When applying for a new job, you may be leaving a lot to chance with your potential new employer. My brother recently found this out when he applied for a new job after his recent graduation from college. It all started with a background check. More specifically, it started with a criminal background check that had gone awry.
His potential employer had not used reputable background check experts to perform pre-employment screenings. In fact, they didn’t use background check experts at all. They used an in-house program to search through the internet databases to get their criminal background check results.
Well, his background check turned up criminal hits from a state he had never even visited. Because of this, he had received communication from the employer that his job offer was being rescinded due to the results.
After much discussion and secondary verification, luckily the problem was solved. When they ran the criminal background check, they had only used his name and date of birth. There was a match to someone meeting these very limited search qualifications, and thus the problem started. After they used additional information for a background check like his driver’s license and social security number (and matching up his photo id to the mug shot on file) they were able to verify who my brother really was, and who he was not.
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