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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse was fired from his previous job in April. Shortly after the firing he was recruited via Linkedin for a similar (but slightly better) job and after weeks of interviews he received an offer. This is great as we had assumed it would take him longer to find something, but now it's time for a background check and he is convinced that they're going to rescind the offer once the new employer/background check people call the old employer and find out he was fired. Throughout the interview and negotiation process he has been acting like he still works at his old employer. It started as a "well I don't want to tell them I was fired, I probably won't even get an interview" and it snowballed from there. It's bad that he did that, no question. 
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My question is for DCUM - do you think they'll rescind the offer when the employment verification component of the background check turns up that his employment with the previous company ended in April? He received severance through the end of May. [/b]

He was fired, to put it simply, because he told the truth about some less than stellar data/results and when told he shouldn't do that he refused to lie as directed. He has tons of old colleagues who would vouch for him generally and about the firing situation specifically. I don't know if the new employer will 1) care about the employment dates discrepancy, 2) care but give him a call/chance to explain, or 3) just rescind upon seeing the flag on the background check.

Thoughts? [/quote]

I've been a part of hiring/firing conversations where things were uncovered during a background check. The short of it is that they might consider keeping you if you are valuable enough (and remember this too: hiring takes a lot of time and resources, it is an investment). In which case they will ask about it. Or they might just rescind the offer. Which one happens depends on, like I said, how valuable the new hire is and how hard it is or isn't to get someone else, and whether or not the folks doing the hiring have patience for this kind of deception. [/quote]

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