How Necessary Are Pre-Employment Background Checks?

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How Necessary Are Pre-Employment Background
Checks?
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• If youre the owner of a small business, you may
  have asked yourself whether conducting
  pre-employment background on potential employees
  is worth the extra time and cost and may have
  wondered how much difference they can really
  make.
• If your business is important to you, however
  and one would assume that it is then you should
  be aware that conducting background checks can
  present you with a host of advantages, such as

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• Enabling you to hire candidates with the best
  qualifications for the job
• The very fact that your business has a
  pre-employment screening process in place should
  help to discourage applicants who may have been
  considering applying for the position, who were
  perhaps not qualified or may have had a previous
  negative employment history. Many resumes are
  found to contain false or misleading information
  about the applicant, and so conducting a
  background check can help to verify their details
  before you even consider them for interview.

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• Such checks can also help to ensure that only
  those candidates who are qualified for the
  position, are considered, reducing the risk of
  having to end the individuals contract when it
  later becomes apparent that they are not
  suitable, not to mention the associated expenses
  with having to begin searching for their
  replacement.
• Helping you to eliminate or reduce employee
  turnover
• Pre-employment screening checks can help you hire
  the right person for the job, meaning that if
  they are qualified and have the right attitude
  etc, they are more likely to become a long-term
  employee and become loyal to your business. This
  in turn, reduces the cost and stresses associated
  with a high turnover of staff.

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• Minimizing the risk of claims stating negligent
  hiring
• Some businesses may avoid claims of negligent
  hiring by conducting consistent pre-employment
  background checks for candidates and following up
  with conditional employment offers prior to them
  commencing work for the business. Negligent
  hiring claims can tarnish a businesses reputation
  and end up costing them a lot of money in
  litigation costs.
• What types of pre-employment background checks
  are available?
• There are in fact, a wide range of background
  checks that as an employer, you can use to obtain
  information about a job candidate, and some of
  these include

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• Motor vehicle reports
• National criminal search
• National sex offender search
• The terrorist watch list
• However, as an employer its important to be
  aware that mandated federal guidance from the
  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and
  state laws, may have an impact upon what
  pre-employment screening or credit checks you are
  permitted to undertake. Checking for guidance
  from a professional company who specialise in
  this kind of information, is highly recommended
  if you are to stay on the right side of the law
  while recruiting employees for your business.

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• Pre-employment background checks are now
  considered to be a vital element of the
  recruitment process and can benefit your company
  in a host of ways.
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