In the process of getting a contract job and hopefully getting hired on to the company I am sub-contracted to I have had to go through four background investigations including one for a Public Trust clearance. The first investigation was to get the job offer from the contractor. The second was for the clearance. The clearance, even as low as it is, required 15+ pages of information to be filled out. You would think by the time I had done that, they would have had enough information and done enough investigating.
Yet when I applied for the full-time position, I had to fill out more paperwork for background investigation three. Then, after accepting the job offer, the company had to do another background investigation. Who is paying for all this BI BS? To cap it off, the fourth investigating agency today asked me to provide a W-2 for the staffing agency I am currently working for…wait for it…at the company that wants to hire me? Apparently they cannot verify that I actually work for for the staffing agency….