What are the benefits to Employers from conducting Employment screening Programs?
In today’s job market, it can often benefit an employer to get a fuller picture of the employee they have in consideration for a position. The reality about job applications is that they provided a bare amount of information to the prospective employer. So, how can an employer get more information on this candidate?
A solution might be to run a background check, which would include the places they lived in, the schools they attended, and any lawsuits they might have been involved in. Depending on the kind of position they are seeking to getting hired for; this information when matched against the job application, will give the hiring manager, a sense of their veracity. Plus, do you as a company want to have a criminal working for you? Or, for that matter a person who is unreliable with money, even if the position they are interested in has nothing directly have to do with money.
It is very important for employers to be able to trust their employees. You should never completely trust anyone’s word when they fill out an application. People tend to tell you what they want you to believe. Sending the application to a background check company checks out the truth about the applicant.
Employers need to verify the responses that the job applicants has given them. People have the tendency to minimize the amount of information they choose to give prospective employers. Today there are more applicants for each job than there are jobs. It is a selective job market, whereby the employers have their pick of the employees . There are those employees who do not want to share too much information with their prospective employers. They are fearful that somehow their confidentiality will be compromised. Confidentiality is a right that candidates have in their expectations from the companies they interview with. They need to feel secure that their personal information will not be violated.
In summary here are the ways that a background check protects the employer from unscrupulous employees.
How a background check help the prospective employer?
- Gives them more information to make informed decisions on prospective employees
- May prevent employee embezzlement of funds
- Gives employers a better picture of the candidate they are considering for employment and how they stack up against other candidates
- Helps the HR department make an informed employment decisions
- Increases the possibility of a reliable workforce
- Provides the employer with a pool of qualified applicants from which they can hire the best candidate from.
Employers are looking for the “best fit” from the prospective employees that have applied to their companies for employment. The above items can help the employer to achieve this outcome. There are no guarantees in the job market, but doing a background and credit check should minimize the amount of problems the employers could have with these new employees.