Employment Screening
Hiring can often be an overwhelming process, but when you find the right candidate, it’s important to verify the information you have. Benefits of employment screening include:
- Goes farther than a resume to ensure a safe hire
- Reduces potential harm to company’s reputation
- Prevents negligent hiring claims
A Negligent Hiring claim comes about when a customer makes a claim based on a belief that an employee of a business harmed them through their dangerous or untrustworthy behavior, and further, that their employer should have known about that behavior.
Tenant Screening
Lack of tenant screening often leads to headache scenarios for landlords. It is vital to find out:
- Can your potential tenant pay the rent, do they have sufficient income?
- Does your potential tenant have a significant criminal history, are there issues that would make others in the area potentially unsafe?
- Does your potential tenant have a good credit history, do they have a track record of paying their bills on time?
- And likely most important, does your potential tenant have prior evictions?
It’s a good rule of thumb that after a first eviction the tenant has learned the legal process, knows much more about how it works, and perhaps is not fearful of going through it again.
Volunteer Screening
Many organizations rely on the help of volunteers and no one wants to think of a volunteer not being well intentioned. Whether it’s a social services organization, a church, education, or youth group all need to take steps to help ensure the integrity of their programs. Background screenings can help:
- Protect the populations using the services
- Provide a secure environment
- Protect the organization’s reputation
- Improve volunteer quality
The most common background screenings in the volunteer arena are the sex offender registry and the criminal background check.