Had an interview today with a company and around 3 hours later they invite me to do a police check (which I don’t have to pay for). Does this mean I’m likely to be hired? I didn’t receive any other emails indicating I’m hired.
Sorry if this is a newbie question, this is only my 2nd job :)
Very rarely, it cost about $300 to do one.
Uh, no. No it doesn't.
$50 for name and DOB check via NSW Police, $197.20 if you want to add a fingerprint check.
$42 for name and DOB via AFP and $99 to add fingerprint.
$48.90 for name and DOB via VIC Police and $191 for fingerprint.
$0.00 OzBargain members check for you.
we use cvcheck $50 PP
In my industry (finance and insurance), the police check is usually the last step - even after the reference checks. Sometimes the offer even comes through and it's conditional on the police check being satisfactory.
Companies don't like paying for the police check unnecessarily.
nope, means they found you suspicious /s
just kidding I think you just landed a new job. Congrats!
Not necessarily.
In some roles, particularly those that handle some form of cash, a police check is a mandatory step to ensure that the company covers all its bases when doing its checks on a potential employee.
You can still get turned down if your police check comes up with any potential red flags. The key is usually in the terminology used by the recruiter which usually has something like "congrats xxx, we would like to verbally offer you xx role pending police and reference checks". This is so that if anything gets flagged (via ref check or police check) they can reject you without any potential ramifications due to these justifications.
If you have nothing then you have nothing to worry about as it's essentially just another step in the process like "psychological fit tests".
I had to do police / driving records checks (at my own cost) for a government department pre interview - never got the job.
Weird. I work in 2 seperate casual positions for 2 separate government departments and didn’t have to pay for either of the police checks I did. I just filled out the paperwork and they submitted and paid.
You got scammed, always refuse to pay for that.
At my work they ask you to do the medical and police check after they do interviews and reference checks. You've pretty much got the job unless either check comes back with issues.
If your police check is clear…congrats. otherwise…
In Gov it's the final step. So yeah i'd say you pretty much have it.
Unless you're with a recruiter, then it might just be a nice to have for them.
Often yes, sometimes no. I’ve been through lots of gov recruitment processes where they don’t do this for unsuccessful candidates but at least once they’ve done it when I haven’t been successful as part of the ‘process’, even though the process is meant to be the same. On the occasion I’m thinking of I was merit listed, but I’ve also been merit listed and not had this happen.
Now you've just got to hope someone in Admin forgot to add the murder conviction to your permanent record.
It prob. means that the people that interviewed you want to hire you, but there are HR processes and checks that need to be followed.
In my company we are not allowed to tell the candidate that they have been chosen until all these checks are complete and HR have approved.
Once had a situation where one my colleagues told a candidate he had the job and just had to do the medical. Then HR came back and said that due to something that came up in the medical they would not hire him (wouldn't tell us what for privacy reasons). The candidate got really upset as according to him he had been told he had the job, and it all got quite nasty - I think he tried to take some legal action as well.
As a manager - not always.
We will ask for the background checks (police and references) if we have leaned towards specific candidates on a shortlist.
It is a cost to the business so we don't do it without reason and it is usually so we can land the applicant without delay. The checks can take a few days to complete, so starting them early means we can proceed with a candidate quicker than if we delayed on requesting the checks to be done.
All said and done, it is a good sign to your chance of being employed by them.
Likely yes but not always. If you were interviewing with a recruitment company rather than the employer then they may be required to get a background check for a candidate they put forward. If you've lived overseas in the past few years then they may be kicking it off because those checks can take a really long time, depends on the sensitivity of the job, they might need the results before you can start. Internal politics also come into play. I've seen someone basically hired but an internal candidate put their hand up at the last minute and they got the preference, or someone realised it's outside of budget or some other issue came up.
Nothing is ever finalised until you sign an offer. But 9 times out of 10 a background check means you're on pretty solid ground (assuming nothing dodgy comes back in your checks).
Your offer letter won't come until they've verified that you've at least submitted the background check information too, standard practice. So get it in ASAP. References usually need to be collected before making an offer too, so it's worth bugging your referees to get on it if they don't do it quickly.
50% hired. As they might ask the other to do ths same to speed up the process.