But I’m slowly losing my mind! Furthermore he assured me that someone would be in contact with me for the next step. On Tuesday of last week HR contacted me for an in person interview which was on that Thursday. I wrote an email last week simply asking when I could expect to hear back from them regarding a hiring decision and STILL NOTHING! The site says the background check will take 3-5 business days. level 1. Employers, in my experience, usually ask for a reference within a few days. Actually I was contacted Monday congratulating me and saying that they wanted to move to the next step and check my references. The company has since lengthened its hiring process, and they realize they risk losing good candidates in the process, but I imagine it’s a risk they’re willing to take. In both instances, I was the #1 pick, so it was simply the paperwork that bogged down the process. How confident are you that those references are glowing, and in particular that they would be glowing for this type of work?Are they doing a background check as well as a reference check? There are generally two approaches to referencing, either the agent collects and checks the references themselves or as is more often the case, the referencing process is handed over to a separate company to process.As well as checking the affordability and checking your credit score (which will leave a record on your credit score) they will contact your employer to confirm your employment details and salary. If you are currently in a probation period, you need to disclose this upfront as it is one of the questions that will be asked of your employer. Your previous landlord will also be contacted to confirm that rent payments have been up to date and the previous property kept in good order.It is important to be transparent about what has happened in the past as part of the checking process will be to validate the information that you have supplied. If you fail to disclose something important and this is subsequently flagged up, it will count against your application and increase the risk of you failing the referencing process.If the landlord operates a manual referencing process they will ask you to supply individually written references from your employer, bank and previous landlord and also want copies of bank statements, all of which can take some time to gather.
I still have not heard from anyone.
Fortunately, they warned me that the process would take a while, and it wound up taking 3.5 full weeks, or 17 business days. If it were me, I would conduct *all* elements of the pre-employment screen before contacting the current supervisor as a courtesy to the applicant. That’s about how I usually feel when my work gets in the way of my other work!I’d give you the same advice as the original question-asker here. What can I do at this stage?I am starting to get employer/ prospective employee time…but a status update would have been tremendously helpful.If the applicant has lived in another state in the last 7 years, it tends to be closer to the high end.Sure, check back with them.