subject: Pre Employment Background Screening Hot Tips [print this page] Are you in charge of hiring new employees? Do you know how to do a proper employment screening? Can you do a background check that will eliminate those employees that have some detrimental past activities that could harm your company? Here are some tips for you to use in your background checking.
Start with a good application form. This form should be designed by someone knowledgeable in background checks. It is this form that will give you your start in background checking. You need the right applicants answers before starting your screening.
Your first check is to look into the persons Social Security information. This is the starting point for your employment screening check. This check is done to make sure the Social Security belongs to the individual. It also gives you information on his past addresses and alias identity. Many people hide their own status by using other peoples Social Security.
Once you have new addresses or alias, you can check the employment criminal background check and driving record with the new address or new names. This gives you a more accurate picture of what the prospective employee is like.
After you have gathered the information from the Social, Criminal, and Driving Records compare it to the application filled out by the individual. If some things dont match, then you should talk to the individual and ask why the difference. Many times they will not remember that they had made some changes in their past with names or addresses.
The next thing to do is a pre-employment credit check. This part of the employment screening is where you look at credit report, which is not the typical credit report. You are not allowed by law to see their actual credit report with all of their financial data. You will see their report with many items blanked out.
If you want to do the employment criminal background check, you will need a birth date. You will not be able to get this on your initial employment application. If you decide to hire this person, you can get their birth date. Make employment contingent on them passing their criminal check.
Make sure you get past supervisor and co-worker names. You can get more information from these individuals than you can from Human Resources. The Human Resource Department can only give a limited amount of information to avoid being sued.
Just with the information you get on the application, you can start you employment screening background check. This is why its so important to have a good application form. If you use a standard application form, have it checked by an expert human resource person. Start with Social Security Check and end with a Criminal Records check.
