u/Beginning_Chicken_97

Question re application form

Applied for a Civil Service role and now concerned I made a mistake on the employment history section.

On the application I put my last role as 2016–2026. I’ve realised that during 2016 I was technically on secondment from another organisation before becoming a substantive permanent employee in 2017.

So the experience itself is genuine and I was working there in 2016 one day a week, but the official permanent employment date is 2017.

The form only asked for years rather than exact months/dates, but I’m now panicking that if I get to pre-employment checks it’ll look like I lied on the application.

Has anyone had something similar come up during Civil Service onboarding/vetting? Do they normally ask you to complete a more detailed employment history form later where you can clarify dates?

Trying to work out whether this is a genuine issue or whether I’m massively overthinking it.

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u/Beginning_Chicken_97 — 18 days ago