Background Check post-Ch. 7 - Healthcare position

[IamOld]

Wow Chicagoannie, when it rains it pours!!!! Best wishes to you and fingers crossed for the jobs you mentioned!!!!

[sunshinepa]

Keeping my fingers crossed for one of those jobs. The drug testing sounds like a positive thing along with the tour!

Hopefully you have some time with the current lease so you can get on your feet before you have to find another place.

Keep us posted, thoughts and prayers are with ya!!!!

[chicagoannie]

Thanks to all who followed this post and encouraged me. Remember, I filed last Nov with $.14 in the bank, no job, 4 kids and no unemployment benefits! I finally landed a job - I start next Tues. This employer said the background check and references (along with my skills!) were what mattered to them (and in IL, employers are not supposed to use a BK filing in hiring decisions.) My new job is less than I made before but I am so grateful to know that I'll have a paycheck soon!

[Drazil65]

Congrats! Awesome and so happy for you! It was just a matter of time (even though it seemed like forever at times). Hopefully you can celebrate with a treat. Good Luck with the new job.

[IamOld]

Whahoooo!!!!!!!! Congrats and est wkshes fo new job!

[oregonpilot]

OHHHH annie....I am soooooo happy for you. YEAH, AWESOME, SO GLAD!!!!!

[ValleYum]

I am so happy for you, Annie!! Yay!

[APL]

Annie, I was curious - did you get the nursing job or the financial industry job?

[debee]

Glad you found a job, Annie!

[free2breathe]

Congrats on the job

[tobee43]

Thanks to all who followed this post and encouraged me. Remember, I filed last Nov with $.14 in the bank, no job, 4 kids and no unemployment benefits! I finally landed a job - I start next Tues. This employer said the background check and references (along with my skills!) were what mattered to them (and in IL, employers are not supposed to use a BK filing in hiring decisions.) My new job is less than I made before but I am so grateful to know that I'll have a paycheck soon!

sure do!! that is so wonderful annie. i'm so happy for you, it's so well deserved!!!

you have to make certain and check in after next tues. to let us know how it went

[chicagoannie]

Annie, I was curious - did you get the nursing job or the financial industry job?

APL - I accepted a position in health care - professional sales, but not nursing (I wish I'd had that degree!) before I heard back from Edward Jones. But when I advised the E-J HR person I'd been dealing with at their corporate office (I had to fax over an explanation of my BK and discharge papers, and a court paper showing a bounced check case had been paid and discharged from 2004 to her) about my accepting a different position, she said for me to contact her if I ever decided to try for another E-J job again - they are in just about every town. So I think she was saying that I would have been ok to hire (they had run my background check) and that I met their criteria for employment, which was very very strict, in my opinion.

[moe]

So happy to hear your good news!

By the way, isn't there a law that makes it illegal to discriminate against someone in employment for declaring bankruptcy?