeing this.

I had read a thread or three somewhere with in the past year about how the X1 card issuer was stalking it's users on social media and I think I remember LinkedIn being mentioned as well. I believe it was reddit, but no amount of keyword searching is bringing it up.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:59:34 GMT

@Anonymous I'm going to see what I can find.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:05:26 GMT

This article from 2015 is interesting...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/could-your-linkedin-profile-be-your-new-credit-score_b_7313454

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

MySunrise271 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:23:01 GMT

@RickNATL wrote:
You don't have to be Premium to get the notifications. This person didn't update their privacy to not show a name. Or it might be a default that anyone in underwriting uses. Who knows.

@RickNATL thanks for the clarification.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:41:08 GMT

@Windchill92 you can definitely cut down what a non-connection can see; under Settings, then "visibility"...including what can be searched or seen via a search (google, etc.) to include show/no show your photo, current or past experience, degrees, etc.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

Windchill92 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:01:50 GMT

Yeah I know I can adjust my profile’s Public page (i.e. indexed by search engines) to those not logged in…

I was referring to adjusting visibility to logged-in non-connections. When cruising through the My Network page, some distant (3+ order) connections I can’t even view their profile b/c either we’re too far network-wise or they’ve disabled/limited viewing. Would be nice to limit viewing, but I know LinkedIn wouldn’t like this.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

RickNATL — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:08:14 GMT

@Windchill92 I had not looked into that.

Re: LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:16:17 GMT

So there is a belief that linkedin profiles are a trusted source? Probably not for the real bad actors!