Do A Background Check Before Hiring A New Employee

Do you need to find information on people before you hire them

? Before the advance of modern-day search technology, there were paid services that performed background checks on employees for employers. Those fees ranged anywhere from $50-$500 depending on the details the employer required to know about the prospective employee. Additionally, the service could take anywhere from several days to several weeks to complete. This of course may the process of hiring cumbersome when background checks were required.

But today things have changed. Employers can now access the Internet and within a few minutes usually find out information in great detail about a prospective employee. Although there are paid services available today online to find people and to also do these background checks in depth, many times an employer can do a simple search for the persons name and city and locate information about that person that automatically takes them out of the running for the job.

For example, many people are not very careful about the things they put on the social media website pages. A prospective employer can do a simple search for the persons name and city and often locate information that person has posted on their social website pages which would automatically throw them out of the running for the job. It is amazing what some people will post on those sites. By the way, one rule of thumb that everyone should follow, is that you never post anything on a social media website you do not want everyone in the world to know about. Even if your site is kept relatively private and you only approve certain people to view certain information, there are still methods and ways that people can sneak in the back door by using aliases and get approved as a friend or follower.

If the job is sensitive in nature, a simple background check done for free using the major search engines may not be enough. If the initial search doesn't turn up anything negative about the person, it may be then time to hire an online service to do a more in-depth check of the prospect. Be sure you understand the site's terms of service before hiring them to do the checking. You want to make sure that your credit card will not be charged unless there is in fact a successful Akram check performed on that specific person you are looking for. In most cases, these services will not charge a fee unless they are able to find information about that exact person and provided to you.

by: Steve Weber

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