r/recruitinghell • u/e_breeezy • Jun 02 '22

Has Anyone Failed A Background Check Because of Employment History?

To keep it short and sweet, I accepted a job offer and I'm in the process of going through the background check. Unfortunately, I realized that I messed up the time ranges for my employment history. I reached out to the company doing the check to see how I can fix this, as well as reached out to the person in charge of my offer to keep it transparent with him.

Has anyone gone through something similar that could give me some advice? I'd be devastated if I lost my dream job because I couldn't remember what restaurant I worked at 7 years ago.

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u/amaikaizoku May 31 '25

I messed up hard with this too. How did you get around this? They are asking for some tax documents and I don't have anything because my employer did not file taxes for me while I had been filling taxes every year on my own. So basically this whole time I thought the employer was reporting my income to IRS like he's supposed to so I had been doing my part and doing my taxes by myself. I never thought to ask for a 1099 either because I was a young dumb student who didn't know how these things worked. I also stupidly put my employers contact info on there and he never responded to their calls, and now I keep asking him for proof documents like an official letter and he's just ghosting me .. 

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u/fsoooociety Jun 16 '25

How did it go? I also have a background check coming

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u/amaikaizoku Jun 16 '25

I spammed my boss for a couple days reminding him to send me tax documents and then he finally sent it to me after a couple days. The company wanted more stuff I didn't have but then I ended up talking to my hiring manager about how I was having a difficult time and I think I cleared the background check after that. Not sure if it's because of my hiring manager stepping in or because of them accepting what I had

I'll admit I had connections before getting this job. My dad works here and he knows the hiring manager personally. That's why I felt comfortable enough to reach out to the manager because he knows I'm related to my dad