Oh, Jose, my dear I can tell you are new to this whole job thing. (Or relatively new). Recruiment agencies, temp agencies, placement agencies actually getting back to a person and/or being at all truthful in their statements....Oh, that makes me laugh so hard.

Let me clue you in on a little tidbit, here. And, mind you, this is based on extremely bad personal experience in which I was the victim. Agencies are just this side of fraudulent. Be sure to never, ever, ever, ever give money to one. You will be wasting it. You are wasting your time sitting home and thinking that they are working for you in procuring you an opportunity.

For every one person who says that these agencies are "wonderful and oh so helpful", you can instantly find 10 who say, "Oh, h3ll no they aren't".

You need to take matters into your own hands and look in the Sunday papers. Check out different on-line job websites. Pick out companies in your area, or in the area you wish to travel, and target them by applying within their on-line website or contacting them either by phone, email or mail.

Okay, now for what you can do now to help yourself figure out your background info. First, contact whatever placement agency claimed that they were going to have your background checked. Ask if they have done it. Ask what the results were. I actually will be very surprised if they speak to you, remember you and/or have actually done a check.

If for no other reason than your piece of mind, go ahead and do your own check. It is your future and your right to know what is going on. Actually, if you don't want to spend the money, you can go to your State's website and find your court's website. Once you are arrested, unless you are a juvenile, that is public record and you can at least find out if somebody with your name and birthdate is in the system. Here is the catch on publicly accessed records, they will show that you were arrested and possibly if you were convicted, they may or may not (depending on the court staff and how prudent they are in updating the records) show if you finished any ordered treatment program or if the case was dismissed.

For credit checks, you can always go on experian.com or one of the other two popular credit score sites and pay for your credit report. Or, you could apply for some type of store credit card and, if turned down, you do have the rights to a free report detailing why you were rejected for the credit. You can only ask for this free report once a year and, as far as I am aware, only after you have been turned down for credit.