If your current employer has made a diligent effort to verify your previous employment, it's unlikely you'll be fired because the company's recruiter couldn't verify your work history. There might be a reasonable explanation for this. If you believe the situation could jeopardize your new job, offer to help locate your work records or other documentation.
Hiring Process Basics
The hiring process usually includes a preliminary phone interview to discuss your experience and qualifications. If you meet the job requisites, you will be invited in for a face-to-face interview. Should the company make a conditional job offer based on your qualifications, it will likely conduct a background check before you are cleared to start your new job. According to SHRM, an employment verification process is often an important part of this background check.
Hiring and Due Diligence
During the interview process, questions about your work experience are aimed establishing if your background has adequately prepared you for the job. The background checks is equally important. Many employers won't allow you to start working until the company receives the results. If you've begun working for the company, it suggests it has completed its due diligence in the pre-employment stage.
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Logic and Employment Verification
It is not unheard of for an employer to dismiss someone upon learning, post-hire, that he provided false or misleading information on his application or resume. If the information is accurate, you shouldn't be penalized for the company's inability to locate your work history. However, simple logic suggests that if your work history was part of the background check, the results of the company's employment verification were satisfactory.
Other Ways to Verify Employment
If you're in danger of being terminated because your employer can't verify a previous job, ask what steps were used. Perhaps your old company relocated, or the name was changed after a merger or acquisition. Recall any discussions at your previous workplace about pending organizational changes , mergers or plans to close. Help the recruiter explore additional sources for verifying your previous employment. Truework reports that former supervisors or colleagues can provide unofficial employment verification, even if they no longer work for your previous employer.
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Employment Verification Documentation
Provide proof of your work history with old business cards or documents from your previous job including pay stubs or benefits statements. If you published an article as part of your work, for example, give the recruiter a copy. Old performance appraisals are especially helpful because they provide insight into the quality of your work. As a last resort, offer to have the IRS send copies of your tax return transcripts directly to your new employer, including W-2's identifying the previous employers' tax identification numbers. Your efforts to offer tangible evidence may be enough to convince them you provided a truthful job history.
