How far in the past companies look when doing new hire background check? Do they check work history abroad? And what happens if a company someone used to work for doesn’t exist anymore?
This is about civil companies hiring for a regular position. Not work government or some sensitive jobs.
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In general, none?
They’ll probably be suspicious if there’s years missing on your resume, so they’ll see your employment history that way. Other than that, it’ll be case by case. There’s no rule.
For the gaishikai companies that I know of.
> How far in the past companies look when doing new hire background check?
They check 7 years back in the past.
> Do they check work history abroad?
Yes they do, provided that is within the 7 years limit.
> what happens if a company someone used to work for doesn’t exist anymore?
If the company is reasonable, they’ll work with you to find a solution.
I’ve done it a couple or times for gaishikei. Usually after they give you offer. They were using third party company like HireRight or First Advantage.
You declare all your past company and their contact number if you have them. They will reference their own database, sometime company doesn’t deal with background check and their database will show that. When that happens, they will ask for other form of proof like your gensen or work contract.
But in the end they will only confirm what they can. If they can’t confirm past employment for whatever reason, they will just state that in their report. And it’s up to the hiring company what to do to you. Most hiring companies is just ticking a checkbox. If your past company doesn’t exist no more it shouldn’t really matter that much. They did already gave you an offer after all.
10 years prior work history. If company doesn’t exist, background check company will just state that in the report. It’s not a big deal if you aren’t lying on your resume. If you are lying, you’re fucked, as you should be.
> And what happens if a company someone used to work for doesn’t exist anymore?
Big companies outsource background checks to vendors. After background check is completed, your new employer gets a report where they mark items as “verified”, “unable to verify”, “doesn’t match” and so on. In some cases, you will get access to this report and see which of the items could not be verified. If out of a dozen items you get one or two unverified for a legitimate reason (and you should probably know the reason why) – just explain it to your employer and it will be fine. And I mean, if they end up rejecting you just for that… do you really want to work for them?