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Codesmith Grads - Stop lying on your background checks. Your OSP is not 'employment history'. I've received a number of couple of people having trouble with background checks because they put their project as 'work experience'. STOP.

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u/peppiminti wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Not sure where you’re getting information from but Codesmith has never signed off OSP as paid experience and has never told us to put it down as paid work experience. If students are lying then that’s their own fault. Lying on resumes has always been an issue in the job market th

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I believe I agreed with that in my post. My the 'things' people told me about involve Codesmith cooperating in some fashion and they are clearly aware of it. I totally get that if a student is like "help, I put OSP as work experience and they want to verify the background check, what do I do!?!?!" that if Codesmith staff tell the person "too bad, you're toast!" that would be bad. But from my understanding, this has happened enough times that Codesmith is aware of it. I surfaced this to a leader in a 1-1 call and the leader said they would look into it because this person was shocked and puzzled that it was happening. Well it's still happening!