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Hiring with Missing Information – A True, Compelling Story  

If you think you don’t need to run a thorough background check using a competent data screening agency, you may change your view once you consider this true story.

A few years ago, an experienced and established data screening agency ran a background check on a potential candidate for hire. The agency uncovered a criminal record. The candidate had previously been convicted of assault and was sentenced to anger management classes. As a result, the candidate lost the job opportunity.

When the candidate discovered the data screening agency exposed his record (which was the right thing to do for the client), he showed up at the agency, unannounced and quite upset.

Later, the agency discovered the same candidate applied at one of their client’s competitors. The competitor did NOT run a thorough background check. It only did fingerprinting. Since the outcome of the fingerprinting takes up to three weeks, the competitor hired the candidate and put the person to work without a clue about his criminal record.

Fingerprinting is good in some ways. It captures a large area but has a long turnaround time. Additionally, more than 50 percent of the cases identified by fingerprinting lack final dispositions of the cases.

Due to kindly intervention – when the agency’s client found out about the candidate being hired by another company, they told the agency, who then contacted the hiring company – a potentially harmful situation was avoided.

But isn’t it best to have all information to weigh before making a decision? Why not connect with an agency like Data Screening, that will provide the accurate and complete results you need?

About DataScreeening.com

Data Screening is a Certified Women’s Business Enterprise that has offered business-to-business employment and tenant screenings to human resource professionals and business owners, including staffing companies, for two decades. Among other organizations, they are members of the New Jersey Staffing Alliance, the Society for Human Resource Management and the National Association of Professional Background Screeners. How may we help you today?

 

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