Work verification.

This is not a "one answer" kind of question. it depends on the company that you are applying to.

some will go by your word, some by tax record, some by calling or emailing, the company I currently work for, used a third party service that searched out a data base of employment. I have no idea how that data was generated but unti lI got my dates of employment down to the week they would not verify for me.
I did supply my tax doc's to this employer and they did not except them. Keep in mind, NOT a driving position. all employers have access to the same methods for verifying your employment though.

 

After reading your posting, I quickly Googled, "work verification companies"

Equifax, one of the major credit bureaus out there, does such checking!

And to continue, there is the Medical information bureau as well!

https://www.mib.com/request_your_record.html

so needless to say, Hire Right ain't the only background checking company out there.

Can anyone image all the misinformation ANY of the companies may have on us?

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...v=2&ie=UTF-8#q=+background+checking+companies

 

I have always kept a pocket sized note pad, the one with the wire binder. It goes back to about 10, maybe 12 years of work. Then as the time goes, I rip out the very last job, to keep with-in that 10 to 12 years. i also jot down personal references that many apps ask for. I also of course have times of gaps listed and the reasons.

If any employer (and frankly there are a few) are no longer in business, it ain't my problem, as I at least supplied the "last known" address and phone numbers.

I try to keep past the 10 year point for jobs, just in case some employers will not cooperate with the verification process, and I DO HAVE ONE former employer, that simply answers to NO ONE's requests!

 

Before getting hired by one of the better companies in the industry, I had worked 2 years with a company that did not report to DAC (now USIS, IIRC), and tried and failed to start an internet business. I was able to contact an employee for the defunct business and get them to write a letter documenting my work dates. I then wrote a letter describing my failed internet efforts to cover my 6 months unexplained time.

In your case I would contact customers or vendors for your self-employed business and have them verify your business contact in a letter.

 

Take off work for a year, or two, or three, then go back to school to get your HVAC license, welding license, go to nursing school, go to barber school, etc - pass the class; get your license, and you can get a job no problem. But not in trucking. In trucking you have to go work at McDonalds for 10 years to have a perfect employment history, then you can get hired to sit in a tin box 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and take home less than minimum wage. Trucking is great.

Tell them you decided to take off a year, or however long you wanted, if they don't like it, screw em. Go to school and get your RN license, you can make 70k a year for working 3 days a week. Now that is a life. Sitting in a tin box isn't much of a life. Go get your HVAC license, you can make 60k a year, and go home every day and not have to sit in traffic all day, that's a life too.

 

i was self employed for 35 years
a letter from my accountant has been good enough


that ole retired navy guy probably couldnt catch a striper so he had to go to work

 

Its more about whether a company has been burned by a negligent hiring lawsuit. If they haven't, there's probably not as much of a microscope on your past.