Credit check/Medical Check

[2BIT]

it can take 5-6 weeks, a friend of mine went through the same and heard nothing for almost a month... check your credit report to see if they have done the credit check and maybe contact the agency doing the background check

banks don't move fast for permie roles IMLE

[lightng]

Mine took about a month - it was like extracting teeth. They dug out the fact that my start date for a job seven years previous didn't quite tie up with what was on my CV. It was a whole two weeks out. Whoopee freakin do.

I found the whole process very intrusive. They looked at things like the number of sick days I had off in my last permie role which was five years previous - I thought it was completely over the top. I genuinely expected them to start questioning me about the time I stole an extra exercise book from the store cupboard at junior school.

Other people seem to sail through their checks in under two weeks. Maybe its because I'm dishonest.

[Svalbaard]

Credit checks in the finance industries should come back almost instantaneously - I guess it depends on which system your agency are using to request them.

[ascender]

I've had a couple done for contracting roles recently and they've come back within 48 hours. Will all depend on who's doing them, how detailed they are and how urgent it all is I guess.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Mine took about a month - it was like extracting teeth. They dug out the fact that my start date for a job seven years previous didn't quite tie up with what was on my CV. It was a whole two weeks out. Whoopee freakin do.

I found the whole process very intrusive. They looked at things like the number of sick days I had off in my last permie role which was five years previous - I thought it was completely over the top. I genuinely expected them to start questioning me about the time I stole an extra exercise book from the store cupboard at junior school.

Other people seem to sail through their checks in under two weeks. Maybe its because I'm dishonest.

Very surprised they are able to get this kind of data (based on a variety of sickness recording systems and HR wonks I have worked with)- as to intrusive (and I agree) presumably you must have signed some kind of DPA waiver to allow it?

[nomadd]

They dug out the fact that my start date for a job seven years previous didn't quite tie up with what was on my CV. It was a whole two weeks out. Whoopee freakin do.

I can beat that!

For my current role, the 5 year check failed because... I put down a date that was wrong for when I started using my accountant. I said June 1989, my accountant told them it was October 1989.

I asked why they were concerned about a date 21 years ago (!) for a 5 year check. At that point they dropped it.

Just goes to show what a money-spinning scam most of these "checks" actually are.

[ascender]

Another thing I've had recently is that agencies (or their clients, mainly banks) want me to account for any gap in employment over four weeks long and provide proof. When did all this, along with credit checks become the normal for contractors to have to go through?

I can completely understand these things if you're planning to hire someone for a permanent role, but not for a contract resource.

[craig1]

A friend forwarded me an email over the weekend of a role in a retail bank where the agency required a full credit check plus Enhanced CRB check. She replied to them that this was an abuse of the CRB system because it was a back-office techie role with no access to children or vulnerable adults. They replied that (direct quote) "this is to provide our client with confidence that you've never been involved in criminal activities in your entire life as the Standard and Basic CRB checks do not go back far enough".

I did suggest to her that some of the people who inhabit networking teams in the IT department should be considered "vulnerable adults" as they're incapable of socialising normally and have few, if any, friends outside of the networking team.

[lightng]

I asked why they were concerned about a date 21 years ago (!) for a 5 year check. At that point they dropped it.

Exactly. It's supposed to be a five year check - that was my argument too. 21 years makes you the winner by far

[lightng]

Very surprised they are able to get this kind of data (based on a variety of sickness recording systems and HR wonks I have worked with)- as to intrusive (and I agree) presumably you must have signed some kind of DPA waiver to allow it?

I don't know if what I signed allowed this tbh and at the time I didn't check. I just remember thinking cheeky b******s! It gives people in HR a job, I guess.