Background Check Secrets
A Basic Background Check Policy
Employers do not assume that applicants lie in their resumes for job applications-it is the contrary. A basic background check policy is most times the final step that employers take to ensure a sound hiring choice and to protect them from future business risks.
Job Competence: For most employers, a background check policy is a way of verifying claims made by job applicants during the screening process. Due to the crowded employment market with limited job vacancies, exaggerating educational experience or job histories can occur. As a future employee, it will do you more good when you rest assured that those working for you are qualified for the jobs they hold.
Safety in the Workplace: As an employer, it is a commonplace to face specific responsibilities of your employee's welfare, customer's welfare as well as the visitors. For instance, when you hire someone who is capable of violence and such a person attacks and harms another employee, you may face a lawsuit of negligent hiring. It is your job to know who is working for you and what you are capable of and in this case, a background check would have pointed this out, if the employee is capable of harming others or not.
Workplace Theft: These days, most theft done these days is performed by insiders. A basic background check policy will help an employer to make an intelligent hiring decision which will, in turn, limit the possibilities of future company theft.
Honesty and Integrity: A confirmed fabrication made on an employee's resume or a purposeful omission which is later found out about an employee is often enough to question such employee’s integrity and honesty and can potentially disqualify them from being hired. Without a proper background check policy, an employer can accidentally hire the wrong ones.
Higher Quality Employees: When a basic background check policy is maintained at a workplace, a virtuous circle can be created, whereby the higher quality of applicants is hired leading to an overall quality experience at the workplace. This workplace can attract better employees in the future.
Regulation compliance: The Federal government and even your business partners expect you to verify that your employees are trustworthy and are qualified. In other cases, the compliance requirements are defined by the law, and you are supposed to know them. Compliance is tricky for employers since local mandates and states allow employers NOT to employ certain applicants with individual histories. These histories may be contradictory to Federal anti-discrimination law.
Finally, as an employer, to make intelligent decisions, you need reliable information, and a good background policy can provide you with one. Therefore, it will be unwise to rely on instinctive feelings in assessing a potential applicant.
