interior designer 1, was working with a company for 4.5 years. Always had very good reviews but never got promoted. My last project’s senior designer started providing very bad reviews about me and my performance which led to my termination yesterday. I have given an interview in another firm today and they asked me to fill a background check. Under that they had a question about “Contacting previous employer” with an option YES, NO or CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED. which one do I select?

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I think you are justified in saying no on contacting that past one. And let them call previous other ones if an option.

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I do have 3 references which they can contact who are working in the same company. I just don’t want them to contact my HR or management. Do they usually do that or just contact the references?

So generally an employer isn’t required to do anything mire than confirm dates of employment, and if they talk to HR, who knows that, that is all they’re going to get. If they manage to get a supervisor directly, sometimes that supervisor will say more.

Also, an employer generally doesn’t want to say something negative that might be grounds to get sued.

I worked in HR for nearly 5 years. I would say let them contact your previous employer. Make sure they have HR’s contact info ;)

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