While it is becoming more of a standard practice to conduct background checks prior to offering a job candidate an offer, there can still be mixed feelings from the applicant.

Some job applicants can perceive background checks as the precursor to being micro managed or watched once they actually begin to work at your store or company. That can make a difference in some of the applicants who would apply for a job opening. Not every applicant who wants to avoid pre-employment screening does so because they have something to hide. Sometimes they just want to ensure their drive and innovation will be put to good use and not squelched under a barrage of regulations and managerial control.

If you need those types of creative and innovative employees, you do not want them turned off before they are even hired.

That being said, the solution is not in forgoing background checks. The answer is in properly explaining the advantages that the employee will benefit from.

The number one benefit is safety. You (as the employer) are doing everything you can to provide a safe working environment. By eliminating employees with past criminal offenses that include violence or theft, you are securing the workplace for your employees.

Secondly, by verifying pervious work experience, your employees have a better chance of working beside other employees who actually know what they say they do. One of the biggest workplace complaints is that co-workers are inept. If they had lied on their resume to get a job they were unqualified for, they will eventually show their deficit in their job performance.

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Finding a background check company can be a daunting task. You need to find one that is competent and legitimate. Faced with a barrage of information, both good and bad, can make it even harder to determine which one to pick.

It is important to conduct pre-employment screening to find the best-qualified applicant for your open jobs. When you have a background check company to do the digging, you will have more thorough checks completed.

One of the first things to look at is price. Each background check company will have a set of pricing guidelines. Even though you might be tempted to go with the lowest price company, you might not be getting everything you are expecting to have.

There is usually a reason why the price is so low. They may not verify information through a legitimate credit-reporting agency. That can put you into potential legal problems down the road. If they give you bad information that causes you to decline an applicant, you are the one that will ultimately be held responsible. An applicant has a legal recourse as they can verify and dispute this information.

The price might also be low because the company itself is a scam. They might want to steal personal information for their own usage. By keeping a low price, they are attempting to lure in unsuspecting customers who will hand over applicants’ information without question.

Finding a low price can be a warning that further investigation on your part is needed.

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In order to conduct a realistic cost / benefit analysis of conducting background checks, you need to be able to anticipate both the short and long term costs. In this situation, the comparison would be between the immediate or short-term cost of paying for pre-employment screening to be conducted, and the long-term cost associated with not running background checks.

The short-term cost of background checks is going to come from the thoroughness of the check. Will you hire a background check company to conduct your pre-employment screening, or will you do it yourself? If you hire a background check company, chances are they can investigate more areas than you can yourself. They may charge a flat fee per month, or they may charge per check depending on the frequency of your hiring needs.

The long-term costs to consider if you are not running background checks is the impact of higher turnover rates. If you do not weed out the bad seeds up front, how much will you pay for their initial training and later on for training their replacement? What about your potential inventory or cash losses created from hiring a career criminal? Not every employer prosecutes for theft, even though they terminate employees for it.

Only you can analyze your known data and speculate the rest with any degree of accuracy. Most companies find out that background checks eventually balance out the cost of a single bad hire. Unfortunately, most of those companies figure it out only after a major case of employee theft has surfaced.

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Many hiring managers look at a few very important things when they review applications. They look to see if this is someone with the skill set required for the position. They look to see if this is someone that might have some longevity with their company; reducing turnover costs. They look to see if this is someone who can pass the required criminal background checks included in their pre-employment screening.

All of those things are important to a hiring manager. As a small business owner, we actually are the hiring managers. There is rarely payroll for someone other than us to be a hiring manager. As such, we need to determine what our end game is going to be for this employee.

As much as we hate to admit it, sometimes we simply hire someone to be a warm body in our stores. That means we never really expect much out of them and when they quit unexpectedly, well, we are not surprised. We didn’t hire to make our store better. We simply hired to have someone with a name badge on in our store.

These are the decisions that get us into trouble. When we don’t expect the best, we get disposable employees who may or may not pass more in depth criminal background checks.

The end game is not for longevity. Unfortunately, these are the employees who will cost us so much more than we realize. They will be the ones who steal, give poor service, and cost us more money, as we have to start the hiring and training process over again in such a short span of time.

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Once upon a time, I had an employee. He was very good at certain aspects of his job. However, he was prone to drama in his life. Anytime the drama struck, his job performance would falter. Since his pre-employment screening did not show his weakness for personal drama, we hired him based solely on his job application.

Fast forward many years later. My husband received an application for one of his stores. The applicant seemed qualified on paper, so my husband had a phone interview with him. It was only after asking some questions, did it come out that this applicant may have worked under one of my friends supervision at a previous job.

When my husband asked me if she might know him, I actually said yes, and that I was also one of his previous supervisors. It’s a small retail world after all. Well, even though I knew I could not say much about his personal downfalls, I could speak to the position he held at my place of employment.

My friend also confirmed his position with her company. The interesting thing was that this applicant worked in a very different capacity than the job he was applying for.

This, unfortunately, is not uncommon; an applicant omitting details of their work history to seem like they have more relevant experience than what they really do. It was only by chance that my husband asked the right questions to get more information. Had he only relied on the information provided on the application, his pre employment screening would not have given him the information he needed to make an informed decision.

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There are many companies out there that specialize in being background check experts. Their main function is to dig deep into an applicant or current employee’s past to help make a realistic determination in the hiring process.

Unfortunately, even these background check experts can miss out on finding a critical piece of history. As we have seen in some of the more tragic recent events, major companies whose employees need extremely high levels of security clearance have missed something big in their pre-employment screening.

So why spend the money and take the risk of outsourcing your background checks? Well, if the big guys can’t always find everything, what makes you think you can do better? Do you have their resources, time or their technology to more thoroughly conduct these background checks?

I know that I don’t, and realistically you probably don’t either. This is not a testament that sometimes even the background check experts can fail. Rather this is a realistic look at how hard it really is to conduct thorough background checks.

These are the people who have nothing to do in their day but to follow up on leads, contact out of county or state jurisdictions and run traces on work and address histories. They can track known acquaintances and family who might be liabilities if a potential employee gets sucked into their outside influence.

I am much more willing to let the experts spend the time to be as complete as possible because I know that I have a better chance of missing something than they would.

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Who is Generation X and why do we care what they are doing? Well, they are roughly the part of the current workforce that is between about 35-55 years old. We all know better than to hire or not hire someone based on their age, but it is important to be mindful of what this sector of the workforce is about. Once we know what they are doing, it will become even clearer why there is a need to consistently run an employee background check.

According to a recent poll about 44% of all jobs are held by a Generation Xer. Of those, 53% are completely disengaged and an additional 19% are so unhappy at their jobs they feel the need to make everyone else around them miserable too.

With that kind of statistic, it makes you wonder why you would even want to take a risk and hire a Generation X employee. Well the answer is simple. That age range is the section of employees that have had ample time to get their college education – this includes Master’s and Ph D levels. They are also the ones that have years of experience in their field, but still might take a job for less money.

The flip side is that once hired, these employees tend to become very unhappy. That makes them more likely to perform poorly, or even starts to cross lines into employee theft.

Pre-employment screening and employee background checks help evaluate your potential risk. It can uncover high frequencies in job changes and possibly a trend that they might be leaving jobs quickly due to theft or other job related investigations.

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Where to start? When I look at a job applicant, I start by looking through their job application. Working with a bigger company, I get online submittals that are carefully screened by a key word system that looks to pick up on specific traits. It is like an initial background check. It is a pre-employment screening tool to help stream line the hiring process for us.

For most small businesses, this type of pre-employment screening is a luxury that they do not have. Small business owners and managers usually have to manually review a multitude of paper applications. The plus side is that you might end up with a paper resume with the application.

That can be a great way to do a type of pre-employment screening that automated systems do not have. Electronic resumes usually are amended to the website’s fonts and formatting. By seeing a paper resume, you know that everything was hand made by the applicant.

This gives an insight into your applicant. You get to see more of their personality. Is the resume formal or personable? What type of paper was it printed on – stationary or plain typing paper? How about a bright neon color paper with a crazy hard to read font? Did they bother to not only spell check but proof read their writing?

You can see a person’s attention to detail better on a paper resume than on an online, standardized application.

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With so many companies making it blatantly obvious that the employees are an after thought, pre employment screening is 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 employee background checks.

As business owners and managers, we are all aware of the benefits from low turnover, so we really should be presenting pre employment screening in the same context that we do vacation time, insurance, or 401K opportunities. In other words, these are benefits to and for the employee, not just a protection for the company.  The more an employee feels like they are taken care of by the company, the longer they will want to stay and be engaged.

Make sure that they understand the effects of employee background checks, and more importantly the direct effect of not having them.

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.

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 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.

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It used to be pretty simple. All you had to do was go to any number of websites for your background checks. Most of these websites were not really background check experts, as they claimed to be. It was slowly discovered that there were issues with the accuracy of the credit report. As more job seekers were denied employment due to these inaccuracies, it eventually turned into a legal issue.

You see, employers were relying on bad information to make decisions. Job seekers had little recourse, as these unsanctioned 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. Only legitimate background check experts could conduct background checks. 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 this pre employment screening 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.

Now that only certified Credit Reporting Agencies can conduct background checks, it is easier to trust the information that is presented in order to make sound hiring decisions.

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