When can a current employeer say when asked for a referance from a prespective employeer?

Question

I am in a really bad work enviorment and looking for a new job. If a prespective employeer calls my current employeer can my current job give me a bad reerance? It has been hinted at that my current employeer is pushing me to quit so I can not collect unemployment insurance. I got a review that was poor(1st one ever in 7 years) and they twisted occurances and flat out made stuf up. I have a really good job lined up pending a backround check but am affraid that if my current job gets called they will give me a very negative review. By the way someone else just gave a 2 week notice and 2 of the 3 remaining people are leaving ASAP. Also in the past year 2 people have been let go and 3 other have left. What laws would apply in California?

Answer 1

You have a right to ask your prospective employer not to talk to your current employer. Your explanation is, of course, that your current employer doesn't know you are contemplating leaving and that you don't want to be forced to show your hand.

Your prospective employer just wants to make sure you aren't lying on your job application about how long you worked there, what your salary was, and how good a job you did. Others can provide this besides the high-muckymucks.

You should provide a suitable alternative reference, such as a colleague, an immediate boss, the secretary, or anyone else at your job that you can trust to keep it under their hat. If needs be, it can be one of the other recent former employees of the company. A mass exodus usually does not reflect badly on you, so perhaps these former employees may make the best choice. They'll hear someone other than you rant about how awful it was to work there, which may make they want to snap you up quick before someone else does.

Going further down the line, at some point you will no longer be working there and still be required to put them on your resume. You will want a short (one sentence) explanation for why you left and why they might give a poor reference. You'll want to continue to use the other former employees as your references. Be a love and let them use you for a reference too.

Answer 2

It's very rare for a prospective employer to contact a current employer for a reference without your explicit permission. They know what impact that contact might have.

Most companies will only verify dates of employment, job title, and maybe starting and ending salaries to avoid any potential legal issues.

Your best bet would to be candid with the prospective employer, to a point anyway. First off, provide references that they can check immediately. Then explain that your relationship with your current employer is strained through no fault of your own and that you'd prefer to not go into all of the gory details. If you do have any good performance appraisals from them, do provide copies of those. If you can exchange reference information with other fleeing staff members, so much the better!

Also keep in mind that employers do tend to accumulate a reputation with other employers -- both good and bad. If your current employer has a reputation for treating employees badly it's very possible that your prospective employer is aware of this and will take any negative information from them with a large grain of salt. Hmmmm... maybe make that a boulder...

Answer 3

1. Call the unemployment office to find out what the employers can say in your state. In Virginia it's your hire date and when you left and verification of how much you got paid...if you put that on the new job application. Where it say can we call your previous employer....say no (you still work there and don't want them to know you are looking) That's not what you put on the application! On the applic you say NO you may not contact my present employer because I don't want to jeopardize the job I have now. You can also put down 3 other professional references (co-workers, former boss? and for a personal one ...a friend with a good job or a minister, teacher etc).
DON'T QUIT UNTIL YOU HAVE ANOTHER JOB!! Let them fire you then. Make sure they send you your COBRA letter(medical insurance)....if they don't....they may have to pay your medical bills (check with your unemployment office about that regulation). Furthermore do not speak badly of your present employer.....HUGE NO NO....and you won't get that "good job"
Call the employment office now and get the answers...if you have a computer, go on line on their website if you can't speak to a person. Good luck

Answer 4

Most employers will only confirm that the person was employed at their site and the timeframe. Most places it's not a matter of law, but of protecting themselves from lawsuits.

And most prospective employers won't call the current employer, who might not know you're looking, so you're probably OK there. The background check would check for things like criminal history, and might include other issues like credit history and your educational background (is it what you said it is) but probably not your current employer.

Good luck.

Answer 5

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