I signed job offer letter and sent it back but I am still worried..

Discussion in 'Employment & Jobs' started by Ifailed, Mar 25, 2017.

  1. Ifailed

    Ifailed Bit Poster

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    Ok, here's the story. I had interview with certain company that's located out of my state 3 times. First time was skype interview and I didn't think it went well because one of the interviewer seemed very tired and bored while interviewing me. But somehow, they offered me second interview in my state because HR manager is coming to my state due to business trip in next few weeks and he wants to meet me. After few weeks, he came and I met with him and the director who held higher position than him. Both of them seemed to be very nice and they were really nice to me. They offered me to visit their office in their state and they sent me plane ticket. About a week later, I went to their office and had interview with HR manager and other guys. Apparently, HR manager had highest position among them and he told the other guys I am 100% decided candidate by the director at the start of interview. So yes, the other guys couldn't say anything since the guy who held highest position among them wanted to hire me. They gave me a tour to their office and work place and made an verbal offer at the end of the day. I met HR manager and he told me welcome to the team but he said they will run background check soon. Anyway, I received offer letter next day and signed it.

    Do I still have to be worried at this point or is this done deal? What I am worrying about is background check. Offer letter says they could turn it over if my background check doesn't meet their satisfactory. I have no criminal record, no driving tickets and nothing. But my credit score went down to 570 or something last year due to stupid mistake and it took me 6 months to bring my score back to 700+. The other problem I have is past employment history. I worked at my family business places and I didn't report tax from 2011 to 2016 because I was going to school and didn't even make 10k an year. I started paying tax again last November because I finished school and started working full time again but that report didn't kick in yet. I also said my last salary was 60k but that's only if I worked full time for an year and the amount is before tax and included free rent, meals etc so actual money I bring a month is much lower than $5000 a month after tax and deducting other benefits. Would these 2 problems cause my job at this point? It doesn't require security clearance but I don't know how deep they will dig in considering the company is pretty big. Oh.. btw, I am going there as IT specialist.
     
  2. Juelz

    Juelz Gigabyte Poster

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    You shouldn't have said anything that wasn't true, you just have to hope and pray they dont dig too deep, I don't know how far HR go with things in the USA. I was in this position at one point but my situation was different, when my employer offered me the job and I said subject to background checks I couldn't sleep for a month, due to past runnings with the law. All the advice I can give to you is hope and pray, only time will tell.
     
  3. Ifailed

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    Well.. I didn't lie about anything. They didn't talk about my credit history and anything that has to do with credit history wasn't even on my resume. I didn't break law, I never been arrested and I never had bad driving issues but some companies look at your financial record as well as past employment salary and if anything looks remotely bad, they don't even tell me what was wrong with it and just move on to next candidate. I am getting rent and free meals so 60k salary wasn't really a lie but if they purely count money that's going into my account or amount of tax I paid, it could potentially cause misunderstanding and may not even ask me or give me a chance to explain why numbers don't match there.
     
  4. SimonD
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    SimonD Terabyte Poster

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    Your FICO score should have no bearing on the hiring process, everyone makes mistakes so don't worry about it too much.

    As far as salary expectations they 'could' pick you up on it if you have anything that you need to present to your new company that shows your past years earnings but quite honestly everyone pushes out the boat as far as wanting more money is concerned, usually the salary on offer is only offered after a number of considerations are taken into account, the location of the role, the type of role, the earnings of your peers. If you went for the role requesting 20k more than the other engineers then yes you're going to be hard pressed to get it, but if the offered salary is on par with the rest of the team and is on par with your experiences then you should be good to go.

    I am assuming this is a US based company based on the credit scoring (especially with the score of 700 being used which is usually indicative of a FICO score) but if it's not you may just want to look around and see what similar roles are paying in your area.

    Things to consider with the role, is it a home based role? are you expected to commute out of state regularly and where would your home office be based (in or out of state), the reason I ask is that I manage a number of guys in the US and they have to be very careful about where they pay their taxes, they have to live in the state that their office is based otherwise they are in the risk of being double taxed.

    Please let me know how things proceed.
     
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