Hey guys, I started my Background verification today. For two years in the middle of my education degrees, I was simply working at my father’s small business and so I wrote it as Self Employed. Should I have written Unemployed and will this be a problem? Please help!

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Helping your father in his business
is kind of self employment. Just ensure you have proof of the months you worked there. A proper letter of employment with the company's stamp and sign will do. However the only factor is PF which was not generated and nowadays all companies accept employment basis PF accounts but it's better to be employed than saying not employed as practically you were. The gap will create problems. 2 years is a long time and no one will accept you with that much of a gap. All questions will be answered by the HR as to what proof you would need to present.

Then it would have been very difficult to get placed anywhere. No company hires employees with a huge gap unless you explain it. If you show unemployed, how are you going to explain it? Think. Don't panic, talk to the HR. it's not that you shared a false document/experience or something

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