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New grad with mostly unpaid experience, anxious about background checks.

Just recently graduated from university and I’m in the process of job searching. I haven’t received any job offers yet but I’ve been getting anxious about what to do when the time comes for a background check. I have my experiences listed on my resume as work experience but there is only one I was officially paid for. Other than that, I’ve done two unpaid internships for non-profits abroad and before that, I “worked” for my dad as he’s self-employed and makes documentaries. I mean I did work for my dad, but I was never officially his employee or anything. Would I still list everything when the time comes for a background check? I’m worried because my two internships were abroad and although I could reach out to my former supervisors and ask them to be references, they have foreign numbers so we only communicated via whatsapp. Then as for…


Just recently graduated from university and I’m in the process of job searching. I haven’t received any job offers yet but I’ve been getting anxious about what to do when the time comes for a background check. I have my experiences listed on my resume as work experience but there is only one I was officially paid for. Other than that, I’ve done two unpaid internships for non-profits abroad and before that, I “worked” for my dad as he’s self-employed and makes documentaries. I mean I did work for my dad, but I was never officially his employee or anything.

Would I still list everything when the time comes for a background check? I’m worried because my two internships were abroad and although I could reach out to my former supervisors and ask them to be references, they have foreign numbers so we only communicated via whatsapp. Then as for working for my dad, I can’t put my own dad down as a reference either so I really don’t know how I would be able to prove any of this. It’s frustrating because my unpaid experiences, as opposed to my paid one, were the ones that I really learned from and can vouch for in interviews.

Will I never get hired? HELP I’m just hoping to get some reassurance & advice here

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