Small businesses number one killer is employee theft. Most cases of internal schemes can reach 100k in loss. The problem is their larger counterparts invest money for loss prevention services. The small business owners many times are unwilling to invest in such things as background checks. Having a pre-employment screening process is quite honestly the best investment a small business owner could make. Merely perusing a resume and calling a few previous employers who will only verify the fact that they worked at that place of business is better than nothing at all. As a loss prevention consultant I have seen the ravages internal theft can cause. Usually when trying to sort out the “who what, where and why” the first thing I can point to is the fact that no employee background checks or criminal background checks were conducted.
One particular case which stands out from the past is a female small business owner who ran a flower shop. She never gave loss prevention a thought let alone contacting a background check company to inquire about pre-employment screening. Her thoughts regarding loss prevention never made it past having a lock on the door and keeping the register drawer shut. She had contacted me due to the fact that each month she was coming up short on both money and stock and that after checking for clerical errors she could not find the problem.
When I sat down with her I asked her about her employees and how she felt about employee theft. She was very adamant that her employees were very trustworthy and her friends and that thought process was out of the question. I knew this was going to be a long a painful road for both of us. I decided to contact a couple of background check experts to bring them in to discuss their past cases to give very detailed examples of how employee theft can utterly destroy a small business.
It was a truly enlightening experience for the business owner to see how a lack of background checks could impact a business in such a negative way. It did not take long for her to retain the background check company and discuss with the background check experts the most feasible criminal background checks as well as employee background checks.
The implementation of the pre-employment screening process was tedious however the business owner was very happy with the results. She runs a very successful business to which she attributes the achievements to her very strong and now vetted staff.
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