So in my masters program we worked with partner companies are graduate consultants. These were unpaid roles but I put it on ky resume to document the experience. I put it on my resume since it was relevant, but got questioned about it during a background check (was on resume but not background check). I explained what it was and that I was unpaid, but is this a big deal? In all my interviews I explicitly mentioned it was during grad school

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Just chill it doesn’t matter. If questioned about it you can explain.

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Since you weren’t paid, there’s no pay stub

But have a point of contact at both your university and the partner companies to verify and confirm to the third party background check firm that you did that and have that experience

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I did the same but I was clear with the mentioning in my resume. I remember using the phrase “student researcher - data science” or something like that and it didn’t cause any trouble. I think you should be fine too!

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Just to get some peace of mind, try to get an experience letter (from their official email and print copy in their letter head) stating that you worked with them. I was in a similar boat, the company I worked for, shut down operations a year since I started grad school. I had the paystubs, but not for all months. I pulled some strings and got a letter from the then CIO of the company.

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Did you call it volunteer work? Unpaid intern? Intern?

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I think you will be fine. Whenever a question comes up during a background check and it is something small like that (aka not withholding info about an arrest or something) I think they’ll just ask for an explanation and move along. Had a similar thing happen when I started at big 4 and it was fine :)

You should be fine.

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