Seeking Alpha Included on Background Check Form

Hi All,

Sorry to be the person to ask yet another background check question but I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not I need to disclose my freelance work for Seeking alpha? I've been paid by them but don't really have formal employement dates or anything since I am just serving as a contributor. I also don't have a contact point for them to reach.... I currently have seeking alpha listed on my linkedin so I figure that they can see it.

Would appreciate insight from the community. Thanks.

UPDATE: My paranoid self emailed HR and they recommended that I list it with rough dates and write a detailed description in the box for explaination provided. I erred on the side of too much info.

 
Best Response

This.

What's the benefit of leaving it off? You save yourself 1-2 minutes inputting info. What's the downside of leaving it off? You potentially get your offer rescinded, because omission can be interpreted by HR's rigid guidelines as trying to conceal something, and once they raise the issue it'll be too late.

If there are on-record payments made to you from a company, it will show up when they run your SSN and it pulls up all W-2 forms a company has filed under that SSN.

 

You should be good. I had a couple friends who wrote for them in college, and the only ones that ever ran into trouble with HR were the ones that made freshman help them without getting paid lol

 

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