Screen Smart and WIN

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Screen Smart and WIN!
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What will we learn today?

• Are you at risk?
• Permissible Purpose, Due Diligence and
  Consistency
• Types of Searches
• Hiring Game

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Dont Think Your School is at Risk?

• This organization has 500 employees
• 3 Have done time for assault
• 7 Have been arrested for fraud
• 8 Have been arrested for shoplifting
• 14 Have been arrested on drug-related charges
• 19 Have been accused of writing bad checks
• 21 Are currently defendants in lawsuits
• 29 Have been accused of spousal abuse
• 71 Cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
• 84 Have been arrested for drunk-driving in the
  last year
• 117 Have directly or indirectly bankrupted at
  least 2 business
• CONGRESS

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Lets Play Jeopardy!(Or why conduct a Background
Screen)

• The Answer is 1 in 20.
  
• What is the number of applicants who falsify
  their name, Social Security Number or Drivers
  License Number to hide a conviction?
• The Answer is 6.
• What is the percent of coaches screened in the
  last year whose record shows a criminal
  conviction?
• The Answer is 33.
• What is the percent of those coaches
• with a conviction that show
• a Gross Misdemeanor or Felony?
  

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Permissible Purpose - Due Diligenceand
Consistency

• Permissible Purpose Under the FCRA for Employers
  means For employment purposes, including hiring
  and promotion decisions, where the applicant has
  given written permission.
• Due Diligence is the obligation or the duty to
  exercise reasonable care for the safety of
  others.
• Consistency - Similarly situated people should
  be treated in a similar manner

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Types of Information Searches

• Pre-employment Credit History
• Employment Verification
• Education Verification
• DMV Record Search
• Drug Testing

• Social Security Number Trace
• State Criminal Searches (MN BCA)
• County Criminal Search
• Federal Court Search
• Sex Offender Search
• National Criminal Search

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The Hiring Game

• Three Volunteers will be given 30.00
• to pay for a background screen.
• Each Volunteer will have 1 minute to
  select which products to buy.
• The Volunteer with the most money at the
  end of the game WINS!

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Sandy Bunkers Baseball AssociationPosition
Traveling Coach

• Applicant Paul M. Able
• Clean appearance speaks well
• Always lived in Minneapolis
• Well known through out the association
• Says he has no criminal record

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Lake Wobegone Girls Soccer Association
Position Coach

• Applicant Joanna K. Madre
• Mother with 3 children two in the program
• Clean appearance bubbly talk-a-tive
• Known in the community as a nice person.
• Has not volunteered in the past
• No Criminal Record

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Lake Acme Sports AlliancePosition
Bookkeeper/Administrator 5 years experience and
work well with others

• Applicant Sally B. Good
• Talks well and is well groomed on first
  impression
• 5 years bookkeeping experience at Able
  Construction
• Currently finishing college for Accounting Degree
  at University of MN
• Says she has no criminal background

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Results Of Your Hiring Decision!

• Tally your sheets to see how much you spent.
• Show me the Money!!
• What did your screen tell you???
• What didnt your screen tell you???

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Sandy Bunkers Baseball Association
and Paul M. Able

• Social Security Number Trace No AKAs But he
  lived in 2 different counties in the last three
  years.
  Gain 10 if you ordered this
• MN BCA Misdemeanor disturbing the peace
• County Criminal Search 1 Gross Misdemeanor
  Drunk and disorderly Found under a previous
  address/county Lose 10 if you
  didnt order SS.
  Lose another 10 if you
  didnt order the County Search!
• Federal Court Search No Records
• National Sex Offense Search No Records
• DMV 5 speeding records in last 2 years
  license suspended.
• Choose this - get your money back. If you did
  not - he drives too fast around a curve and
  drives his car into another coaches car. No one
  is hurt but several parents are thinking of suing
  you for lack of due diligence. Lose all of your
  money.
• Drug Test Clean

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Lake Wobegone Girls Soccer Association
and Joanna K. Madre

• Social Security Number Trace AKA Joanna Punch
• MN BCA No Record
• County Criminal Search - Misdemeanor assault,
  Petty Misdemeanor -
  Disturbing the peace
• Choose this get all money back! If you did
  not choose this She picks a fight with another
  Mom outside in the rain and they have a huge
  brawl on School grounds. A mud fight breaks out
  costing over 3,000 to clean up. Lose all of your
  money!
• Federal Court Search No Records
• National Sex Offender Search No Records
• DMV No Records
• Drug Test - Clean

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Lake Acme Sports Allianceand Sally B. Good

• Social Security Trace Plus AKA Sally Bezler
• MN BCA No Records
• County Criminal Search 1 Petty Misdemeanor
  writing a bad check If you did not order this
  lose 10.
• District Court Search No Records
• National Sex Offender Search No Records
• Pre-employment Credit Report - 87,400 in past
  due debt, 3 Store Credit cards in collection, 9
  accounts 90 days past due or more.
• Choose this - get all your money back! If you
  did not choose this, Sally embezzles 10,800 over
  two years by falsifying invoices and she is taken
  out in handcuffs by the Feds and your reputation
  is ruined!
• Employment, Education clean
• DMV Clean - NA
• Drug Testing - Clean

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Summary

• And the Winner is?!!.
• Understand the scope and limitations of different
  screening products
• Cost is only important when you dont have a
  problem
• Screen SMART!

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Screen Smart and Everyone WINS!