I'm sure everyone who bothers to learn more through WSO knows better, but I thought I would throw this out anyways.
So back in college when I was an underclassman, I didn't think much about future or career, so I just grabbed whatever internship I could find, and for me that was a local buy-side investment management firm. Well, I didn't care too much for it and figured I'd just get a few bucks for the summer and be done with it. Not surprisingly, I was let go early due to my dicking around and being late/leaving early and all that shit. I was like, whatever more summer break for me.
Now it's coming back to haunt me, because on my employment application I have to list previous work/job history and when my potential employer contacts that firm where I interned at, I'll be screwed.
So let this be another lesson to you all. However insignificant your current work/internship may seem to you right now, do your best and don't jerk around like i did. At least develop a good relationship with your firm so they can give you a good reference later on.
Sound advice, sucks you had to learn your lesson the hard way.
same as above poster. you will get through this, dont they only check your those after you got the job and its contingent on you passing your background check?
That may be so, but at the end of the day, it will still screw me over. I am attending the final interview next week and the HR rep told me that I will be filling out employment application and that I should prepare employer reference and contact information.
im not sure id say a local buy side shop is necessarily insignificant -- def more significant than the financial advisory internship most of us have done at one time or the other
i was too dumb to know back then...
I'm pretty sure all they do is call the employer to verify that you worked for the company for the stated dates. It's against the law for them to say anything negative about you..huge liability and they can be sued for this I think..
haha let's hope this is true!
The ironic thing is that it sucks you got paid.
If it were unpaid as most internships are, you could have had a valid excuse to altogether not list it.
Sorry to hear it might come back to bite you.
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