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This is made even worse and continues to carry negative effects when out looking for a new job and having no verification of the previous employment. This puts the applicate at a great disadvantage compared to the competition which likely does not have this problem. The lack of a reference will affect you most seriously getting your next job, but will continue to affect you for many years to come every time you need to find a new job.

Few companies melt down in an organized way or preserve HR records. Almost always, even when the writing is on the wall, it still comes as a complete surprise. Nobody gives any thought to job records. Usually there are changes in executives, staff is reduced, and it just goes downhill from there. Sometimes, there is no formal bankruptcy or close-down procedure. Paperwork is dumped and the physical property is sold off. Blue Planet hopes to change that, but it will be a big job to communicate with companies and preserve their job records. Everyone reading this site can help. However, at this point another approach will be used to recreate employment records for employee references.

We offer commissions and rewards for the job records of defunct companies, and this allows us to provide the exact information the original employer would have. If it is not possible to obtain the actual records, we than reconstruct them according to specific and well planned guidelines.

The standard reference includes name, social security number, date hired, date separated, salary upon hiring, salary upon separation, title and job responsibilities. The enhanced reference includes more information on responsibilities, major tasks accomplished and goals reached, performance reports, and much more verbiage covering other questions a potential employer might ask.

Even if you do not have employee records but were in a position to have knowledge of employee's in the company, such as being an owner, officer, department head, supervisor, foreman or a similar position, you can still help and earn a commission. Please complete the form for employment knowledge linked at the bottom of the page. We will contact you when we have a reference request for that business. There are many defunct companies where the employment records were not preserved. In this case, we have a process to reconstruct these records though research and contact information we collect. We are most interested in businesses that have failed recently, although we will accept records for companies that have failed within the last five years provided they are large enough. We do not have an arbitrary minimum size, each situation is considered on various merits. The sooner after the business fails, the more useful the records are.

If we do not have any demand for human resource references for your company, we will still accept them and store them until such time as there is interest, provided they are in a database format. You will be notified when there are requests and you will receive a commission based upon our rate for old records.

If the records are in paper form, we can not accept them until such time as there is a demand for one or more of them. We urge you to preserve and keep those records safe until such time as they are needed or our suggested time period has expired.

Commissions for the records of defunct companies are based on how long the company has been out of business and the number of former employees it had. Former employees include all the employees that worked for the company at any time within the last five years, not just those separated when the company went under. Commission rates range from 5 percent to 15 percent.

Please email us or use our online form linked below to provide the relevant information.

For more information, please call our Customer Service number at 305-849-5020 or our Toll Free number at 1-800-518-1206. Email us at info@employee-references.com.

Thank you for your interest.