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Guys, I am very anxious about a possible background check.

I was completely truthful on my application and I have nothing to worry about the checks with my current and past employees. The thing is I had an entrepreneurship experience that has little paper trail. The website, now offline, can be seen through some web services, I have tons of work emails that clearly show my roles and time there and I have witnesses, but we always worked without any official documents (common in my country) and we failed fast - I was totally open about the failure as well. It was a long time ago and probably only 15% of my career time.

How can I prepare for this specific part of my verification? Are the emails and witnesses enough?


I think you are wise to be thinking about this as this can hurt entrepreneurs. Hopefully you made note of this in your application- and if not, then certainly do save the links to websites and also have the work emails and references to support. I hate to see entrepreneurs penalized as these issues are common. I also suggest that you submit deposit as soon as you can- so hopefully the background check happens sooner and if there are issues you know in advance while there is still time to pivot if needed.

Do they get penalized? Have you ever seen a real case?

I actually sent the links in the application, mentioning it is currently offline. I have tons of emails and my former partners' references. I even have a legal entity I opened at the time but never used that I haven't closed until today. Would that be enough?
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Hi all -

Quick question here.

On my resume, I changed my current title to something more general for my industry (as my company is quirky and calls it something specific). Wondering if there will be any raised eyebrows (If accepted) if Kroll calls and my employer gives the quirky title.

Thanks all for the insight.
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what if you worked with two companies that have now ceased to exist? what info can they get?
and what if you worked for a company without a proper contract...i mean i still got paid, but there wouldn't e a paper trail...
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EBM wrote:

I should probably ask one of the admins to pin this post to the top of every page of this thread seeing how I've posted some variant of it about a dozen times, but since they haven't...

Unless you've made a deliberate attempt to be misleading or outright deceitful in your resume, essays, or elsewhere in your application, then the Kroll background check is simply a formality and is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. Schools are not looking to ding people on technicalities--if they have ANY questions about what you've submitted, they will contact you to clarify.
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rickyflinoff wrote:
How do they check info if you spent time between jobs for traveling or for taking care of a sick family member?


Hi,

I had a similar question to this one. How do they verify if you yourself were sick and had to take time off of work? and secondly, if you wrote you left a company because "it was downsizing", that is conveying a lay-off right? I want to be clear what happened without drawing unnecessary negative attention to it. My HR has corroborated this with me and will be explaining it as a lay-off due to downsizing. Finally, one of the reasons I left one of my companies was because I needed a company that would sponsor my visa. This is what I explained in my application but not to my manager at the time, who thinks I left for different reasons. I couldn't tell him the truth because I thought he wouldn't understand so do you think this may be an issue too? It was a four month employment block out of my 4 years of employment
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Question here. Nobody seemed to have mentioned undergraduate internships and research programs (a large number of them are unpaid nowadays). Does Kroll care to check those? For unpaid internships, you literally didn't through the HR process and have no formal supporting document. If anyone listed his/her/their college jobs/internships/work study/research, did Kroll ever contact you to verify those? It would be an absolute pain to dig up documents and files from 5-10 years ago...

I listed almost everything I did since high school. There are over 10 employers... Will they contact each of them? If so, I should start retrieving lost contacts and files starting from today.

I would appreciate any of your advice and help.
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Can anyone explain their experience going through this process?

How many employers will be checked (let's assume that you entered 10+).

Will high school and college part time jobs be checked?

Thank you!
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Originally posted by BonesMBA on 16 Dec 2020, 23:17.
Last edited by BonesMBA on 16 Jan 2021, 00:24, edited 1 time in total.
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BonesMBA wrote:
Is this thread still active? I have a pretty unique circumstance that is stressing me out and would love some feedback

Posted from my mobile device



Could you explain more?
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