If you’re in charge of hiring at your company, you know how much red tape there can be. A big part of it involves criminal background checks for employment.
If you cringe at the thought of doing an employee criminal background check, just remember that:
1. They’re routine
Just about any job – from CEO to entry-level – requires some sort of preemployment screening. In today’s world, job applicants are used to going through criminal background checks for employment. In fact, if you DON’T do one, people would probably find it strange!
As a result, no one’s going to be offended when you ask them to consent to an employee criminal background check. And, if someone is offended, it’s probably because they have something to hide!
2. They’re easy to do
Because criminal background checks for employment have become so commonplace, they’ve become very easy to get done. In fact, you can even do online background checks! Thanks to the power of the world wide web, with just a few clicks of your mouse, you can find out everything you need to know about a job applicant’s criminal background.
And, just because you’re dealing with the web doesn’t mean you have to worry about the information being anything less than accurate. After all, police departments and criminal courts store all of their information online, so it makes sense that you’d be able to access everything online!
Thanks to online background checks, you don’t have to wait for weeks on end to get the A-OK on someone. That way, you can move forward with the hiring process, without worrying that a top-notch applicant is going to get scooped up by another company with a faster background check process!
3. They can save you a lot of trouble later
As much as you hate the thought of something terrible happening at your company, it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Doing an employee criminal background check doesn’t make you immune to workplace violence, but it can help you keep known troublemakers away. Just think of how terrible you would feel if a criminal injured or killed your other employees – and you could have prevented it with a preemployment screening.
You might even find yourself explaining your actions in court. It’s not unheard of for employers to be sued for putting their employees at unnecessary risk. Even if you’re not found to be negligent, you’ll still have plenty of legal fees (and headaches!) to deal with in the meantime.
The team at Tenant Screening Services LLC can help you find the very best employees!
