Hello there,

There should be no issue with this experience as what matters is the applicable learnings you received.

Reaching out to the person you communicated with during the internship would be advisable to give them a heads up in case the firm require someone to talk to in order to validate the experience.

In parallel, provide the details of your main contact point on this experience to the firm.
There should be no further complications on this process based on standard practice.

Hope it helps.

Kind regards,
Nathan

You're probably fine. What I'd do is:

1) reach out to your university and see who the best person is to have as your point of contact for the project (probably your professor for that course, but it could be some company engagement office)

2) if the firm who gave you the offer asked for specific contacts for each of your experiences, then just email HR at the firm and just clarify that's what this work experience is, and say that they can email the person from 1) for more info. They'll get that it was a school project, as loads of people have that kind of stuff on their resume.

Background checks are more to confirm you haven't committed fraud or something in the past (ie that you don't have a criminal record and are a real person), rather than confirming every bit of your resume.

(editiert)

Hi,

First of all, the objective of the background check is not to verify your resume, but identify fraud, or if you hold any equity

Secondly, even if they have issues - they will reach out to you with questions and you'll explain. Don't worry about that

Best

No worries about that, they usually trust the candidates and even if they want to check on this, you can provide them all the information needed.

Best,
Luca

They usually don't check previous employment for entry level roles, just the academic record.

In any case, you seem to have a good explanation. The most important this is that it was real, and providing the contact of the person you worked for should suffice.

Hi, do not worry about it. For any issues, they will contact you in order to give them proof of the experience.

Best,
ANtonello

Hi Anonymous,

congratulations on your offer! I don’t see any issue if the experience is real, I would just bother to find the email of your reference for the project in case the HR department requires clarification on the experience.

Best,

Francesco

Hi,

No need to worry at all. In the off-chance they find something they don't like, they won't just "fail" you. You'll have an opportunity to provide corroborating evidence.

Hi there!
I agree that you will not have any problems with it. They always can contact the HR manager and he can prove it. Moreover, if you have your experience and knowledge it will be very noticeable.
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