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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 120035" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>It will most likely just be job title and employment dates and just a check to see you aren’t guilty of any misconduct.</p><p></p><p>The firm could ask for more, but the reality is for those type of roles, your employer will only confirm when you were employed and under what job title. If that job title changed as you moved departments, then that would be reflected in the reference. If your job title didn’t change, then the change of departments wouldn’t be flagged (but the law firm wouldn’t really care anyway).</p><p></p><p>Discrepancy in dates are slightly different. But it really depends on what the discrepancy is. Something that is a few days out will be looked at very differently than something that is a few years out too. Also depends how clear the error is. For instance, I had an error on one of my reference checks as I put 29 April instead of 28 April (or vice versa) and it was just a typo where the numbers were close together on the keyboard. Claiming a typo of February when you meant October is probably not going to look favourable. If you could provide clarity on something like you thought your employment started on X date but actually it was Y date as you had to complete formal training first, then that could be easily explained or evidenced (for instance you may have correspondence that confirms your training started on X date).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 120035, member: 2672"] It will most likely just be job title and employment dates and just a check to see you aren’t guilty of any misconduct. The firm could ask for more, but the reality is for those type of roles, your employer will only confirm when you were employed and under what job title. If that job title changed as you moved departments, then that would be reflected in the reference. If your job title didn’t change, then the change of departments wouldn’t be flagged (but the law firm wouldn’t really care anyway). Discrepancy in dates are slightly different. But it really depends on what the discrepancy is. Something that is a few days out will be looked at very differently than something that is a few years out too. Also depends how clear the error is. For instance, I had an error on one of my reference checks as I put 29 April instead of 28 April (or vice versa) and it was just a typo where the numbers were close together on the keyboard. Claiming a typo of February when you meant October is probably not going to look favourable. If you could provide clarity on something like you thought your employment started on X date but actually it was Y date as you had to complete formal training first, then that could be easily explained or evidenced (for instance you may have correspondence that confirms your training started on X date). [/QUOTE]
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