There is a familiar saying, “seeing is believing” but in reality, must we wait to experience grievous loss before we react or believe that there are employment risks. Can seeing be believing when an organization thrives to achieve its target mark? In the process of achieving this mark, there are possible risk you cannot afford to downplay.
To downplay on employment risk and not consider a background check solution is like waiting to experience a bad thing before believing it’s true. The effect of the ruin when downplaying on background check could degenerate into massive issues with your corporate vision and reputation. This could occur as a result of a hiring process that is based on the idea of downplaying background check, this is based on the believe that background check is irrelevant. What is the essence of hiring and accepting details and credentials from a potential employee who wants you to blindly trust and accept what he/she wants you to believe?
Here are vital areas employers and Human Resource Professionals often downplay when conducting background checks within the system.
- Inadequate Check on International Employee
Just because he/she is a foreign expert, and his/her expertise is dearly needed should not be a good reason to limit his/her background check search. Do not be deceived or restricted by distance, international employees have their information in their home countries. It is highly important to verify. Who knows, they may claim to have a degree they never earned or the university declared may be a ghost institution.
- Not Engaging the Right Background Check Company
Engaging the right background check company matters. The essence of having an expert background check company is to provide independent and expert advice, opinion and swift detailed solution on issues around background check with due care and professional agility to avert legal and delicate issues without bias or influence. A background check expert company without the mentioned qualities will act otherwise, and provide less detailed information to aid hiring decision. Background Check is highly beyond submitting paper documents to clients. A background check report is expected to provide expert advice and an independent opinion for the client in itself.
- Scrimping on Background Check Cost
Being parsimonious about what threatens your corporate vision is not a right decision. The cost of a bad hire is very high and grievous when compared to the cost of a background check. The cost of a bad hire is beyond monetary value, it could cost you your corporate vision and reputation. It could also be a threat to the purity of your team spirit. A drop of proactive prevention is worth its value in a pool of possible risk environment. The value of background check is golden at all time.
- Detaching Friends and associates from Background Check Process
Regardless of the manner a candidate had been hired or recommended, it shouldn’t hinder or separate such candidate from a background check process. To recommend is good, but a background check is true to advise if the recommended candidate is worth the risk of accepting such candidate. Do not downplay on background check in the face of risk because they are your associates. One previous employment dent, bad character issue, criminal history e.t.c could resurface because you exempted your friends and associates from background check.
- Exempting People in Key Positions/Executives from In-depth Background Check
The view that new hires for senior executive position would not condescend to falsify or hide information is largely untrue. The fraud and grievous damage to a corporate vision and reputation is vastly high at the top executive level. The background check policy should be all encompassing across the entire candidates within an organization. An un-bias background check company with content knowledge of Directors and Top-Level Management Background Check should be engaged to conduct the required with due care and profession awareness.
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