On background check

Question

I have a short two months of work experience that I didn't put it on the resume. (I was fired due to unhappiness with the boss; I've been thinking for resigning at that time but didn't do it and at the end I was fired. I am so regret for this. )

Now I got an offer from a top consulting firm, should I tell them the two months' experience on background check? Should I put this experience in background check sheet? How can I explain it well? Will they rescind the offer because I didn't put it on the resume or because I got fired.

I will have a four months gap in my experience if I don't mention this to them.

Answer 1

I would leave it alone personally.

You are not obliged to include all of your experiences on your resume! For example, I don't have my Panera Bread cashier experience ;)

A background check is much more are checking that you are who you say you are! Furthermore, it's to confirm that what you have written is correct. It is not to figure out if you forgot to add 1 specific experience in your life!

You'll be fine!

Answer 2

Hello!

Hope message here: you have nothing to worry about!

The background check is precisley the other way arround: if you put something in your CV that indeed is not true, there is where you are in trouble!

It basically consists on them calling your employers/education and verifying, so there is no way for them to even find this employer -and even if they did, you have no obligation to mention all of your employers in the CV, so you are good-.

Cheers,

Clara

Answer 3

Hi,

I do not recommend doing that. I don't see any pros and I don't see how they can learn about this if you don't report

Moreover, the background check aim is to check that you don't have any equity and you really worked in the companies you've listed. They don't care of what's not listed

Best

Answer 4

Hi there,

Congrats on your offer.

I would not worry about your previous 2-month experience. As mentioned in the other comments, the background check is done to verify that what you wrote in the CV is correct. They won’t check what you didn’t include and it is quite normal not to include in a CV a 2-month experience (regardless of the reason for the termination).

Best,
Francesco

Answer 5

Congratulations to your offer!

Don't worry about this 2 months experience, you can not to include it.

As it has been already said, the purpose of the background check is to verify that you really worked at the companies you have mentioned.

Do you have any further questions?

GB

Answer 6

If you didn't include on your resume a previous experience that you had, that's not a problem.

The problem is if you include a previous experience that you didn't have.

Don't worry about this.