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Background check

Hello,

I am hoping for any feedback on how long you waited for a large hospital system background and reference check...I submitted my info last Friday afternoon...

Background/reference check turn around time 5 members have participated

  1. 1. Background/reference check turn around time

    • 2 days
      0%
      0
    • 3 days
      20%
      1
    • One week (5 business days)
      60%
      3
    • 1.5 weeks
      0%
      0
    • Two weeks
      20%
      1

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Having been a hiring manager, I know that doing reference checks takes FOREVER. You have to get in touch with X number of people (even for the low level at which I was hiring, we had to have 2-3 at least), and people NEVER call you back. Plus, some won't give you as much info as you need, so then you're on to the next reference... It's a pain in the butt. Plus, background checks aren't instant. I would give it MINIMUM two weeks from that Friday, emphasis on the MINIMUM. Most RN jobs I hear it's about a month minimum (I haven't begun that process for an RN job myself, so I can't speak to that).

I'm a LPN and on at least three occasions it has taken 2 weeks-one month to finalize everything. I remember when I first started out more than 18 years ago it didn't take (or didn't seem to) near as long as it does now to be processed. Most jobs were offered on the spot and I started within a couple of days. Seems it takes much longer now for the whole hiring and on-boarding process.

I know at my hospital it can take a month or longer for HR to get back to a person.

Not hospital, but the background check for an LTC job I just started took 3 weeks. I had to submit a fingerprint card for a federal check since I moved from out of state recently.

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