Lowest Possible Denominator – Criminal Background Checks

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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