Eventually you may want to lateral to another agency, or you may want a promotion, or you may be looking to get hired for the first time. One important document you are likely to have to complete is your background investigation paperwork to include you job history. Background investigators like to know how you made your living so they can track how you get your money and make sure you are not living a criminal lifestyle bringing in money you can't account for. They also want to know why you left your previous employment. They want to know you were not fired for cause, sexual harassment, theft, insubordination, drug abuse, and other negative reasons.
Keep a record of every place you ever worked. I always keep a business card from the places I used to work and I keep a copy of my old job application. If you forget information about places you used to work the IRS or Social Security Administration can provide you with some of that information, but it can take weeks even months to locate. You can also look through your old tax information to get information about previous employers. You are only responsible for the information that was current at the time you worked for the previous company.
If an old employer has since gone out of business, moved, changed their phone number or was bought out by another company, that is not your problem. Put down the information as you know it, if it turns out to be outdated, then it is the responsibility of the background investigator to find it. Often it is just lost, most of the companies I worked for since went out of business or were sold and no longer exist at the locations I used to work at years ago. The important thing is to do the best you can to provide the most accurate information you can come up with; that's what the SGT Says.
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