When you need to fill an open position, you understand that you are short someone to do the required job functions. That means someone else needs to pick up the slack. If you are the one left picking up the pieces, do you reasonably have time to sift though hundreds of under qualified, or outright bad applicants?
What many companies are doing to reduce the number of unwanted applications to sort through is to include intent to perform a background check. Somewhere on the application, whether it is computerized or on paper, there is wording stating that the job requires a through check to be conducted before final approval to be hired. Next is a signature line for the applicant to authorize the check to be completed.
What major hiring companies and managers are finding is that questionable applicants are declining to turn in these applications. They know that they have potential red flags in their history that they do not want to come up. Instead of completing the application, they move on to the next business that does not require a background check.
In the meantime, you are left with fewer overall applications to sort through. Of those remaining applications, you are left with better overall applicants. They are more honest about any previous criminal activity, previous work history, and can actually validate their education and degrees earned. Your valuable time is spent on hiring the right person, not on weeding out the wrong ones.
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