A nolle prosequi go on a criminal record does go on your criminal record. Any time you are arrested it does. This is not a hugely bad thing. Most companies and such depending on what you were arrested for understand that things happen. If you have a nolle pros. you need answer questions about your background honestly. You can have the record expunged but an expungement will show up on certain
. background checks. Explain to the people that you want to hire you or who are checking your background what happened and why. Always keep a copy of your court file to be able to show the outcome of the case if you are having a background check.