If a company goes out of business, can the new employer verify you worked there?

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Let’s say you’re looking for a job, and you’re tweaking your resume. Could you put an impressive position at a major company that recently went out of business? How would they be able to verify if you actually worked there?

 

[bnew]

they likely wouldn't.

 

[tuckgod]

Nope

 

[null]

Let’s say you’re looking for a job, and you’re tweaking your resume. Could you put an impressive position at a major company that recently went out of business? How would they be able to verify if you actually worked there?

I used to work at Lehman Brothers too breh

 

[Unknown Poster]

How could they? It's out of business.

 

[humminbird]

you saw that joke saying someone is putting general manager for toys r'us?

 

[OfTheCross]

Let’s say you’re looking for a job, and you’re tweaking your resume. Could you put an impressive position at a major company that recently went out of business? How would they be able to verify if you actually worked there?

No. They asked me to provide W2s or Tax Returns to prove I worked where I said I did, though.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

They will likely ask you to provide proof. Either check stubs or some shyt like that. That’s where Adobe Acrobat Pro come in. Receive the game and do what you do with it, or reject the game.

 

[brandy]

Yes. Your co-workers/references, pay stubs, etc should be your proof of employment.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

you saw that joke saying someone is putting general manager for toys r'us?

 

[Mindfield333]

Probably your w2s if they really wanted to. I know somebody on here gotta works in HR in some capacity.

 

[Mindfield333]

Google some of the companies that went out of business in your city and get to work on that resume

 

[Tess Lies]

Let’s say you’re looking for a job, and you’re tweaking your resume. Could you put an impressive position at a major company that recently went out of business? How would they be able to verify if you actually worked there?

Depends on how "major" the company was. Employee information has to be kept on the books somewhere for a certain period of time. I've worked for a company that did background checks for companies and we used 3rd party employee verification databases that companies uploaded their employee's information to.

To put your mind at ease, if you did put General Manager at Toys R Us from 1999 to 2003 and we weren't able to verify it because we couldn't make contact with someone or obtain the info, but we ran your name through the database and saw employment information from Captain D's from that same date range, we couldn't divulge that info to potential employers if you didn't list them.

 

[Spence]

Probably your w2s if they really wanted to. I know somebody on here gotta works in HR in some capacity.

Correct but if you really wanted to a w2 can be forged and we dont really dig too too deep into it since we have a million hires to make and we are on deadlines. If hiring managers are desperate and really like a candidate we usually look the other way on a lot of things.

 

[Joe Budden]

Since Covid destroyed so many business this is the best time to lie on your resume.

“Why did you leave such and such incorporated, mr. Fisher”


“Covid hit and there were a lot of staff cuts in my department “