Let Me Show You How To Employment Screen

Have you been assigned to do pre employment screening for your company? Many companies don’t even do any type of employee screening and leave themselves open to unwanted employees. Your company and it employees need to be safe in their environment from individual that could harm them. Use the following tips to uncover unwanted employees.

Use an application form that provides you with enough information to get your background check started. If you don’t have the right questions on the application, you will have a hard time doing a background check. Have someone who has done background checks create your application.

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 people’s 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 don’t 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.

Now, you can do a credit check as part of the employment screening. The credit report you get will be for employment decisions and this report will be different from a financial institution looking for credit worthiness. You cannot use a standard credit report for making employment decision.

To do a Criminal History Search you need a birth date. You can not legal ask for this on your application. One way to do this search is to do it after the applicant is hired. Your hiring agreement should state that his employment status is based on passing the criminal history search.

One thing most screeners miss is getting past co-workers names and phone numbers. Usually they will get supervisor’s names but also fail to get their phone numbers. So get these names and phone numbers so that you can call and get more information on the prospective individual than would be provided by Human Resources.

Just with the information you get on the application, you can start you employment screening background check. This is why it’s 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.

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