In looking for a job the past nine months I have applied to well over 100 financial institutions, and just about every one said I would have to agree to a background check in ordered to be considered for a job with them...
Only 9 months? For me was 17. The only reason I got the (Temp) job I've been at for the last year was that I'd already had the BI in '06, one of many over the previous 40+ years, and it hadn't yet expired. The first being the one I had to pass to be admitted to the AF ROTC program.