loopdokter
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For the first time EVER in my 15 years of working and starting new jobs, I've had a company hand me a sheet that checks my references using a service called 'Backcheck'. www.backcheck.ca
I am friendly with certain elements of management at my old position and they are cool with providing me with letters of reference and even a proper reference. HOWEVER, my terms of leaving said company are not pretty and I was wrongfully dismissed due to an injury I sustained. I went to the Ontario Board of Labour as a result of this and actually won my case. As such, I'm somewhat worried about this Backcheck place actually checking with the actual company I worked for instead of just the individual references I quoted on this sheet I've filled out.
Is anyone working within a human resources department that deals with hiring first-hand familiar with this service and just how deeply they dig to verify your references? Their website suggests they dig pretty deeply, but I suspect that will only be from the employers side. I doubt very much there's an asterisk beside the 'terminated' portion of my employment record at my former company denoting that I was wrongfully dismissed.
I'm about 90% sure that if my references clear that I will be working a pretty cool new job. I want this job REALLY badly.
Many thanks.
Cheers,
J<
I am friendly with certain elements of management at my old position and they are cool with providing me with letters of reference and even a proper reference. HOWEVER, my terms of leaving said company are not pretty and I was wrongfully dismissed due to an injury I sustained. I went to the Ontario Board of Labour as a result of this and actually won my case. As such, I'm somewhat worried about this Backcheck place actually checking with the actual company I worked for instead of just the individual references I quoted on this sheet I've filled out.
Is anyone working within a human resources department that deals with hiring first-hand familiar with this service and just how deeply they dig to verify your references? Their website suggests they dig pretty deeply, but I suspect that will only be from the employers side. I doubt very much there's an asterisk beside the 'terminated' portion of my employment record at my former company denoting that I was wrongfully dismissed.
I'm about 90% sure that if my references clear that I will be working a pretty cool new job. I want this job REALLY badly.
Many thanks.
Cheers,
J<