Date Discrepancy in Resume - Offer Rescinded?

Question

hi all,

i have over 10 years experience in total. i have just received an offer from MBB firm and the background check has kicked off. I realized now, that I made a mistake in my CV.

in one of the jobs, i put June 2023 - 2025, When i actually worked from June 2023 to Sept 2024. So there is a 3/4 month discrepancy. It was an honest mistake, and I wanted to put 2024 (no month - as when creating resume I geniunely forgot)

I did, however, put 2025 - Present in my next job. Every other date and month in the 10 year career is correct. Will this lead to the offer being withdrawn?

Answer 1

Hi,

Don't worry about this one. Background checks are looking for people who invented a job, inflated a title or hid a gap. A few months on one date, with everything else across ten years correct, is not that. If it gets flagged and verified, they will correct it, and the process moves on.

Also worth checking your LinkedIn matches the corrected dates, since that's often what the verification is compared against.

Franco

Answer 2

Hi,

I would not panic about this. Based on my experience, what actually gets an offer rescinded is deliberate misrepresentation, not one end-date that is off by a few months while everything else across ten years is correct.

The one thing I would do is get ahead of it by sending your recruiter a short note saying you reviewed your CV, spotted that one role should read June 2023 to Sept 2024, and wanted to flag it yourself.

Hope it helps and feel free to DM me if you want to discuss this more in depth.

Best,

Federico