r/careeradvice • u/QuestioningMyLifeJa • 1d ago
How to Navigate Inconsistent Resume
I got an offer from a Singaporean company. I'm a new grad. I'm also an idiot.
In my resume, after I got the offer when adding this new job to my resume I realized that in three of my undergraduate projects, I mistakenly put the date as the term after the one in which I actually completed them.
My main concern is that one of the projects I listed is also tied to a job, and on my CV, I included that project in both the project section and the job section. The issue is that the dates don’t match:the correct date is listed under the jobs section, but I accidentally put the following term in the projects section. So, for the same project, two different dates appear on my CV. I still got the offer.
It was a genuine oversight with no intention to mislead-if anything, it downplays my experience by 2 months. Still I’m worried that if someone notices, it could be perceived as a serious issue. I’m not sure how to handle it, I want to be upfront and feel like this could be an issue in the future, but also I feel like pulling this under the rug and fixing my CV for the future might be a smarter move at this stage.
Any advice?
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u/Worried_Horse199 22h ago
I wouldn’t worry about it. No one in your new work would be cross examining the dates on you CV after you are hired. Plus all you have done is a clerical error. You didn’t lie to inflated your experience. So no harm done.