The 4 Secrets Of Employment Screening |
| This article, The 4 Secrets Of Employment Screening, was written by Rudy Silva on August 06, 2009 02:11:07 AM |
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| Category: Business: Employment |
| Have you been assigned to do pre employment screening for your company?�Many companies don’t even do any type of employee screening and leave themselves open to unwanted employees.�Your company and it employees need to be safe in their environment from individual that could harm them.�Use the following tips to uncover unwanted employees.�Start with a good application form.�This form should be designed by someone knowledgeable in background checks.�It is this form that will give you your start in background checking.�You need the right applicant’s answers before starting your screening.�The first thing you need to do is a Social Security Check.�This is a powerful employment screening tactic.�Order this check to authenticate the applicant’s Social Security.�This check can reveal all past addresses and aliases.�Many people steal other people’s Social Security number.�Now you can start the employment criminal background check.�And at the same time you can check the person driving record.�These two searches will reveal more about a person’s integrity and honesty.�After you have gathered the information from the Social, Criminal, and Driving Records compare it to the application filled out by the individual.�If some things don’t match, then you should talk to the individual and ask why the difference.�Many times they will not remember that they had made some changes in their past with names or addresses.�The next thing to do is a pre-employment credit check.�This part of the employment screening is where you look at credit report, which is not the typical credit report.�You are not allowed by law to see their actual credit report with all of their financial data.�You will see their report with many items blanked out.��To do a Criminal History Search you need a birth date.�You can not legal ask for this on your application.�One way to do this search is to do it after the applicant is hired.�Your hiring agreement should state that his employment status is based on passing the criminal history search.�One thing most screeners miss is getting past co-workers names and phone numbers.�Usually they will get supervisor’s names but also fail to get their phone numbers.�So get these names and phone numbers so that you can call and get more information on the prospective individual than would be provided by Human Resources.�There you have it a good outline to start your employment screening.�You first start with a good application form.�Move on to do the Social Security check and then do a driver’s license and employment criminal background check.�End with a credit check.�If you want more screening consider using a pre employment screening services. |
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