
Originally Posted by
ManyRoses
I think that the whole "background check" thing is worrying people more than it probably should...Laurisa makes some good points. I would like to add to those something that I have said before in posts about cheque cashing and business names - Most people who are not in this industry do NOT know what "streamate", "MFC" etc etc ARE. So even if it did pop up on a background check, your vanilla employer is probably not going to know what that is. We forget, sometimes, because the names of these companies are just so well-known to us, that they are not known to the majority of people.
On top of that, background checks are usually done for a few reasons - to make sure that you are telling the truth on your resume, to make sure that you do not have any criminal convictions, and occasionally to check your credit (the idea being that good credit is an indicator of reliability and stability, or that if you are working with money, you should be good with your own). SO if you put on your resume "online customer service/affiliate marketing, independent contractor for several companies from date x to date y) and then they do a background check, even if the name "streamate.com" pops up, they are most likely going to look through that background check and think "ok, yup, looks like they aren't a criminal, good credit, not lying about their address, dates from resume match the dates on here, good." they may go as far as to wonder about what "streamate.com" is, but for most people, that wouldn't go beyond "hmmm, streamate.com...oh right, the resume says that they were working for some online businesses. That must be what this is. ok."
The liklihood of it showing up is small, and the chances of the person reading through knowing what it means if it does show up is also pretty small. I would be far more concerned about being recognized, outed online, or making a slip up myself than anyone knowing what it meant if they decided to do a background check and it showed up.
And on the off chance that someone did see it, and knew what it meant, you could just say that you were doing online marketing etc for that company. If you've put it on your resume, they would have to do some real digging to prove you wrong.
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