Depends, some agencies will disqualify you for falsifying information on your apllication. I suggest you talk to your background investigator before you go in for the polygraph.

Anxiety

It's certainly possible that the discrepancy you've mentioned may be brought up during the polygraph examination. Ideally, the polygrapher should have received any information developed by background investigators before polygraphing you. And one of the relevant questions typically asked during a pre-employment polygraph examination concerns the accuracy and completeness of the information provided in one's application.

If you have a point of contact you could get in touch with to rectify the discrepancy in your application, I think it would probably be best to do so before the polygraph.

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Fortunately it was not negative, but it just doesn't align correctly with the information I provided on the forms. I'm just curious if information is deemed incorrect in any form, would it keep me from being invited in for a polygraph. I had so many jobs (being right out of highschool (waitressing type jobs)), that I wasn't able to remember that I left one sooner than I said I did.

Had it been negative, would that have kept me from the polygraph? I'm just trying to figure out how big of a problem a wrong date could be, and if the date being wrong would be seen as negative.

Thanks much
Liz

anxietyguy wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2005 at 2:55am:
I guess I mispoke originally in the wording I chose. It was a termination discrepency, but the discrepency is not that I was terminated, but that I was terminated earlier than I said I was. This threw off the hiring date of my next job I think, and then maybe another job after that since I just remembered when I was terminated, then could only piece together rough estimates of how long I worked at the other waitressing jobs. With one discrepency, I could understand, but with the other possible discrepencies of hire dates looming, it is starting to concern me if it's too late to get the toothpaste back in tube so to speak. I'm also concerned how much of details will give away my identity, which is why I am being so obscure with my details, just trying to ask broad questions.

Thanks much
Liz