diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a76debe9e6f..e599e25583a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 - Fix memory leak of `keda-metrics-apiserver` by setting a controller-runtime logger properly ([#1654](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1654))
 - Add `publishRate` trigger to RabbitMQ scaler ([#1653](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1653))
 - AWS SQS Scaler: Add Visible + NotVisible messages for scaling considerations ([#1664](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1664))
+- Fixing behavior on ScaledJob with incorrect External Scaler ([#1672](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1672))
 
 ### Breaking Changes
 
diff --git a/pkg/scaling/scale_handler.go b/pkg/scaling/scale_handler.go
index 6b02b8ea32e..f038f9f577c 100644
--- a/pkg/scaling/scale_handler.go
+++ b/pkg/scaling/scale_handler.go
@@ -245,8 +245,10 @@ func (h *scaleHandler) checkScaledJobScalers(ctx context.Context, scalers []scal
 		scalerLogger := h.logger.WithValues("Scaler", scaler)
 
 		metricSpecs := scaler.GetMetricSpecForScaling()
-		// skip cpu/memory resource scaler
-		if metricSpecs[0].External == nil {
+
+		// skip scaler that doesn't return any metric specs (usually External scaler with incorrect metadata)
+		// or skip cpu/memory resource scaler
+		if len(metricSpecs) < 1 || metricSpecs[0].External == nil {
 			continue
 		}