I am in the Phoenix Arizona area.
I applied for a job with a major construction company Phoenix via a head hunter.
After a face to face interview and an online HELM test I was asked to provide professional references.
I took the time to gather the references that I believed would shed the best light on my background and specifically left OFF the list my last employer for several reasons.
1 I did not see eye to eye with the general superintendent there.
2. because I did not want the fact that I was even considering going back into the field of construction to make the gossips rounds around the water jug and quickly spread throughout the city that I had recently (nearly 2 years ) 2 years in April left to pursue a career in Real Estate as a private investor. I DID NOT WANT ANYONE TO THINK THAT I HAD FAILED AT INVESTING simply because I hadn’t and because it is none of there business.
I have done well over the last two years but thought I would test the market here in Phoenix to see what sort of wage package I might receive if I decided to go back to work as a on site super of construction.
The employer that I interviewed with and sent the references to via the head hunter went around my written references and called the old employer and spoke directly to the very person that I was trying to avoid in the first place.
I later received an offer for employment from the construction company that was 45K less than I was paid at that old employer.
Was it unlawful for the employer to do this (call some one at a company that I had specifically left off of my reference sheet?What is the name of your state?
I applied for a job with a major construction company Phoenix via a head hunter.
After a face to face interview and an online HELM test I was asked to provide professional references.
I took the time to gather the references that I believed would shed the best light on my background and specifically left OFF the list my last employer for several reasons.
1 I did not see eye to eye with the general superintendent there.
2. because I did not want the fact that I was even considering going back into the field of construction to make the gossips rounds around the water jug and quickly spread throughout the city that I had recently (nearly 2 years ) 2 years in April left to pursue a career in Real Estate as a private investor. I DID NOT WANT ANYONE TO THINK THAT I HAD FAILED AT INVESTING simply because I hadn’t and because it is none of there business.
I have done well over the last two years but thought I would test the market here in Phoenix to see what sort of wage package I might receive if I decided to go back to work as a on site super of construction.
The employer that I interviewed with and sent the references to via the head hunter went around my written references and called the old employer and spoke directly to the very person that I was trying to avoid in the first place.
I later received an offer for employment from the construction company that was 45K less than I was paid at that old employer.
Was it unlawful for the employer to do this (call some one at a company that I had specifically left off of my reference sheet?What is the name of your state?
