We live in a time where documents are routinely faked, ending up in legal
tangles for companies who failed to hold a proper employment screening
background check on their employees. If you hire a new IT guy with a
glowing experience background that blinds you to examine his deeper past,
you could end up getting dragged to court and your company’s name along with it,
when that IT guy is sued for sexual harassment charges. Who could have thought
his mild manner and schoolboy mustache hides criminal records?
An employment screening background can verify the what-about the person
you are eyeing on hiring. His credentials, his advanced degree, his internship
with companies, his social security number down to the year of his graduation
from which college; from his driving history, credit history, and finally
criminal records of charges hurled at him, dropped, and those for which was
convicted of. You should even know when and how long he stayed in drug rehab or
with the local alcoholic recovery group. An employment screening background
check‘s purpose is to build some avenue of trust, of both hands seen on
the table, nothing up one’s sleeves, so to speak. Like that adage of old: trust,
but always verify.
The resume is not the end things, regardless of how shiny it looks, regardless
even of how pleasant the applicant looks like. Introduction to psychology
classes will tell you that people tend to associate bad intentions and suspect
wrong doings with people who are less attractive, than those who are. This basic
human bias can make you hire people, overlooking an employment screening
background check in the process. Don’t.
In resources are tight, you can do the employment screening background
check yourself, starting with an online search. Or you can use some free
online background checking websites. Or you can hire an
investigative firm for more thorough run, giving you an exhaustive comb of the
Internet and of information not usually accessible that way. Either way, to both
increase productivity and lessen the chances of getting problem employees, you
cannot overlook doing an employment screening background check