MChris9603

Hi everyone, I recently got a conditional employment offer with a county jail pending my background investigation. From what the county is telling me is that the Sheriff's Department is going to call my past employers and ask for my personnel file to be sent to them. Out of curiosity, has anyone else here experienced this? I can't really see all of my past employers going through the effort of copying and mailing the entire personnel record to the county. This just sounds fishy to me. Anyone have any thoughts?

I can totally empathize with you!!! I was a stay at home mom for years, then went back to school to become an LVN. Everyone was saying nursing is a "recession proof" profession. Yeah, right. I began looking for a job in ernest 5 months ago. It felt like my resumes were just sucked into a big black hole over the internet. I finally got so desperate I started applying for MA jobs, CNA jobs, even medical record technician jobs. NOTHING. I was finally able to land a job just recently as an LVN in an assisted living home. I had to go through 2 group interviews and 2 panel interviews. I think my resume got picked for the interview just out of pure luck. But for the group interviews I think my positive attitude, professionalism (there were sooo many candidates that didn't dress to impress), determination to stand out (I had to use my sense of humor more than once during the interviews) eventually landed me the job. Unfortunately it is 65 miles from where I live. Good luck. Think positive. Something will come your way. You haven't been looking for very long yet.