The Costs Of Pre-Employment Background Checks

In years past, it used to be true that doing background checks was relatively difficult and they weren't often done. Often, in this case, pre-employment screening service software was used. However, this was expensive to obtain and often not up-to-date. In short, if you wanted to, you could probably keep skeletons in the closet for years or perhaps even forever. In some cases, companies still use pre-employment screening service software.

However, now, these days, the Internet makes background checks easy and these are generally more useful than using pre-employment screening software. Many sites offer background checks, usually done for a small fee. In these cases, you have the applicant disclose personal information to you, so that you can do a search for them using their Social Security Number or other sensitive information. These types of things will typically reveal everything from financial status to criminal record, bad debts, and the like. In most cases, legitimate candidates will have no trouble revealing their personal information to you. In fact, if a candidate should not wish to disclose his or her personal information to you, that may, in fact, be a red flag that he or she has something to hide.

In addition, should you so choose, even a simple search engines search will reveal interesting information about your prospective candidate. For instance, simply typing in a candidate's name and perhaps university affiliation from student days may bring up personal information, such as personal profile pages on several popular web sites. In this case, sometimes, these profile pages can reveal information that, while something the candidate obviously doesn't care "casual" acquaintances know about, since he or she posted it, it's obviously something the candidate wouldn't want a prospective employer to know about. For instance, you might type in your candidate's name and college affiliation, hit ?enter? and find that they have a personal profile page where they list their favorite activity as "drinking and passing out," for example. Of course, this may very make you rethink wanting to hire this candidate, since they've shown they can be irresponsible in their personal lives.

Again, although pre-employment screening service software is also an option, a background check is usually both quicker and more efficient. It may cost you some money, but the process itself is quick and easy and again, it will disclose information about your candidates that you may wish to know that may make them less than desirable as employees. In addition, if a candidate has a clean background check, this, of course, makes him or her a more desirable candidate.

In sum, background checks are wonderful ways to screen prospective employees for any past behaviors that may warrant them unemployable in your business. Any criminal behavior would likely set off warnings about risks you may be taking to hire him or her for employment.

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