Unfortunately companies nowadays made it compulsory for job seekers to sign pdpa. Without pdpa, u just don't even get the interview.

Personal experience though.

I never sign any pdpa or fill in reference before/during/after interview.

I understand that as a employer, you want to hire a right person, but you can do that checking during employee probation period.

Your current employer/boss still a human, they will be emotional sometime. My ex-boss, treat every staff like his family, but once he know a staff plan to resign, went to interview etc, because of those employee background check phone call, he 360 degree turn and treat that staff like a dog during his serve notice period.

I see. So why company do the checking after you started working but not before tat? Will it be an offer dropped status if they discovered some ugly facts after u signed the offer letter? Anyone with these experiences, please share

That why we have probation period for employee to understand their job, and also employers to understand their staff more. both side can be terminated.

Frankly speaking haven't encountered such practice in more than 15 years of working with various companies ranging from private to mnc to public listed. Never once get terminated during probation period.

Common practice is the they do check thoroughly or not before the offer of employment. Once they decided to employ u, then u will be on board until u called it a day .

I joined current company on 2nd of August. I left my previous company (2 year and 3 months) and joined current company. It's a direct competitor actually.
Hence, my current HR did not do contact my references before that. 2-3 weeks ago, current HR contacted my previous HOD which I put at my references list. Ask me about my attitude, performances, would he hire me back those question etc.

Luckily my previous HOD has a good relationship with me, which right now more like a mentor or A.K.A father to me. He understood my situation why I choose to leave and he still managed to tell all good stuff to my current employer. He just told me that my current HR contacted him when I went to catch-up dinner with him at the last 2 week. Current HR told my ex boss that it was a standard procedure to contact references if the new employee joined from competitor/similiar indusrty.

Will a Termination Show Up on a Background Check? Will it be harder for me to get a job if I receive an official termination letter from my previous company?

Recently I got terminated during my probation period. Does this mean that my next employer can do a background check on me to find out if I've been terminated if I sign the form that allows the company to do a background check on me? Will I have a lower employment chance if they find out that I got terminated then?

There are ten of thousand companies out there, if you no tell,how employer will know? There is no centralised employment data like ccris or ctos

You can choose not to tell. Everything will be fine as long as it's kept within you and previous company. Is it a big company?

How long have you been working in that company?
3 months? 6 months?
If 3 months, just skipped it & your potential employer won’t know about it.

Big company also sometimes they never do background check with other company. True story.

Well, if your next employer calls your previous employer, they'll find out for sure.

After that, awkward questions will follow.

Whether you get the job or not depends on how best you answer those awkward questions.

Current employer can't call up previous employer when you don't give it to them

How does the prospective employer find out about the performance and character of the candidate and then make decision to hire if he is not allowed to call up his current employer?

Place under probation again under new comapny and see the performance. Different company has different level of performance needed to be achieved. Why not right?

Interview? References? All those personality tests conducted by Willis Towers Watson and the like?
Some companies have 4-8 levels of interviews for example.

Background check is important for those sensitive position, or high post, like banking (handle client's million of worth transaction each day, even ordinary bank cashier also handled quite a lot of money each day), or crucial position that can assess/process company confidential info.

Other normal position, there won't be too strict background check one.

Banking is more strict, I guess.
But it’s a different story for other industry.
Even management post also they didn’t do background check with other companies.

apparently, i did not get terminated but my boss forced me to resign. it's a digital marketing agency based in vietnam. when i got the job, no training was given. i was just told to bring in sales. when i make a mistake, they scold me without any reason. when i asked if they could teach, they would get angry and tell me to learn on my own. hence, they forced me to resign. i am currently unemployed and looking for a job. if someone here has a job, please do let me know