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Background Checks Aid Employee Selection
Anyone who works for a business has stories to tell about candidates and background checking. I once called a potential employee’s first reference and found he had given me his wife as a reference. When I asked him what he was thinking, he replied that he had talked with his wife the night before his interview about whom he should use as references. She told him to pick people who liked him and would say nice things about him. Who better, he asked me. Hmm.
On another occasion, I audited a client’s hiring process and found they were not doing background checks. At the same time, they were experiencing huge product losses due to employee theft. Long story – short, but they were eventually able to fire several people for theft and several others for different reasons including attendance.
In the most astonishing example of hiring without a background check that I have experienced, they had hired an employee who was recently released from prison. He served time for arson and part of his sentence was to make restitution to the building owner of $100,000. Guess who was stealing products to pay his debt. Yup, you guessed it.
Background checks are a critical component, if not the most important component, of your hiring process. Our guest author, Joshua Levy (pictured) talks about five significant issues in background checks. You’ll want to take a look.
What have you experienced doing background checks? Have a good story? Please share.
On another occasion, I audited a client’s hiring process and found they were not doing background checks. At the same time, they were experiencing huge product losses due to employee theft. Long story – short, but they were eventually able to fire several people for theft and several others for different reasons including attendance.
In the most astonishing example of hiring without a background check that I have experienced, they had hired an employee who was recently released from prison. He served time for arson and part of his sentence was to make restitution to the building owner of $100,000. Guess who was stealing products to pay his debt. Yup, you guessed it.
Background checks are a critical component, if not the most important component, of your hiring process. Our guest author, Joshua Levy (pictured) talks about five significant issues in background checks. You’ll want to take a look.
What have you experienced doing background checks? Have a good story? Please share.
