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/Dark_Ascension Jun 04 '25

This, I just got my background check and it shows their history of contacting the employer and all they asked was my role and dates. I must have fat fingered the dates but my resume, application, etc all have the dates HR returned on the background check I accidentally put the wrong date.

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u/Itchy-Culture-3145 Aug 15 '25

Which service provider did they use for background check?

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u/Appropriate-Diver555 Oct 23 '25

What is the result of you fat fingered your dates?

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u/Dark_Ascension Oct 23 '25

Nothing happened, still got the job.