Question about personal history statements in the hiring process?

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I'm filling out these extremely detailed personal history statements for the hiring process of a few police departments in my area which are testing, and I have a few questions.

First, before filling this thing out, I felt like a pretty decent, law abiding citizen. Now, I see a 15 page summary of every mistake I've ever made, and I'm feeling like I should be on the FBI's top 10 list. Is this normal, or do they really find enough candidates with spotless backgrounds? By way of explanation, I have no criminal record, but I smoked little pot when I was younger (been about 7 years), and I had some credit problems around the same time (probably not a coincidence!). I thought I was like most people, did some dumb things in my early to mid twenties, then got my act together. Now I'm not so sure.

Second, how much detail are they really expecting? For instance, I'm 33 years old now, and I just don't remember the name of the manager I had when I worked the drive thru at Taco Bueno 18 years ago. How should I fill in this missing information?

I appreciate any advice. Especially from police officers. Thanks in advance.
 
I think most people feel the same way.
I know I did.

I had a guy say to me while looking over polygraph results, "Never done any drugs huh....don't see that too often."


And they expect as much detail as you can get them. If you can call around and find out what that Taco Bueno manager's name was, it might even impress them.
There's certain things I just can't figure out about my past. It isn't a huge deal...but you should put quite a bit of effort into it.

Good luck.
 
If you don't have enough smarts to fill out the summary without help from Yahoo answers do you really think working as a law enforcement officer is the right position for you.
 
I worked as a 911 dispatcher.

To be honest, I believe they are looking for anything you have been ticketed for or been charged with. Not if you told a lie in 2nd grade. Take it easy. :)

Most places anymore are looking for your last 5 work places as far as I know.
 
I worked as a 911 dispatcher.

To be honest, I believe they are looking for anything you have been ticketed for or been charged with. Not if you told a lie in 2nd grade. Take it easy. :)

Most places anymore are looking for your last 5 work places as far as I know.
 
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