Bad Refrences From Prior Employeur

I've had friends that had the same issue...Don't use the previous employer as a reference, use vendors, patients and co-workers, people that you interacted with instead or along with...If a new employer won't look at whole picture, do you really want to work for them?

 

by law an employer can only say the dates you worked there. nothing else.

i will give yo the address to a website, where for a fee, they will send out for references from past employers. if they get bad references from any of them, you can take them to court, as this company goes to court with you to sue them....


http://www.badreferences.com/index.html

 

They can say if they would hire the person back if asked. That carries some weight there if the company is making close decisions. This is precisely why I say go face to face if you can. The employer has nothing to go by if just looking at a job application. If you could explain your situation in person don't you think you'd have a better chance?

 

yes, they can say eligible or not for rehire, but then that's "supposed" to be all....

 

Take her out of the loop on this - in trucking, there's an official form a previous employer has to fill out showing what equipment you operated, states, accidents, drug test info, etc - there's no such thing for employers outside the trucking industry.

Example of how to handle this - I busted my general manager (car biz) for embezzlement when I was a finance guy... at the same time, I as getting ready to move back home to Texas, and knew that he'd be fielding questions about me during the brief time before the investigation was done (he did jail time)...

I REALLY needed a good reference and a job right away, so I took him out of the loop - I used my sales manager as my employer reference and gave out his cell number instead of the store's number. He got the call, gave the reference, and eliminated the possibility for the GM to screw me up for catching him and get some payback.