You might have experience as business owner, or manager, or human resource personnel in your company, to hire employees with half truth resumes. Actually based from studies, 75 percent of resumes have more or less falsified information and around 89 percent are misleading. Even with contact numbers available to give you the opportunity to run a background check or verification of their resumes, some employers fail to do pre-employment screening of their applicants. With this, companies suffer in hiring and retaining their hired employees and some have encountered nightmares in their public relations. And in some cases, there are workplace violence which have affected innocent lives.



A typical example is the experience of one university that once flashed in the news. It was about on one of their employees, the admission officer, who allegedly gave false information about her educational attainment. And that she did not really finish the degree that she claimed.

By thoroughly screening during pre-employment and by running background check, you can avoid lawsuits from to hiring the wrong person. You can cull out unqualified applicants and it can save a lot of your time and resources in hiring, training, and firing inappropriate employees. By simply verifying the resume and educational background of the applicant, this can prevent any termination lawsuits in the future.

Companies giving services on employment screening have different services available to their customers. They can provide customized screening depending on the industry you belong.

For example in healthcare industry, the available background check they offer are social security number report, state criminal report, sex offender check, employment verification, education verification, medical abuse check, and professional license check. For companies involved in trucking hiring their delivery drivers or long-haul truckers, they need social security number report, national criminal report, license verification, and motor vehicle report. Social security number report, national criminal report, employment verification, education verification, and sex offender check are needed by childcare centers and other educational institutions. And for those in finance or accounting departments, national criminal report, education verification, social security number check, employment verification, OFAC terrorist check, and credit check are beneficial to use.

After deciding to implement pre-employment screening, the next concern is finding the right business or company in-charge of doing the background checks. The first step is to check the list of well-established companies with proven track record in giving accurate and quality report. Second is check whether they observe confidentiality of reports. Third, see if they have licensed investigators and if they are providing an opportunity for you to speak to their live researchers. After these, you can finally choose the one that covers both the domestic and international searching and those that do hands-on court research in United States.

In today's scenario, where falsification of resume and other documents are prevalent, it is highly recommended to undergo pre-employment screening and background checks of your applicants and even to your existing employees to give you confidence that you have a good pool of human resources.