| The practice of conducting a pre employment | | | | When getting the background check done by an |
| background check is now becoming a standard | | | | outside agency, it is your duty to clearly instruct |
| operating practice with many companies and they | | | | them the limits and obligations so that there is no |
| are strictly following this to ensure that they are | | | | ambiguity. The best thing is to leave it to the |
| selecting the right candidates. Very often in the | | | | agencies themselves as they are in the business |
| past, companies have had to suffer when they | | | | and would know what to look for when |
| have not gone through this process and have | | | | conducting such background checks on |
| been defrauded by the employee. That causes a | | | | employees. However being aware and monitoring |
| lot of damage to the image of the company and | | | | the progress through daily status reports is |
| is something no company or employer wants to | | | | important so that you know you are getting the |
| attract. | | | | best results out of the agency and they are not |
| Companies in doing this process get to know | | | | doing a superficial job. |
| about the previous records of the applicant with | | | | There are online verification sites that have also |
| respect to his education, driving history, | | | | made it easy to get the authentication of a |
| employment history, whether he has been | | | | candidate in terms of some basic details pretty |
| convicted for anything and so on. By doing these | | | | easy and swift. This requires a small cost and you |
| checks, the company is taking due precautions. | | | | will have access to conduct personal history |
| Companies previously used to do the checks | | | | verifications of as many candidates as you want. |
| themselves and these checks were not very | | | | It is even possible to do the check even as a |
| detailed. With time and the fact that there are | | | | person is being interviewed and that can be the |
| now specialised agencies that can do a thorough | | | | initial screening itself. If the candidate fails on any |
| job with this process emerging, companies find it | | | | of the basic data, you need not even interview |
| easy to outsource this activity to them. Yes, it is | | | | him and this way you can save both time and |
| a costly affair but companies feel that the cost is | | | | effort. However, please remember that this |
| well worth the trouble, time and effort as it would | | | | system of online verification is pretty basic and |
| give them a clean chit of a person and they can | | | | for a more detailed check on a potential |
| go ahead with his appointment without any | | | | employee, you would need to approach a third |
| apprehension. | | | | party agency and get the report from them. |