Are you the hiring Manager?  Do you do employment screening before you hire someone?  Not all companies have the resources and talent to do these types of screening.  For the safety of your company and the employee prospective employee background checks are important.  Use these tips to hone your skills in doing background checking.

Make sure you employee application obtains plenty of information to start your background check.  Missing information that helps you learn more about the applicant will make your checking more difficult.  Look over your application form and create one that will help you in your background check.

The first thing you need to do is a Social Security Check.  This is a powerful employment screening tactic.  Order this check to authenticate the applicant’s Social Security.  This check can reveal all past addresses and aliases.  Many people steal other people’s Social Security number.

After you have the information from the Social, you can start the employment criminal background check.  You can also start checking the individual’s driving record.  These two searches will give a better idea of the prospective historical data.

Once you have completed a variety of different information, you can match it up with the information you have on the application form.  If there is a difference, then ask the applicant to explain this difference.  It can be that there is a logical explanation and there was no intention to hide historical information.

Now, you can do a credit check as part of the employment screening.  The credit report you get will be for employment decisions and this report will be different from a financial institution looking for credit worthiness. You cannot use a standard credit report for making employment decision.

To do a Criminal History Search you need a birth date.  You can not legal ask for this on your application.  One way to do this search is to do it after the applicant is hired.  Your hiring agreement should state that his employment status is based on passing the criminal history search.

One thing most screeners miss is getting past co-workers names and phone numbers.  Usually they will get supervisor’s names but also fail to get their phone numbers.  So get these names and phone numbers so that you can call and get more information on the prospective individual than would be provided by Human Resources.

There you have it a good outline to start your employment screening.  You first start with a good application form.  Move on to do the Social Security check and then do a driver’s license and employment criminal background check.  End with a credit check.  If you want more screening consider using a pre employment screening services.

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