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Background check date discrepancy at McKinsey

After signing the offer with McKinsey and During the certn background check I inputted 1 month while the certificate of my internship said 2 months because they calculated the whole period full time and part time while I registered the full time only and the ceo got the email and confirmed that my period was that of which I registered (one month), so is this serious or what. I already submitted the certificate in the collection of data phase. 

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Tommaso
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16 min ago
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Hey,

Let me try to unpack, because I am not 100% sure I understand your message. If I understand correctly, you wrote on your resume that the internship lasted 1 month, while in reality it was 2 months? If that's the case, I see no issue. You can always say you were being conservative and did not include the part-time portion of that internship

Problems arise when you pretend you worked more than you did in reality (and typically when the discrepancy is larger), not the opposite :)

Best,

Tom