Originally Posted by TheChallenge

I've had full credit checks before regarding employment, however as others have said it really should only be a concern in areas of the financial industry. The reasoning typically is they don't want to see you owe some outrageous sum in debt that will make it more tempting to embezzle funds. Some government jobs are also the case for security reasons. Overall inquiries don't matter; they want to see a total sum owed, to whom, and types of debt.

If you're not directly having any kind of financial responsibility in the job I would have a serious discussion with the recruiter as to what/how each part of the credit report will be used prior to blindly signing the authorization form.