If you have just applied for a new job and your initial interview went really well and you have been asked to give your consent for the company to look into your criminal background history your heart might have skipped a beat. When you have made mistakes in your past you want to forget them as quickly as possible, but when people look into your past it seems that your mistakes continue to come back to haunt you. Instead of avoiding dealing with your criminal background history, just be honest about it.

When you are asked to give your consent for a background search, just be honest about what is going on. Tell the employer that you would gladly give your consent, but that you want to speak with them about your history first. Tell them in as much detail as you are comfortable about the mistakes that you made in your past. Let them know that you have worked on yourself and you have tried to make amends for your mistakes and that you have left that lifestyle and those mistakes in the past.

At this point, tell the employer that you are still very interested in working for them. Ask them if they still want to continue the pre-employment process. If they do, give them permission to do a background check. Make sure that you have told them everything that you will find. When you do this, you may find that the employer is willing to give you a chance because you came to them before hand in a very honest and straight forward manner. By doing this, you are showing that you are mature and you are above the mistakes that you have made in the past. If you simply allow the employer to waste their time and money on the background check to find out the information on their own, your potential will be quickly dismissed. It can be difficult to own up to your mistakes, but this can help you get a job in the long run, and that is what is important.