I have a fulltime offer from an MBB office. 1) Will they background check me? 2) Is it just a criminal records screen, or do they also call former employers?
I have not worked entirely fulltime at the last job listed on my resume - there have been months of "downtime" - will this come out in the wash, and if so, will I be screwed?
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as a followup: some of you might ask, how did some underemployed layabout make her/his through several rounds, in-person and over the phone, to get an offer from MBB?
Well, I have an otherwise rockin' resume and interview just fabulously. The question now is, does MBB do Google-style employment verification? Because if so, I may be about to go nowhere fast.
I mean, point blank: did you lie on your resume?
Tricky. I mean, if you were employed from abc - xyz list that on your resume. You can't be expected to have your resume show "employer - title - worked a lot then had downtime but now working a bit more again." As long as you didn't lie about anything and they didn't ask you about your peculiar situation I think you should be fine.
If it comes up, just explain. How could you possibly list the downtime on your resume?
Someone will likely call the employer and ask "Did this person work at your firm from date x to date y?"
How will they answer that question?
I worked at a place from February - May, left in May for the summer to intern elsewhere, and then came back from September through next May and in my resume, I listed "February 20xx - May 20xx" and nothing happened to me.
I did not lie on my resume - I remained employed at the company as long as I said I was (and their tax records bear that out). There was simply time that was not full employment, and I did not clarify that, for obvious reasons. My fear is that HR personnel would contact my manager who would furnish them with that possibly unsavory detail - MBB seems rather more interested in employees who would never deign to not work.
I highly doubt they will go into detail about when you worked FT vs PT vs no time.
Your manager will not be the person verifying employment, I can assure you that. If you put someone at the company as a personal reference, that might change this, particularly if you told the manager that you did work there full time.
You're fine...the only thing they are allowed to ask is "did _____ work here as a (position) from _____ until _____?".
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