Background/employment screening

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What is the name of your state? MS

When employers check your background and employment history, where do they get these reports and how is information on them compiled? Do they use your tax payment history or past credit applications to determine where and for how long you've worked? Or is there some sort of agency to which employers report when you're hired and when you leave?

 

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Or is there some sort of agency to which employers report when you're hired and when you leave?

There is NO agency, public, private or governmental, that keeps a total and complete record of where you worked, where and when you worked there, and the reason you left. NO agency. ANYWHERE.

Agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the IRS, and your state unemployment agency know that you worked for company XYZ during which quarters of the year and what your total wages were. That's it, and that's as close as a total record of your employment exists in any given agency. None of these agencies provide any information whatsoever towards background or employment checks.

Employers may contact any or all of the following: your past employers, driving records, your educational institutions, credit agencies,, criminal records, or other public records. Or, alternately, they may hire a record checking service, who in turn will contact the sources listed above.