Background Check - job title discrepancy

Hi guys,

I accepted an offer from a f500 banking company and now my background check is processing.
The company requires me list all employments and projects experience in 7 years.

My problem is:

During employment verification, a discrepancy raised on one of my unpaid project experience. When pursing my master degree, I worked on some research projects related with big data and informatics in a professor's research group. Generally it was a research assistant but I listed it as data analyst in resume because it's the best description of what I did. But from my advisor, he verified this experience as a graduate student.

Will this lead to my offer being rescinded?

Thanks so much!!!

 

Do nothing. If they have any problems, they'll contact you and you can clarify. It's a minor point.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

It is a school job and a normal sounding position. You run into trouble when you over inflate relevant positions. If you said you were #1 summer analyst at Goldman and you worked on 3 live deals and it turns out your were a mail boy you will be in trouble. You stated that you worked for the school, it was a summer job and you were an XYZ. The school just called you a temp which in fact you were because all summer jobs are "temp".

Relax.

 
AnthonyD1982:
It is a school job and a normal sounding position. You run into trouble when you over inflate relevant positions. If you said you were #1 summer analyst at Goldman and you worked on 3 live deals and it turns out your were a mail boy you will be in trouble. You stated that you worked for the school, it was a summer job and you were an XYZ. The school just called you a temp which in fact you were because all summer jobs are "temp".

Relax.

I think I wasn't clear in my original post (which I edited)

Basically, my title was summer analyst at my BB technology internship last summer according to my contract. That's what I wrote on my resume. My BB decided to report my title as "Specialist"

and

my internal title for my school's workstudy job was "Operations Consultant I", which is what I wrote on my resume. My school reported me as a "Temporary Employee".

Sorry for the confusion.

 

How does this work with all the unpaid internships people have? If they never reported you to any agency and you are not in the system do they just call them up?

Pursuit of happiness...
 

I'm pretty sure this kind of thing happens alot.

Basically it will only screw you over if it is obvious that you lied on purpose. And that obviously isn't the case (anyone can see that). You will be fine! I 100% guarantee it! relax. Remember this is an HR department- they've done this before and know all the tricks. They can easily tell the cheaters from the ppl who are trying to be honest.

p.s.- I did the same thing with a university job. it has an internal title which I listed when in fact the real title was something more general like "student associate" ..happens all the time. no biggie. And they can confirm the internal title if they desire.

 

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