How important Job Title match during Background checks at MBB?

Hello!

Congrats on the offer!

Honestly, in my experience, with McK the background check was quite “light” (meaning that this wouldn´t matter, they are looking more for lies such as I went to Harvard, and then you didn´t). 

However, I had that issue with the MIT. The title that I had in my contract and in LinkedIN (+ my email signature, so on) was different than the one internally HR handles. This generated a fuss, that was easy to fix but still a pain and time consuming. I had to have Amazon signing a paper saying that both are the same and we use the same names in the company, but in different contexts

Hope it helps!

Cheers, 

Clara

Hi there,

Congratulations on the offer! Now in terms of your questions:

1) Now the question is how significant are these title changes for the background checks? Are they going to cause any red flags? 

I believe in your particular case an issue may arise only if the job title you used was assigned to a different position in your company and/or if you reported activities you didn’t actually do related to that.

2) Are they actually going to contact my previous employer and double-check all the titles I held there? Or do they just check the dates I was employed and that's it?

They will normally check both titles and dates and sometimes the reason for leaving. In one of the requests I received from a background check company as an employer, they had a note like this: If the title is different from the information you have, can you confirm the claim can be considered as equivalent? So if the title is considered equivalent by your employer there should not be problems even if slightly different.

I agree with Ian that it is better to avoid this in the future – you can still clarify the title by writing the clarification after the official one (eg “Fuel Storage Coordinator - Project Coordinator of XYZ”) to avoid possible issues.

Best,

Francesco

Hi there,

I'll be quite straightforward here:

1. I'd highly recommend not doing this again
2. You should be fine, but we don't know. Nothing you can do at this point but wait.

This is something you really should avoid but, as long as you are not putting yourself at a different funcion or different rank (and the description you have on the bullet points is correct) you should be fine.

We do not really know the outcome - at this point you can only wait and watch. In future if you submit your CVs elsewhere - try to avoid such conversions.

However, it should not really be too much of an issue if the positions are “equivalent” or bear a similar “notion”. In your case I believe it may just prop up some tensions since:

• Fuel-storage coordinator is closer to operations coordinator v/s project coordinator. In core industry jobs “projects” is generally a separate department that handles deployment of capex projects.
• And warehouse supervisor is closer to operations supervisor vs group supervisor. In core industry jobs “group” is generally added as a prefix for more senior positions.

Hence, if someone really wants to have a beef with you, they can call it "misrepresentation".

Hi!

I don't believe it's going to be a major problem if you've described your experience truthfully.

Best,

Anto