A Pre-Employment Background Check can Protect Your Company   by Stuart Nance

Background Checks are becoming more and more common as part of the hiring procedure for many companies. Employers are beginning to understand that learning as much as possible about an employee before hiring them can represent a long-term savings. Businesses that run background checks can save on time, money and institutional memory.

Saving Time – Hiring an individual who looks good on a resume, but uses fraudulent statements to get employment offers can cause businesses tremendous hassle. Not only will all the work that person does be slower and of a poor quality, but it may also cause problems with clients. A business can mistakenly hire someone for their experience in customer service, when they have lied on their resume. Then when the new hire demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of even the most basic customer service procedure, it can take more valuable managerial time to straighten out the mess. A simple Background Check With past employment verifications before making a final hiring decision would have prevented the issue entirely.

Saving Money-One of the largest losses that businesses experience can often be traced to employee theft. In-store loss can account for over 10% of lost product for larger businesses. Many larger stores have an entire department devoted to loss prevention. A background check may not prevent all of these types of issues, but it can allow an employer to weed out applicants with a prior record of theft or fraud. A background check can even let you know about civil disputes between employees and employers. This can protect you from those that bring serial lawsuits. Some people make a career out of getting hired and then starting arbitration proceedings when they are fired for poor performance. A background check can reveal that information and save an employer from expensive settlements and legal proceedings.

Institutional Memory -When a business has high turnover they lose the experience that long-term employees bring to the job. Institutional memory is difficult to maintain when employees leave quickly. Even with carefully detailed records and notes, it is difficult for employees to read all of that information and remember prior decisions. Without someone that can provide the information a business can wind up repeating the same mistakes. Employees that readily agree to a background check are more committed to accepting employment and more likely to stay longer.

Employers that do pre-employment screening on people they intend to offer positions, can protect their company from theft, keep institutional memory longer by reducing turnover, and save the time that would be spent cleaning up after unsuitable employees. Background Check Services are reasonable priced and often available for a moderate fee, even if you only need one right now. Don’t put your company at risk when a simple online background check can prevent it.

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