job application current employer

When you apply for a job they ask you to fill out your current employer's info. Do they only contact your current employer after they decide to hire you?
Most employers will contact your current job, mine did. They just asked my manager if he had any comments about me, he said nothing but great things. From what I understand though your current job can either say nice things or they can't comment at all.

I agree that most employers will contact your current job before hiring you. Are you asking because your current employer does not know you are looking for another job? Good luck!

If I am leaving a job that I have for 6 months but I have been a good employee do I say do not contact my employer or is it OK?

Quote from souraprilif i am leaving a job that i have for 6 months but i have been a good employee do i say do not contact my employer or is it ok?

Be aware that answering "no" to the contact question does not necessarily mean the prospective employers will not contact them. People have reported that contact was made despite their requests.

so whether I put down yes or no to contact my current employer, there is a chance they will contact. So What's the best way to apply to a new job while maintaining a good relationship with your boss and not causing any drama?

Either hope that nothing gets back to your current employer or be prepared to let them know. After all, if you accept a new job, you will have to inform them anyway. I would just go ahead, apply, check "no", and let the chips fall where they may.

I started looking for a new job 6 months into my first nursing job. When I filled out applications, I checked "no", do not contact my current employer, and, instead of providing my supervisor's name and phone number, either left those spaces blank or wrote "do not contact" in those spaces as well (harder to do with online applications, since sometimes those fields are required). If possible, I would also write a note stating that I did not want my current employer contacted until I had had a chance to inform them that I was looking for another job, and that I would do so if we got to a point in the interview process where they were interested enough in me to want to call my supervisor. There's no way for me to know if there were any potential employers who decided not to call me because of that way of completing applications, but I can tell you that the ones that did contact me seemed very understanding. No one called my employer without my permission. When I finally did have a potential employer who was interested enough in me to want to speak to my current supervisor, I did go ahead and break the news to her (by then I had been working for her for 16 months). She agreed to serve as a reference and I guess she must have told them good things about me, because I got the new job.Good luck!

That's good to know, but by the time you got your new job you already had worked at your old job for more than a year. I am just worried that my time at my current position isn't long enough and potential employer might wondering how come I can't keep a job for more than 6 months.

Quote from souraprilThat's good to know, but by the time you got your new job you already had worked at your old job for more than a year. I am just worried that my time at my current position isn't long enough and potential employer might wondering how come I can't keep a job for more than 6 months.

Quote from souraprilThat's good to know, but by the time you got your new job you already had worked at your old job for more than a year. I am just worried that my time at my current position isn't long enough and potential employer might wondering how come I can't keep a job for more than 6 months.