How to Design Background Check Diligently

It is common for applicants to be requested to conduct Live Scan, Los Angeles as a part of the employment process.

The rise in the rates of unscrupulousness and fraud has forced employers to design an effective background screening process to vet prospective employees in a bid to ensure workplace and employee safety.  As the screening process is an insight into the applicant’s past, it must be designed diligently in a way that imparts all the required information.

 

Designing the Background Check Process

So, here’s everything employers need to know while designing the best background screening process for their company.

• Fingerprint based background check reveals the criminal history of an applicant. Fingerprints captured at the Live Scan center are electronically transmitted to the FBI where they are screened with the innumerable prints present in the database. All arrests and convictions at the state and federal level are recorded here. However, this verification is not complete. A thorough background check requires an insight into the sex offender’s registry, driving records, credit history and more so. Employers include the required procedures depending on the information required.
  

• Background check is different from reference check. Reference check with past employers provides information about the person’s behavior, attitude towards work etc from the past employer. However, verification of other information like criminal past, education credentials is not possible. Background check is required for this information.

• In a bid to get their dream job, applicants often make fake resumes listing qualifications and credentials that are required for the job, irrespective of the fact whether they are truly done by them or not. Hiring without background check of this information can result in a wrong hire, where the person hired is not fit for the job. Well, this information can be verified with a proper background check process in place.

• Social media searches are not considered background checks. Undoubtedly, social media is capable of helping employers know the candidate better. However, social media reveals only that information that the candidate intends to disclose. Contrarily, background check reveals all the information about the candidate. So, running a search on social media cannot be substituted for a well planned background check process.
  

• Employers often believe that conducting an employment history check is capable of revealing all important details about the employee. As the previous employer has experience working with that candidate, it can be helpful. However, it is not as simple as it seems. Employers are often skeptical whether the legal system allows them to disclose all the information about their past employee. Moreover, a previous employer’s information is limited to what he or she has noticed about the employee. Running a background check is certainly better as it reveals the complete information about the applicant.

• Employers cannot run a background check without the candidate’s permission. The law requires employers to take the permission for background check and conduct only is agreed upon.

So, background check when planned diligently gives a crystal clear picture of the applicant, thereby making hiring decisions easy and better. Anshin Mobile Notary & Live Scan provides the best live scan and notary services. Employers can employ their services for fingerprinting as a part of the employment process.

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