Monday, November 22, 2004
Employee Screening - In the News
Excerpt from: In-depth background checks invaluable
Posted on Sun, Nov. 21, 2004
By ERIKA D. SMITH
Knight Ridder Newspapers
"Do not believe everything you read, especially on a resume. There is a good chance the applicant who is smiling in your face has lied to you. It may be a white lie that really does not matter. Or it could be a serious lie that could cost your company thousands or even millions of dollars in a negligent hiring lawsuit. The only way to find out is to adopt a rigorous pre-employment screening process. That means not only a criminal background check, but a drug test, a verification of their education and sometimes a credit check... The perception that pre-employment screening costs too much is a deterrent. In reality, a criminal, credit and drug check starts around $200 per applicant."
A basic employee background check (along with a 5 panel drug test) would actually cost only $100.00
"Would you rather spend $200 now or $2 million on a negligent hiring lawsuit later?"
"The rule is, if you could have known, you should have known"
"They should have known an employee would be a danger to those in the workplace ... or a third party," said Vincent Tersigni, chairman of the employment law practice group at Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs LLP in Akron. "I see more of (negligent hiring suits) these days, but it's still an emerging area of the law."
Negligent hiring lawsuits can sink a small-medium size business. Even the largest employer in the country has been pressured into employee screening by the increasing threat of negligent hiring suits.
"Some Internet services claim to do the same thing for about $5. But Morris said all they really do is a cursory search of national databases. It is easy to miss things when you do not check at the local level, too."
Very True!
"The best way to do a background check is to the same thing for everybody."
This is incorrect. You should do the same background check on everyone applying for the same position. Different positions require different levels of employee background checks. An executive level position requires a much more thourough employee background check than an administrative position.
Inquest Pre Employment Screening offers employee background checks and othe employee screening services to clients nationwide.
Posted on Sun, Nov. 21, 2004
By ERIKA D. SMITH
Knight Ridder Newspapers
"Do not believe everything you read, especially on a resume. There is a good chance the applicant who is smiling in your face has lied to you. It may be a white lie that really does not matter. Or it could be a serious lie that could cost your company thousands or even millions of dollars in a negligent hiring lawsuit. The only way to find out is to adopt a rigorous pre-employment screening process. That means not only a criminal background check, but a drug test, a verification of their education and sometimes a credit check... The perception that pre-employment screening costs too much is a deterrent. In reality, a criminal, credit and drug check starts around $200 per applicant."
A basic employee background check (along with a 5 panel drug test) would actually cost only $100.00
"Would you rather spend $200 now or $2 million on a negligent hiring lawsuit later?"
"The rule is, if you could have known, you should have known"
"They should have known an employee would be a danger to those in the workplace ... or a third party," said Vincent Tersigni, chairman of the employment law practice group at Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs LLP in Akron. "I see more of (negligent hiring suits) these days, but it's still an emerging area of the law."
Negligent hiring lawsuits can sink a small-medium size business. Even the largest employer in the country has been pressured into employee screening by the increasing threat of negligent hiring suits.
"Some Internet services claim to do the same thing for about $5. But Morris said all they really do is a cursory search of national databases. It is easy to miss things when you do not check at the local level, too."
Very True!
"The best way to do a background check is to the same thing for everybody."
This is incorrect. You should do the same background check on everyone applying for the same position. Different positions require different levels of employee background checks. An executive level position requires a much more thourough employee background check than an administrative position.
Inquest Pre Employment Screening offers employee background checks and othe employee screening services to clients nationwide.
