We all have a comfort zone. It starts at our house. That is where we can kick back, relax and be ourselves. We create our own little environments perfectly suited to our desires and tastes.

Once we have our home territory in satisfactory mental comfort, we start to move on. We have secondary territories that turn out to be an extension of our homes. These are places like a familiar restaurant, a good friend or even a relative’s home, or our workplaces where we start to settle in and start to create those same comfort zones.

This is when I often start to hear important pieces of information regarding my associates. They get comfortable at work, just like they do at home, and they start to talk. They discuss their relationships, finances, and off the record shenanigans.

It has been more than once that I have opened up employee theft investigations based off of information spilled in the comforts of the employee break room. Sadly, some of those suspicions were substantiated.

I don’t always get to see the full extent of the background checks that were run before they were hired on to the company. I do get to see them after the case is starting to come to a close.

Because we don’t hire background check experts to review the background checks, some of the potential red flags that I do see had gone unnoticed.

Maybe the background check experts would have caught onto a detail we overlooked, and would have prevented us from hiring that person who ended u stealing from us.

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Do you have a best friend at work? For many employees out there, they do. It is someone who they joke and kid around with at work. They can vent about how they had a bad day, and the at work friend understands because they know the environment and the people in the story.

While some people do take these friendships to the next level and gather outside of the workplace, many companies do prohibit fraternization on any sort of level. At work friends, when kept at work, are an important part of employee morale so they are not limited.

The question is, do we really know our at work friends? Do we really know that person and what they are capable of if we only see them in a certain light or environment?

This is where employee background checks come into play. No matter how well you might think you know one of your employees, if you only see them on the job, you are probably not fully aware of any issues they might be having outside of work.

Employee background checks can uncover financial and criminal histories that may have begun since the employee was hired.

It is always disheartening for employees to find out that their at work buddy was caught stealing, or was terminated for drug or alcohol usage on the job. A background check might get you closer to that employee, so you really know what they are all about.

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Forget about your potential employees’ qualifications for a moment. Think about what are your qualifications, or what are the qualifications of your HR managers?

Very few people are qualified to be background check experts. It’s not that it is difficult, it is because it is a time consuming qualification that very few people have put in the hours to prefect.

Being a background check expert means more than just filling out a few forms on the computer and hitting enter. It is about utilizing resources, analyzing reports, and being adept at asking the right questions to personal and professional references.

I personally rely on the knowledge and experience of experts. I am aware that I cannot be an expert in every subject that could ever possibly arise.

I need to be able to have a broad understanding of the process and what to look for, for potential red flags, but the bulk of the pre employment screening as well as the employee background checks for existing employees should be sent out to a true background check expert.

These experts will also have a keen working knowledge of the legalities involved in running these pre employment screenings and employee background checks.

My qualifications do not cover background checks. My HR manager is more qualified than I am, but she still is not an expert in background checks.

It is time to let the professionals be the experts and have them run background checks completely and thoroughly.

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Getting all of the answers you need to hire a legitimately qualified candidate can be difficult. Standard job applications only cover basics of position applied for, availability, and previous work and education history.

Resumes are little better, they might be more descriptive as to what an applicant does or did at their previous places of employment, but they can also carry a web of deceit.

The reality is, without running a background check to verify information, who knows how much embellishment is actually on those pieces of paper.

Background checks sometimes are limited to what they can uncover. For example, some employers will only release the dates that an employee worked for their company. They may not give a reason why.

That leaves it up to the applicant to decide to tell the complete truth as to why they no longer are working for that company.

A background check expert will be more versed in uncovering the truth. They can call upon an applicant’s personal and professional references.

Did you know that often time references are not aware that they have been listed on an application? They also may not know exactly what they should and shouldn’t say about someone, and may give more information than they should.

A background check expert also knows how to ask other non-work related questions to get the answers you really need. Want to really know what a reference thinks? Ask them if they would let the applicant house sit or baby sit for them. Their answers might be very telling of what kind of work they will do for you.

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Employee background checks are a crucial step in the hiring process. Taking extra precautions now can prevent theft in the future. Working as an LP detective, I once received a tip from a manager that one of his associates had friends visit him and shop in the store often. It also turned out that the associate’s register consistently turned up short.

I decided to work a case on this associate. Over several weeks I watched him and built my case. One evening, his friend came to visit. They shopped around the store, selecting merchandise from his department. The friend ended up with six shirts and three jeans.

At the register, the associate rang the friend for one shirt and one pair of jeans but bagged the other seven unpaid for items. The associate walked his friend to the exit where my fellow detective was waiting.

Needless to say, we pulled both suspects into the LP office and notified the police. When they arrived, they ran the associate in their system to check for priors. The associate carried an alias which was linked to two charges of robbery. He had a bench warrant out for his arrest.

We estimated a total of $2,000 in register shortage over his six months of employment. We never obtained a cash theft admission from him, but the shortage ended after his termination.

This entire situation could have been avoided during pre-employment screening and background checks. $2,000 of cash and an unknown amount of merchandise theft would have never occurred if criminal background checks had been implemented by a background check company.

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There are a lot of things that I know. Some of them came from formal education. Some things came from on the job training. Other things that I know came from real life experience. I think that makes me a better, well-rounded person.

What is does not make me is an expert.

As much as I would love to say that I am an expert in everything, simply put, I am not. Realistically, no one can be. That’s why we hire out certain tasks to experts in their fields. Background check experts are a great example.

I know the basics of what a background check does. I know why background checks are important to my business. I have absolutely no idea how to even begin running and researching background checks.

This is where background check experts come into play. They know what to do and how to do it. They are well versed in the legal pieces of what they can and cannot ask. They also know what information legally cannot be obtained.

Background check experts also have the time to devote to the process. All they do is run background checks. I have a billion things going on, and even more piling up on my desk as we speak.

I am not an expert, but this time, I don’t have to be. I can concentrate on my work and let the background check expert’s focus on theirs.

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There are many ways to conduct an employee job interview. I have seen most of them at some point. I am even a little bit embarrassed to say that during my early days as a manager, I was guilty of conducting some pretty shoddy interviews that left me with some pretty questionable employees.

Once I started in security management, I was not oblivious to the usefulness of a stress interview. We would conduct them with cases of employee dishonesty. It went a little something like this:

There were two of us in a small room that we would turn the heat up a bit in. Yes, we knew to wear lighter clothes that day, to avoid the heat. One of us would stuff some folders with blank papers and grab some blank VCR tapes to “pad” our case files. While one of sat behind the desk, the other would pace the room, both rapidly firing out questions as we saw fit.

The result was a very quick confession, as our employee was not able to get his bearings straight. Unfortunately I know that some executives would use this same approach for job interviews, expecting a more “real” look at the candidate.

Times have progressed and with the availability of background checks, why go to this sort of trouble to hire a new employee. I saw first hand how these new hires started their jobs filled with animosity and would quickly move on to something else.

Had we simply stuck with running a background check, we may have retained those, and even better qualified candidates longer.

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A pattern is simply a repetition of images, sounds, or events that when put together create a whole picture. These pictures often give us answers to questions that we may not even know we need to be asking.

My daughter has been skipping her naps over the last few days. The first time she fell asleep in the car for about ten minutes, but when I tried to get her inside and up to bed, she woke right up. Later she fell asleep while I was holding her. Again, she woke up as I laid her in bed. Well after she had a restless night of sleep, I was able to identify the pattern as an ear infection.

While it would have been nice to catch it sooner, the first few clues meant nothing to me until I saw the full pattern emerge.

Employee theft cases are the same way. You look for any patterns you can find to identify previous acts, and obtain future thefts in progress.

What you don’t want is to forgo employee background checks that might identify criminal patterns prior to employment. If you have to wait to identify a pattern of theft before you can stop it, you have waited too long. You will never see the cash or the merchandise again.

An employee background check expedites the pattern finding process by taking into account their prior activities, whether they are criminal records, or spotty previous work history.

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I recently went on a job interview with a company that was trying to hire me for a loss prevention position. They said right from the beginning that they knew I was overqualified for the position they were offering me.

Even though they had the next level position open, they wanted me at a step down. The reason was that they like to promote from within. It was very rare that they would hire external candidates for upper level positions.

In a lot of ways, that is a very smart business move. To promote from within gives several advantages over hiring from the outside. Even with pre employment screening, some things you can’t always track, like work ethic.

Being able to watch and experience first hand how an employee responds to situations will never show up on a pre employment screening. This knowledge can help determine if a promotion is warranted based on the first hand knowledge of their skill sets.

Promoting from within is also a great motivator for your existing employees as they feel that advancement opportunities are attainable.

When a company does promote from inside its ranks, take care in conducting further employee background checks.

Just because an employee passed all of their pre employment screenings, doesn’t mean an employee background check can’t still be advantageous.

This new employee background check can screen for any negative events that may have happened since their start date. It is also a chance to screen for things that may not have been needed before. Think about if the promotion will give the employee access to restricted files, cash or other assets, or even a new set of potentially liable situations.

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Pre employment screening is a useful tool in today’s economy. There are so many applicants vying for each position. How do you determine just by looking on paper who you want to spend your time hiring? Background check experts can help.

A reputable Background Check Company can ease the stress associated with finding the right candidate for a position through Pre Employment Screening. Running a thorough background check will give insight into information that is often not found on the generic application often used for an open position. It can include a criminal background check and a credit check.

Wouldn’t it be nice to know if that felony was for theft, or assault instead of a DUI or a traffic violation? How about the applicant who doesn’t have any bankruptcies or foreclosures, but still has a mountain of debt they can’t realistically repay on the salary you are providing? These are just two of the more common types of background checks that a good Background Check company can run.

While employee background checks are not a replacement for an actual question and answer interview, they do provide a “heads up” to potential questions that should be asked. Pre employment screening performed by background check experts will help weed out the applicants that you probably don’t even want to waste your valuable time with.

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