how do employers run background checks on past employment history?

Question

how do employers run background checks on past employment history?

Answer 1

By either calling the references you provided or using a third-party company to do the background checks for them. And yes, based the other answers provided, they contact prior employers, personal references and doing criminal records check. Some places are more thorough and look at your driving records and credit history.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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