Urgent help required about new job (background check!)

theronstar

Undervalued wrote: »

So you generally condone fraud then?

I am just responding to how the real world works.

People get job roles due to nods and winks.
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I do not condone fraud. I am just saying that where this sort of thing is untenable is when someone acquires a position that they have no degree of competency in.

pioneer22

With Experian background checking YOU input the information and then Experian automatically contacts the person via email.

Its down to the company to check the person on the receiving end is genuine and can provide a reference.

I.E you havent sent the reference request to a receptionist etc

It will come up if you haven't worked there but the other person will probably be committing gross misconduct and if the role involves any kind of security clearance you could both be in trouble.

P_McLove

Update:

Got the job, on a very good salary and great benefits package working in Bank.

The state of some of the replies in here "get a low paid, low skilled job instead". I obviously was not unemployed as I had said (testing the waters with all these tw*t sharks in it) but even that just goes to show that the majority of you have zero compassion and empathy towards people less fortunate either.

This is also exactly why some of you losers will remain losers. If you have an opportunity, you seize it hence I guarantee I now have a better income and quality of life than all of you along with my other income(s) and wife's salary thrown in.

Don't hate the player, hate the game you utter bunch of plebs.

swingaloo

Probably more likely you were caught out and want to prove a point by claiming otherwise. Mind you, liars and banking sort of go together.

maisie_cat

marliepanda wrote: »

You'll get caught out. Liars always do.

Unfortunately, that isn't true, however much I wish i was, it tends to be true in films but not real life.
I've known a reasonably large number of people who've lied about something employment & professional related, tax related or finance related and none ever got caught.

GarthThomas

P_McLove wrote: »

Update:

Got the job, on a very good salary and great benefits package working in Bank.

The state of some of the replies in here "get a low paid, low skilled job instead". I obviously was not unemployed as I had said (testing the waters with all these tw*t sharks in it) but even that just goes to show that the majority of you have zero compassion and empathy towards people less fortunate either.

This is also exactly why some of you losers will remain losers. If you have an opportunity, you seize it hence I guarantee I now have a better income and quality of life than all of you along with my other income(s) and wife's salary thrown in.

Don't hate the player, hate the game you utter bunch of plebs.

As per my previous posts, I run a trading desk in an investment bank. I didn't have to lie at any point to get this, so don't really understand in what way I'm a loser for agreeing with everyone else that what you did was wrong.

Fortunately in my business we do proper background checks, we even investigate if people were really unmployed when they claimed that they were, so we don't end up with people like you working there.

The fact that you come back on to gloat is telling. So I can have a laugh at your middling job, why not share with us what you do?

P_McLove

LMAO you keep telling yourself that...I hadn't logged in since April, why after all this time if I didn't get the job come back on here and update my one and only thread on this forum with positive news? I obviously didn't give a crap in the first place but now that my mind is completely at ease and I'm EXTREMELY happy with my life right now, I just had to share to tools like yourself. Surely I would've left no comment thus creating a "oooh wonder what happened? Did he get it? Didn't he?".

Bunch of scaremongers.

Genuinely feel sorry for anyone who's been in a crap position and took an opportunity. That reply from the other user saying how they knew someone who got a job in Sports Direct is exactly what I'm talking about...respect to her.

Pleb.

TELLIT01

I think I've just heard the first cuckoo of Spring!

GarthThomas

You're on over six figures, so that'd be seven figures then?

Compliance heads don't get that much, they get low six figures, so you're clearly full of !!!! there.

And no, if you're head of compliance I'm afraid that you are not on more money than me, sorry. I'm fortunate, as I mention above, to run a trading desk. If you were in compliance in a financial firm you'd likely know what that means in terms of package, so I don't need to spell it out.

We also don't employ heads of compliance who are in their twenties in banking. Mine is in his fifties, and came in after a couple of decades in his law firm.

You've messed up a bit here, I'm afraid, and started spouting obvious lies in a thread which unfortunately has an actual relatively senior investment banker in it.

I do wonder why.

Oh, one more thing, anyone being interviewed for compliance would know every last in and out of the referencing system, they'd not need to ask for help in a state of panic on a site like this.

GarthThomas

maisie_cat wrote: »

Unfortunately, that isn't true, however much I wish i was, it tends to be true in films but not real life.
I've known a reasonably large number of people who've lied about something employment & professional related, tax related or finance related and none ever got caught.

P_McLove wrote: »

Hi all,

Wondering if anyone can help me.

I have been unemployed for one year but in that year I have lied on my CV about a steady job at a real company (which is small) and have a reliable contact there that can vouch for my "employment" there regarding the job I supposedly do (they have legit company email etc).

I have finally got the job I have been after but subject to an Experian background check.

Ironically during my interview, the company was more interested in my previous role that I had before this year-long one but I just don't know what to do as I don't know what the Experian check actually entails regarding my previous job history. Do they simply call/email the contact that I give them (whom I know)?

I've worked so hard to get this job and I feel that it will be taken away from me and I'll be back to square one.

Thank you in advance.

Quoted for posterity, as Pinocchio is claiming to be so far from what was being written above. Unemployed for a year, panicking that they'll be back to square one, but now apparently on over a million a year, and driving a better car than a guy who's been trading for a quarter of a century.

For others who don't know, we don't use an Experian check when making senior hires in compliance, we use a proper, professional background checking firm. The last time I moved I was asked to show documentary evidence to prove I had not worked in my sabattical period, the FCA register was of course fully checked, and every previous employer was asked to attest to my "fit and proper" status before I could start.

We rejected a young trader recently who hadn't told us about one caution for shoplifting at age fourteen. As I've mentioned recently, I let a member of staff go for dodging his train fare. The idea that a whiny twenty-something who's been unemployed for a year is going to get into compliance after faking a reference is about as likely as Dark Matter getting a job driving for Ferrari on the strength of his fantasy garage on here.

Anyway, fun though it is pricking a !!!!!'s bubble I've 10k to do on the rowing machine before dinner.

I wonder if I'll run I to our fantasist tonight celebrating his success in Roka.