When you have background check experts conducting your pre-employment screening, it can be difficult to tell if they are actually doing a thorough job. If you have check after check come back with nothing on it, is it because there is nothing to find, or because the experts aren’t doing their job properly?

The best way to find out is to have the background check experts that you have hired, tell you what areas of screening they are conducting. You should be able to see each of the background checks that they run. Some examples would be employment and education verifications, perhaps a driver’s license inquiry for moving violations (or worse) and a look for outstanding warrants.

I had a professor once tell me that you will never hear about a good design, a bad one- yes, but never a good one. It makes sense. If something is working well, we simply use that item or process and keep going. It is the bad designs that take up our time as we try to fix or amend them. The same thing goes for pre-employment screening.

Good design or a good employee will not produce much comment. It is the bad design or the bad employee that you will hear about. That is when you will truly know what the background check experts have done. When you find the one bad seed in the mix, which is when the pre-employment screening will produce multiple red flags in their background check. You will then have the confidence that the background check experts really are doing a thorough job for you.

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I will grudgingly admit that I was duped. I had an acquaintance one time that was completely different than what I had first believed her to be. It was one of the few times that I wish I could have conducted pre-employment screening for someone in my personal life.

I had made a new friend who was introduced through mutual acquaintances. She had moved several times over the years that should have been my first clue to dig a little deeper. She bounced around from laborer job to laborer job.

This should have been a red flag because these are jobs that typically do not conduct employee background checks.

She was my friend so I didn’t question it much, and neither did anyone else.

What I did start to notice was that she started to drink more and more frequently. Over the next few months, she began drinking so much that she lost her job, her car, and most of her friends. As it turned out, she had always had a drinking problem. She also had several run-ins with the law which was a direct result of the drinking.

All of which she tried to hide by moving frequently and sticking to jobs that didn’t conduct employee background checks.

The last I saw her, she was moving again to a different state. I shudder to think of the mistake her next employer will make. If her closest friends didn’t know the truth, her boss surely won’t stand a chance.

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I used to look at job applications and marvel at the lack of education for these potential candidates. I used to think that maybe it was the area, or maybe it was because of the industry. As time went on, I started to notice how many more applicants seemed to not only have better educational backgrounds but also much higher degrees than what the job would require. That’s when I started pre-employment screening through a background check company.

The news reports at the height of our recession routinely would show master’s degree job hunters looking at jobs like waiting tables and retail stockers because they had been laid off and no one was hiring. For a while I used to think that the influx of highly educated applicants was a result of these lay offs. Until I started to use a background check company to run more thorough employee background checks and conduct pre-employment screening, I realized that I was not completely accurate in my assessment.

While there are more higher education applicants looking for jobs to get back on their feet, many others realized that these educational levels were now a standard. Many applicants, to stay competitive, have started to embellish or flat out lie about a degree they hold. It might be they started the degree but never finished, or are still going to school. Some are flat out lying about a school are degree program they never enrolled in. Employee background checks will sort out the fact from fiction and keep you from getting schooled in the process.

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I have found over the years, as a result of some bad hires, that I am not an expert in pre-employment screening. I am good at pre-screening employees and face-to-face interviews. But, after a few significantly bad new hire employees, I learned a very tough lesson about the importance of finding background check experts to conduct the background checks.

I am quite confident in my abilities and skill sets that have come from years of experience. I am also quite confident to know when I need to stop and ask for help. However, I am not an expert in everything. One of those things is pre-employment screening.

It is not only taking the time to read between the lines when you interview someone for a job. It comes down to two things: time and resources. Neither of which I really have as a manager and small business owner.

Background check experts have both the time and resources that most of us don’t have to really dig down below the surface and find out anything that might be hidden, undisclosed or taken place in another jurisdiction as part of the process of a background check.

They also have the time to evaluate the results that they uncover in their research. They can follow up on information that might not be readily accessible, or might require further investigation to complete the picture.

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It does not make a difference if you are conducting pre-employment screening for a new employee or background checks for a current one. The question remains the same – what are your resources compared to those of a background check company?

I would start by asking myself how much time I have to spend on this task?

The next question I would need to ask is what other commitments do I have for that same time frame. If you are like most of us, we rarely are tasked with a single item at a time. There are ongoing issues to be dealt with, reports to run or create, stores to operate and sell in… You get the idea.

So I will ask again.

What is the time frame that I am working under?

The answer is usually a very slim time frame.

I don’t have time to conduct pre-employment screening twice. As long as nothing completely egregious shows up, I will be satisfied. I am also probably only going to skim the surface of what a background check company could do.

Now let’s ask those same questions of a background check company.

How much time do they have to run those same background checks? Do they have the time and or other resources to run a more in depth check?

Can they conduct pre-employment screening a second time if there is an error, or if something didn’t show up properly?

I would safely answer yes to those questions.

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Most people who have a spotty background or work history have a way of sniffing out companies who do not run pre-employment screening, or who do not call for references. This puts those companies and stores at a higher risk for poor performance, excessive absences, and ultimately a higher risk of cash and merchandise theft.

As a retail security manager, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the best companies out there. I have also had the misfortune of working with some of the worst, especially when it comes to pre-employment screening. It’s not that these companies were bad, it was more about the resources they had available to them and to their employees for conducting the pre-employment screening.

I noticed a significant difference in several areas depending on how thorough of an employee background check the company did. One of the biggest areas of difference was in turnover rates. The companies who spent the time and resources to run a better check ended up with employees who seemed to stay longer.

Their retention wasn’t centered on the employees’ happiness; it was more specifically about the termination rate by management of their poor performing employees.

I also noticed that there was a higher rate of inventory discrepancies and unexplained cash shortages in those stores and companies that did not conduct thorough employee background checks.

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When applying for a new job, you may be leaving a lot to chance with your potential new employer. My brother recently found this out when he applied for a new job after his recent graduation from college. It all started with a background check. More specifically, it started with a criminal background check that had gone awry.

His potential employer had not used reputable background check experts to perform pre-employment screenings. In fact, they didn’t use background check experts at all. They used an in-house program to search through the internet databases to get their criminal background check results.

Well, his background check turned up criminal hits from a state he had never even visited. Because of this, he had received communication from the employer that his job offer was being rescinded due to the results. 

After much discussion and secondary verification, luckily the problem was solved. When they ran the criminal background check, they had only used his name and date of birth. There was a match to someone meeting these very limited search qualifications, and thus the problem started. After they used additional information for a background check like his driver’s license and social security number (and matching up his photo id to the mug shot on file) they were able to verify who my brother really was, and who he was not.

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Whenever I try using a search engine to find background checks on someone, I am usually bombarded with online ads. These ads want to charge me money for personal information on an individual. There is usually some sort of teaser about how many results are found, and how many types of records there are – birth, divorce, arrest, death, etc.

I am always tempted to try them, that is, until logic sinks in. If there are so many search results, how will I know that what I am paying for is the right person’s pre-employment screening? What if I pay the fees for access and I can’t really find accurate or timely information on the person I am trying to research?

Going with some cheap online company, I might pay a small amount, but if it isn’t the right person, then I will be left with paying more to get the right information on the right person. It would not only be a waste of my money, but also my time.

I usually leave the website and go back to plan A – using a reputable company for my background checks. Sure they might charge more up front, but I know that they are providing solid, accurate information for my employee background checks, that I can use to make good hiring decisions.

I only want to run an employee background check one time. I don’t want to have to worry about getting the wrong information because the internet gave me the wrong person.

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I ran into an interesting situation the other day involving employee background checks.

We had an associate found guilty of employee theft. It was a pretty open and shut case. We followed our company procedures to the letter, and the end result was that we terminated this employee. She was not prosecuted, but we did require restitution to be paid to us to make up for the losses she incurred.

We didn’t think much else about it. In an unrelated matter, or so we thought, a few months later we were in the process of promoting one of our employees to a management position. They would have keys to the building, safe codes and alarm codes.

As per our policy, we ran a background check before the promotion was to go through. One of the points on the employee background check is address verification. The employee’s current address was different than the one we had on file from his application.

While this was not unusual in and of itself, there was more that this background check revealed. On the list of known residents of that address was our previous employee that we had terminated for theft.

Had it not been for the background check, we would never had reason to question this employee or his motives.

This is just one of the reasons why running an employee background check has different advantages and looks for different criteria than a pre-employment screening might. Because his move was recent, the pre- employment screening would not have turned up the connection with this employee.

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