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Whether you are looking for a job, or you are responsible for recruiting new employees, you need to be aware that more and more companies are doing complete background checks on people. Perhaps it is because so many more people are applying for jobs in all different fields, they feel that they can have their pick and they want to pick from the best of the best. The days of just putting anything down on your resume are gone. If you put something on your resume, you best be able to back it up, because companies will do a complete check to see if the information you have provided is accurate. It used to be that these types of stringent background checks were used only for medical jobs and government jobs, however, now everyone wants to know what you have been doing and they will check out not only your employment references and your personal references, but many will do a criminal background check as well, to make sure that you are not in any sort of trouble before they hire you.

I know for me this has really changed the information on my resume. It used to be that whatever was on your resume or application was taken at face value, and perhaps they would contact your most recent employment reference but that was it. I went for a job and the person told me that I had to sign all these authorization forms for them to check out everything, and it scared me, so now I have made sure that all my information is correct to the letter. I didn't get that job, and I am convinced that is because of the background checks that company had made. Don't get me wrong, I am not a criminal or anything, and I really do understand why it is important to a company to know who they are hiring, I just don't see why they need to know where you worked 10 years ago and why you left, I think that is a bit over the top. Whatever. Anyway, I am just putting all this down, so that you don't get surprised when you are applying for a job, because they really will check you out and you need to be prepared.