I've worked at a lot of retail/food jobs (I mean at least 8!) where I quit after a couple months. HOW can they check your job history? If I'm trying out for an office job, like an administrative assistant or even a bank teller, are they really going to care that I worked a lot of those unrelated jobs where I bailed a lot when I was like 18/19?
2007-05-20 05:49:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment ➔ Other - Careers & Employment
Yes using your SSI number but most don't . Just don't list the all of them.
2007-05-20 06:00:38 · answer #1 · answered by milldoc 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No they can't. The only central place where your whole work history shows is the social security administration, and those records are protected by privacy laws. IRS records have the information for several years back, but those are also off-limits to searchers other than the individual him/herself.
2007-05-20 15:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a resume or job application is what you want to tell them. they can dig as deep as they want to find information on you if they feel it might help them determine things like whether you are a good security risk. employers like longevity from jobs, but let's be honest... on a resume you want to list more relavent experience to the job you are seeking and don't want to list every single job you have every worked. probably just the most recent. and if you worked restaurants a few years back, chances are that your boss or manager has moved on and isn't even going to be there to verify your employment. when i used to hire people i'd ask them if there were things i wanted to know about time periods where they were not working, etc. you can always explain that you worked several jobs in which you felt mistreated as an employee or were harrassed, etc. and felt the need to quit because you were worried about having bad references from managers who just didn't want to deal with problems with their employees. trust me, there are ways to check out your background, but if most of your "bails" were a few years back, more will rely on your recent references, experience you have relavant to the job (computer skills, etc.) and to even get that far, you'll probably have to pull off a good interview. good luck.
2007-05-20 13:21:13 · answer #3 · answered by Jeffrey J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋