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How extensive are employment background checks?

How do employers run background checks on past employment history?

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    Different companies do it different ways. In general, if they are doing an employment check they would require you to provide them with contact names/numbers of your past employers and either they or an agent they hire would call to those companies to verify start/end dates, salary, rehire status, job title/responsibilities, etc. If it's a criminal or credit background check, they are going to check public records in the jurisdictions that you have lived, or in some cases everywhere. If it's a credit check, they are going to go to a credit reporting agency/company and get their information. In all cases, you must consent to the check in writing.

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It depends on what kind of employment your are looking at. Basically any employer can contact references you list on an application. A lot of employers go much deeper than that including full criminal history ,credit and driving records. As far as checking references they either simply call a previous employer or they contract with a company that does it for them. If they contract it out it is usually disclosed on the application.

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They require you to give references for your prior work and they call those references.

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