Customers are very in tune with how employees act and interact. Often, our customers see and understand more about our employee’s behavior than what we ever will. They see them at their best and also at their worst. Your customers see the actions of our employees when we are not there. When we bypass pre employment screening, we are often left with employees who believe that when the cat is away, the mice should play.

Your employees are not going to act out when we, or other managers, are there. They will act out when we are not. If we have hired employees who do not have drive, motivation or integrity, it will become most apparent the second we leave the building. Pre employment screening is a way to determine if we have hired quality employees, before we actually hire them.

Your front line defense, as it relates to your employees, is the line of communication and representation between your company and your customers. If this front line does not represent your business, as you see fit, your sales will suffer from customers who leave and will not come back.

Pre employment screening should be at the front of your hiring procedures. This will help ensure you are hiring the best to represent your business when you are not there. Without pre employment screening, you risk hiring employees who do not have integrity, motivation, or the drive to provide quality customer service in your absence.

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Pre employment screening is designed to weed out the bad hires before they get past the interviewing process. What we often overlook as hiring managers and owners is the far reaches of a bad employee. The costs that one employee can incur to your business can be potentially devastating.

In the most common ways, employee can cause inventory losses. They can steal, defraud, or simply be so oblivious to policy and procedure; they cause losses through their negligence and inattentive behaviors.

These financial implications create a tangible loss in your inventory, and an increase to your merchandise costs due to repurchasing your inventory to satisfy necessary stock levels.

The next level of damage comes in less tangible ways. A bad apple employee can create devastating issue with morale. The worse your employees feel, the less productive they become, and the more they turn off customers who will go some place else to shop.

Once it starts, it is difficult and can sometimes take years or massive employee turnover to remedy. Costing you money in lost sales and increased training costs for rehires. It also takes away your productive time as you are spending more time dealing with employee issues.

Are you innovative or have proprietary advantages? Don’t think you are invulnerable to this sort of attack. Restaurants that have a “secret sauce” have had employees steal the recipe so they can copy it or sell it for their own profit eliminating the proprietary advantage the company once had.

Understanding that these employees can ultimately ruin a business beyond repair puts a pre employment screening in perspective from a financial viewpoint.

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You might assume that an employee caught stealing from their previous employer will automatically appear on pre employment screening. 

This is not always the case. An employee must be given the chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. If they are convicted and found guilty by those courts, then- and only then- will their crimes be committed to public record.

If you have hired background check experts to execute your initial employee background checks, you are assuming that they will be able to track down every little tidbit of information that they can.

For the most part, you are right. No matter how thorough the background check experts are, they can only discover so much, based on which reports they are searching.

If it is a rather egregious offense, the basic employee background checks should discover them. However, there are lesser offenses that are just as criminal, but do not show up on pre employment screening. If a company does not prosecute- for whatever reason- an employee’s misdoings will not become public record, therefore not appearing on employee background checks.

This is when background check experts must then do additional employment verifications or search agencies that document employee theft cases. They may charge an additional cost to potential employers to do these additional searches. Depending on the quality of the employees you hire on a regular basis, this may end up being money well spent- compared to hiring a known thief.

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Did you know that employee background checks must be from a certified Credit Reporting Agency? It didn’t used to be that way. In the not so distant past, your employee background checks could come from any information source you could find.

It used to be pretty simple. All you had to do was go to any number of websites for your pre employment screening. The problem that was discovered was the accuracy of the credit report. As more job seekers were denied employment due to these inaccuracies, it eventually turned into a legal issue. Employers were relying on bad information to make decisions. Job seekers had little recourse, as these websites were unwilling to correct the issues or to work to resolve them between the employer and job seeker.

The end result is that legislation was passed to protect both parties. By limiting the companies who could give a report to an employer, quality standards were put into place. The employers are now guaranteed to have more accurate information. Job seekers are given an opportunity to correct any incorrect information found on a report and then have that information passed back to the employer.

Job seekers must also give permission to have these employee background checks conducted. This serves a two-fold purpose: job seekers must be aware of the checks to be conducted, and therefore have an opportunity to be honest and forthcoming about any potential information that will be discovered.

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We usually think of the big three credit reporting agencies when running pre employment screening, primarily because that is where we will find major defaults like foreclosures and public judgments. While these reports will give us a good insight into an applicant’s spending/ lifestyle habits, there are often other underlying issues that might not be made apparent in such a report.

What you might not know is that there are several other consumer-reporting agencies that can be used to conduct other kinds of background checks. These other agencies are actually fairly diverse in the information the collect. Because of that wide range, you (as a hiring manager or owner) you have a better understanding of the applicant as a whole, not just what incidents appear on a credit report.

For example, you can do a pre employment screening that revolves around their check writing habits. Even though it is not as commonplace as what it might have once been, some people will still write checks, especially if they are floating their own personal loan.

A bad check will not show up on one of the big three’s reports unless it goes past the point of collections. A check verification system will show if the checks are being written in the first place.

You can also find employment verification services too. These are certified agencies that track employment dates and sometimes the reason why an employee was terminated- particularly useful for employee theft cases that were not prosecuted.

The list of alternative reports goes on to include many different areas that, as an employer, is worth looking into during the background checks.

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While it is becoming more of a standard practice to conduct background checks prior to offering a job candidate an offer, there can still be mixed feelings from the applicant.

Some job applicants can perceive background checks as the precursor to being micro managed or watched once they actually begin to work at your store or company. That can make a difference in some of the applicants who would apply for a job opening. Not every applicant who wants to avoid pre-employment screening does so because they have something to hide. Sometimes they just want to ensure their drive and innovation will be put to good use and not squelched under a barrage of regulations and managerial control.

If you need those types of creative and innovative employees, you do not want them turned off before they are even hired.

That being said, the solution is not in forgoing background checks. The answer is in properly explaining the advantages that the employee will benefit from.

The number one benefit is safety. You (as the employer) are doing everything you can to provide a safe working environment. By eliminating employees with past criminal offenses that include violence or theft, you are securing the workplace for your employees.

Secondly, by verifying pervious work experience, your employees have a better chance of working beside other employees who actually know what they say they do. One of the biggest workplace complaints is that co-workers are inept. If they had lied on their resume to get a job they were unqualified for, they will eventually show their deficit in their job performance.

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Finding a background check company can be a daunting task. You need to find one that is competent and legitimate. Faced with a barrage of information, both good and bad, can make it even harder to determine which one to pick.

It is important to conduct pre-employment screening to find the best-qualified applicant for your open jobs. When you have a background check company to do the digging, you will have more thorough checks completed.

One of the first things to look at is price. Each background check company will have a set of pricing guidelines. Even though you might be tempted to go with the lowest price company, you might not be getting everything you are expecting to have.

There is usually a reason why the price is so low. They may not verify information through a legitimate credit-reporting agency. That can put you into potential legal problems down the road. If they give you bad information that causes you to decline an applicant, you are the one that will ultimately be held responsible. An applicant has a legal recourse as they can verify and dispute this information.

The price might also be low because the company itself is a scam. They might want to steal personal information for their own usage. By keeping a low price, they are attempting to lure in unsuspecting customers who will hand over applicants’ information without question.

Finding a low price can be a warning that further investigation on your part is needed.

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In order to conduct a realistic cost / benefit analysis of conducting background checks, you need to be able to anticipate both the short and long term costs. In this situation, the comparison would be between the immediate or short-term cost of paying for pre-employment screening to be conducted, and the long-term cost associated with not running background checks.

The short-term cost of background checks is going to come from the thoroughness of the check. Will you hire a background check company to conduct your pre-employment screening, or will you do it yourself? If you hire a background check company, chances are they can investigate more areas than you can yourself. They may charge a flat fee per month, or they may charge per check depending on the frequency of your hiring needs.

The long-term costs to consider if you are not running background checks is the impact of higher turnover rates. If you do not weed out the bad seeds up front, how much will you pay for their initial training and later on for training their replacement? What about your potential inventory or cash losses created from hiring a career criminal? Not every employer prosecutes for theft, even though they terminate employees for it.

Only you can analyze your known data and speculate the rest with any degree of accuracy. Most companies find out that background checks eventually balance out the cost of a single bad hire. Unfortunately, most of those companies figure it out only after a major case of employee theft has surfaced.

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Many hiring managers look at a few very important things when they review applications. They look to see if this is someone with the skill set required for the position. They look to see if this is someone that might have some longevity with their company; reducing turnover costs. They look to see if this is someone who can pass the required criminal background checks included in their pre-employment screening.

All of those things are important to a hiring manager. As a small business owner, we actually are the hiring managers. There is rarely payroll for someone other than us to be a hiring manager. As such, we need to determine what our end game is going to be for this employee.

As much as we hate to admit it, sometimes we simply hire someone to be a warm body in our stores. That means we never really expect much out of them and when they quit unexpectedly, well, we are not surprised. We didn’t hire to make our store better. We simply hired to have someone with a name badge on in our store.

These are the decisions that get us into trouble. When we don’t expect the best, we get disposable employees who may or may not pass more in depth criminal background checks.

The end game is not for longevity. Unfortunately, these are the employees who will cost us so much more than we realize. They will be the ones who steal, give poor service, and cost us more money, as we have to start the hiring and training process over again in such a short span of time.

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Once upon a time, I had an employee. He was very good at certain aspects of his job. However, he was prone to drama in his life. Anytime the drama struck, his job performance would falter. Since his pre-employment screening did not show his weakness for personal drama, we hired him based solely on his job application.

Fast forward many years later. My husband received an application for one of his stores. The applicant seemed qualified on paper, so my husband had a phone interview with him. It was only after asking some questions, did it come out that this applicant may have worked under one of my friends supervision at a previous job.

When my husband asked me if she might know him, I actually said yes, and that I was also one of his previous supervisors. It’s a small retail world after all. Well, even though I knew I could not say much about his personal downfalls, I could speak to the position he held at my place of employment.

My friend also confirmed his position with her company. The interesting thing was that this applicant worked in a very different capacity than the job he was applying for.

This, unfortunately, is not uncommon; an applicant omitting details of their work history to seem like they have more relevant experience than what they really do. It was only by chance that my husband asked the right questions to get more information. Had he only relied on the information provided on the application, his pre employment screening would not have given him the information he needed to make an informed decision.

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