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Petty offense on job application?
Do petty offenses need to be reported on job applications? i.e. public urination or intoxication?
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
No do not tell them that those are like the parking tickets of crime. Those aren't reported the same way I used to work in the court just leave it out. Plus it can cost up to $200.00 bucks to background check someone not every company is going to want to spend that kind of money for every applicant. Unless its a corporate job. But to the point petty offenses don't show up.
- SlimsmomLv 61 decade ago
Most places are only concerned with felony offenses. I worked in retail, and if someone answered yes on an automated application to having been convicted of a felony, the application process was stopped there.
- Anonymous5 years ago
there is not any could convey it up in case you're actually not asked in simple terms in simple terms remember to are straightforward. If the applying, or the interviewer, asks a pair of criminal historic past divulge regardless of offenses you ought to have. many times misdemeanor offenses should not be a project except they're directely with regard to the sphere for which you're using. (Ex. financial corporation tellers probable won't get employed with a theft conviction).
- loryntooLv 71 decade ago
If you look at the application, they are usually asking for FELONY convictions. Misdemeanors do not need to be reported in that case. If they ask for any guilty verdicts, you need to report both felonies and misdemeanors.
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- ELv 51 decade ago
What do they ask for? If they ask for crimes, I dont think you need to include that information. If they ask for all of your background including simple misdemeanors than you should put it. From my experience most applications ask if you have been convicted and found guilty of any crimes in the past X years. So
I would just put NO.