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Criminal record

  • 13-07-2020 12:59AM
    #1
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭


    Does a criminal record impede your ability to get a job regardless of how educated you are? I just listened to a podcast on 98fm of an accountant who can only get jobs at supermarkets because of an assault he carried out.

    Couldn't he just move to another country?


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,579 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    A Google search will likely deny him/her/undefined employment. Hard to defend assault, it's not like money resting in your account for fraud.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    Does a criminal record impede your ability to get a job regardless of how educated you are? I just listened to a podcast on 98fm of an accountant who can only get jobs at supermarkets because of an assault he carried out.

    Couldn't he just move to another country?

    Of course it can but if your very talented in a very select area, it probable won't unless it was connected to your industry.

    And yes, he could move abroad.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,506 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    A Google search will likely deny him/her/undefined employment. Hard to defend assault, it's not like money resting in your account for fraud.

    If you have a very unique name maybe but John Kelly? Peter Smith?


  • #5
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 11,064 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    Niner leprauchan wrote: »
    If you have a very unique name maybe but John Kelly? Peter Smith?

    It does not really matter, if a background check is required, it will be done by a specialist agency who will check these things in detail.

    Swiss banking law require that all employees regardless of rank or purpose must have a completely clean record. When I was involved in recruiting there, I have been given reports from an agency in the UK that included press clippings, court transcripts, police reports both European and North American. They even flagged up one person that changed their name twice - once in the UK and twice in the USA.


  • #6
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    It does not really matter, if a background check is required, it will be done by a specialist agency who will check these things in detail.

    Swiss banking law require that all employees regardless of rank or purpose must have a completely clean record. When I was involved in recruiting there, I have been given reports from an agency in the UK that included press clippings, court transcripts, police reports both European and North American. They even flagged up one person that changed their name twice - once in the UK and twice in the USA.

    Would I be denied a job? I was cautioned for prescription forgery but never charged.


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  • #7
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 11,064 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    Would I be denied a job? I was cautioned for prescription forgery but never charged.

    It depends on the employer and the law relating to the position you are applying for and of course the attitude of the recruiting manager themselves... for a Swiss bank or an agency providing services to a Swiss bank, absolutely. I believe "prescription forgery" would also be a big "no, no" in the Pharma industry as well.


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