Background Check - Firm name partly mispelled !!

Hello guys,

I am very worried about a potentially serious issue and would like to see what are your opinions on the fact and what would you recommend me to do.

I have successfully landed a 1-year placement at a BB bank. As you might know, the offer is conditional upon positive background check.

Well, the problem is this:

In the past, I have worked for 2 months in a part-time (unpaid) position for firm XXX YYYY (not a big company) in a foreign country (not a very well known one). However, on my CV, I partly misspelled the name of the company as ZZ YYYY.

Now, I am oscillating between:

1) calling them and confessing my incompetence in writing a company's name and risking raising further suspicions while also feeling like an idiot (well, I must confess that i was in this case, but just don't want to show off)

2) completing the employment history form with the misspelled name in the hope that they might not verify this in particular or that if they do they might not consider it as grave as to question my credibility (given that the name was just partly misspelled - and does not coincidentally represent another company, and with address, dates, references and position being 100% true).

I appreciate your opinions.

Thanks!

P.S.: I mention the company hires a third party for doing the background check.

 

Why don't you figure out the name of the third party who does their background checks and get in touch with them? Either way, you really shouldn't worry about this being a career ending typo...

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Best Response
JustADude:
do you mean like misspelled by accident or "misspelled" to make yourself look better in which case it wouldn't pass as a spelling mistake? By how much you are worrying over this, it sounds like the latter...

Accidentally

As I've said, the misspelled name does not coincidentally lead to another company/firm...it actually leads nowhere.....so I couldn't have had a hidden intention in this case.

The fact is that I am worried on how the HR or the third party would react to hearing such a mistake since these kind of mistakes do not usually happen so I might think that it would be very hard to seem true even though it is. They might easily have the bias to think like you which is why I am also considering leaving it like that since the position/company was not a very important one while also being in a foreign country whose language is not at all widely spoken..

 

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