Pre employment screening is highly recommended by the Small Business Administration. They realize that one of the most important factors in a small business’s success is its ability to hire and retain quality employees.

If a small business hires improperly, their chance of success are drastically reduce. A “bad” employee can do unending damage to a business. 

When customer service is lacking, the company’s image is hurt. Customer’s stop coming in, and word of mouth takes care of any remaining customers who may have contemplated shopping with you. 
A bad employee can be the root cause of such a change in your customer base.

A side step from bad customer service is bad employee morale. An employee that shows up late to work, doesn’t pull their weight, or disregards policy and procedure brings everyone down. Time is spent correcting their actions and playing damage control with the rest of the hard working employees. This is just one more disadvantage of a bad employee.

Finally, the most egregious of these employee infractions can pale in comparison to the damage an employee can do if they are stealing from you.

These employees can still turn away customers and fellow employees, in addition to causing financial disaster from cash theft, credit card fraud or inventory theft.

Pre employment screening and employee background checks help to weed out these potentially disastrous employees. The reports can contain vital information that might sway the hiring decision one way or another.

Because the Small Business Administration has seen the repeated advantages of using pre employment screening and employee background checks, they are strong proponents of using them.

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In my experience, people will admit to the lowest denominator that they think they can get away with. Employees and shoplifters only admit to a fraction of what they actually stole. Other criminals will downplay the number of times they committed a crime. Do they really think that we will believe they were caught the very first time they did something wrong? No, they probably had done the action/ criminal activity over and over until it was so blatant that they were finally caught. Criminal background checks help to unearth if there is more activity than what a job applicant is admitting to.

I was recently looking to hire a new employee. He came on a referral and the store managers wanted to rush to hire him, even to bypass the usual pre employment screening. I was hesitant to hire someone so quickly, but I told them to fill out the application first and I would see what I could do.

On his application, he put down that he had a DUI a few years ago. While I am glad that he admitted to his charge, I was still left with questions about his judgment.

Is this someone with a drinking problem, or just had a momentary lapse in judgment? 

Can I rely on them in a high impact situation, or to have consistency in their day-to-day behaviors?

I knew then that I needed to have a more thorough criminal background check. As I suspected, this applicant had a long history of DUI related incidents. He had thought if he admitted to one, I wouldn’t pursue other pre employment screening and see how many he really had.

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For some employees, Social media is an outlet for their personal expressions. In spite of their need to over share personal information or their questionable behaviors, many in the job pool believe that their personal lives should remain private. Any digging into social media sites would therefore constitute a violation of their privacy. This puts potential employers in a precarious position if they decide to use social media as a part of their pre employment screening.

With privacy and security controls available on such social media websites and networks, it should reasonably fall to the responsibility of a job candidate to keep their sites private and block public viewing. If they do not want the Internet documentation of their activities, they should take the responsibility to maintain their privacy controls.

In response to the business need for a social networking arena there are sites specifically designed and created for the working individual. These sites give potential employers unofficial employee background checks that are allowable for hiring purposes.

Since the site is to be shared within the professional community, instead of a personal network of friends and family, employers are welcomed more freely to investigate through those networks. The down side to using these for informal pre employment screening is that the job applicant puts the information on the site. It is at their discretion what is posted and what is omitted.

While the debate continues to surround social media as a viable way to conduct employee background checks, it is probably best to have a more traditional pre employment screening weed out your job candidates.

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So often when we (as business owners and managers) think of running background checks for potential employees, we do so with the mindset that it is for our benefit. We rarely stop and think about pre employment screening from the perspective of a new hire.

Maybe it is time that we do.

With so many companies making it blatantly obvious that the employees are an after thought, background checks are frequently viewed as another company hoop to be jumped through.

Maybe it is time we talk to our potential employees about the benefits that they will get from undergoing the pre employment screening.

Since we are all aware of the benefits from low turnover, we should be presenting background checks in the same context that we do vacation time, insurance, or 401K opportunities.

When you are able to weed out potentially dangerous or deceitful employees, you are creating a safer work environment for the employees who do make it past the initial screening.

When you are validating education history, you are ensuring that other employees will not have to work double duty to compensate for the lied about skill and knowledge sets of a potential bad hire.

When you verify work history, you can discover large employment gaps or frequent job bouncing. Those employees can exhibit a serious lack of commitment to their job and their productivity. Not hiring those candidates help keep high employee morale as everyone is doing their share of the workload.

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When you contract with reputable and experience background check experts, you should not have to worry that they will try and make your business liable for errors found on pre employment screening. They need to stand behind their work and the background checks that they generate for you. 

If for some reason, the background check company will not back their work, or pushes the liability back to you, you need to go elsewhere.  That should be an enormous red flag that these so called background check experts may not actually be in the business of providing accurate background checks.

When you conduct pre employment screening, your business can be held liable for the information that you find. In particular, if a potential candidate is declined employment based off of those findings, they can come back at you and your business.

If a potential job candidate feels like they were wrongfully declined, they have the option to contest the check, and bring potential litigation against your business if the pre employment screening was proven to contain misinformation.

When you contract background check experts, you push this liability back to them. They are now responsible for providing you accurate and timely employee background checks. If for some reason there is determined to be erroneous information, the liability is with the background check experts and not with you.

Employee background checks are not always accurate. It is in how the errors are resolved and how the potential candidate feels they are treated in the process that determines how likely they will be to start litigation against you.

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Customers are very in tune with how employees act and interact. Often, our customers see and understand more about our employee’s behavior than what we ever will. They see them at their best and also at their worst. Your customers see the actions of our employees when we are not there. When we bypass pre employment screening, we are often left with employees who believe that when the cat is away, the mice should play.

Your employees are not going to act out when we, or other managers, are there. They will act out when we are not. If we have hired employees who do not have drive, motivation or integrity, it will become most apparent the second we leave the building. Pre employment screening is a way to determine if we have hired quality employees, before we actually hire them.

Your front line defense, as it relates to your employees, is the line of communication and representation between your company and your customers. If this front line does not represent your business, as you see fit, your sales will suffer from customers who leave and will not come back.

Pre employment screening should be at the front of your hiring procedures. This will help ensure you are hiring the best to represent your business when you are not there. Without pre employment screening, you risk hiring employees who do not have integrity, motivation, or the drive to provide quality customer service in your absence.

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Pre employment screening is designed to weed out the bad hires before they get past the interviewing process. What we often overlook as hiring managers and owners is the far reaches of a bad employee. The costs that one employee can incur to your business can be potentially devastating.

In the most common ways, employee can cause inventory losses. They can steal, defraud, or simply be so oblivious to policy and procedure; they cause losses through their negligence and inattentive behaviors.

These financial implications create a tangible loss in your inventory, and an increase to your merchandise costs due to repurchasing your inventory to satisfy necessary stock levels.

The next level of damage comes in less tangible ways. A bad apple employee can create devastating issue with morale. The worse your employees feel, the less productive they become, and the more they turn off customers who will go some place else to shop.

Once it starts, it is difficult and can sometimes take years or massive employee turnover to remedy. Costing you money in lost sales and increased training costs for rehires. It also takes away your productive time as you are spending more time dealing with employee issues.

Are you innovative or have proprietary advantages? Don’t think you are invulnerable to this sort of attack. Restaurants that have a “secret sauce” have had employees steal the recipe so they can copy it or sell it for their own profit eliminating the proprietary advantage the company once had.

Understanding that these employees can ultimately ruin a business beyond repair puts a pre employment screening in perspective from a financial viewpoint.

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You might assume that an employee caught stealing from their previous employer will automatically appear on pre employment screening. 

This is not always the case. An employee must be given the chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. If they are convicted and found guilty by those courts, then- and only then- will their crimes be committed to public record.

If you have hired background check experts to execute your initial employee background checks, you are assuming that they will be able to track down every little tidbit of information that they can.

For the most part, you are right. No matter how thorough the background check experts are, they can only discover so much, based on which reports they are searching.

If it is a rather egregious offense, the basic employee background checks should discover them. However, there are lesser offenses that are just as criminal, but do not show up on pre employment screening. If a company does not prosecute- for whatever reason- an employee’s misdoings will not become public record, therefore not appearing on employee background checks.

This is when background check experts must then do additional employment verifications or search agencies that document employee theft cases. They may charge an additional cost to potential employers to do these additional searches. Depending on the quality of the employees you hire on a regular basis, this may end up being money well spent- compared to hiring a known thief.

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Did you know that employee background checks must be from a certified Credit Reporting Agency? It didn’t used to be that way. In the not so distant past, your employee background checks could come from any information source you could find.

It used to be pretty simple. All you had to do was go to any number of websites for your pre employment screening. The problem that was discovered was the accuracy of the credit report. As more job seekers were denied employment due to these inaccuracies, it eventually turned into a legal issue. Employers were relying on bad information to make decisions. Job seekers had little recourse, as these websites were unwilling to correct the issues or to work to resolve them between the employer and job seeker.

The end result is that legislation was passed to protect both parties. By limiting the companies who could give a report to an employer, quality standards were put into place. The employers are now guaranteed to have more accurate information. Job seekers are given an opportunity to correct any incorrect information found on a report and then have that information passed back to the employer.

Job seekers must also give permission to have these employee background checks conducted. This serves a two-fold purpose: job seekers must be aware of the checks to be conducted, and therefore have an opportunity to be honest and forthcoming about any potential information that will be discovered.

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We usually think of the big three credit reporting agencies when running pre employment screening, primarily because that is where we will find major defaults like foreclosures and public judgments. While these reports will give us a good insight into an applicant’s spending/ lifestyle habits, there are often other underlying issues that might not be made apparent in such a report.

What you might not know is that there are several other consumer-reporting agencies that can be used to conduct other kinds of background checks. These other agencies are actually fairly diverse in the information the collect. Because of that wide range, you (as a hiring manager or owner) you have a better understanding of the applicant as a whole, not just what incidents appear on a credit report.

For example, you can do a pre employment screening that revolves around their check writing habits. Even though it is not as commonplace as what it might have once been, some people will still write checks, especially if they are floating their own personal loan.

A bad check will not show up on one of the big three’s reports unless it goes past the point of collections. A check verification system will show if the checks are being written in the first place.

You can also find employment verification services too. These are certified agencies that track employment dates and sometimes the reason why an employee was terminated- particularly useful for employee theft cases that were not prosecuted.

The list of alternative reports goes on to include many different areas that, as an employer, is worth looking into during the background checks.

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