Background Checks Aid Employee Selection
Anyone who works for a business has stories to tell about candidates and background checking. I once called a potential employee’s first reference and found he had given me his wife as a reference. When I asked him what he was thinking, he replied that he had talked with his wife the night before his interview about whom he should use as references. She told him to pick people who liked him and would say nice things about him. Who better, he asked me. Hmm.
On another occasion, I audited a client’s hiring process and found they were not doing background checks. At the same time, they were experiencing huge product losses due to employee theft. Long story – short, but they were eventually able to fire several people for theft and several others for different reasons including attendance.
In the most astonishing example of hiring without a background check that I have experienced, they had hired an employee who was recently released from prison. He served time for arson and part of his sentence was to make restitution to the building owner of $100,000. Guess who was stealing products to pay his debt. Yup, you guessed it.
Background checks are a critical component, if not the most important component, of your hiring process. Our guest author, Joshua Levy (pictured) talks about five significant issues in background checks. You’ll want to take a look.
What have you experienced doing background checks? Have a good story? Please share.
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Background checks are an essential part of the hiring process. Every year thousands of dollars are spent hiring the wrong person for the job. More than just background screening, which helps companies prevent theft, drug testing is a key ingredient to prevention. On the job accidents account for huge profit losses and can put a company and it’s employees at risk. It is important to do due dilligence on all employees…some 73% of job applications contain exagerations or out right lies.
Background checks are very important!! Never take an applicant on their word, some 73% of job applications contain falsifications or out right lies. Drug testing is an important component of the background check as well. On the job accidents account for thousands of dollars in losses every year, and 30% of convicted felons admitted to comitting their crimes under the influence. Do the work now, pay a little more in the front, and save thousands in the end.
If Your business involves working with children, the elderly, or the disabled — Because the federal government wants to ensure that the people served are safe from harm, it has made
employment screening background search compulsory for employees or volunteers working with several categories of vulnerable persons. At the same time, if you own such a business or organization, employment screening background checks will safeguard you against potential lawsuits for negligence.
When I date a new guy. I like romantic, but I get worried about being all alone with a person that is really still a stranger. And, he wants to take me some place where we can be alone, so it will get romantic. But, should I run a date background search on him before we go out together. I mean it only takes getting into his car and I could be in trouble. And then, if we keep do dating, will he get mad if tell him that I ran a background check?