Hiring lousy employees can be one of the most significant mistake an employer can ever do. This can place the company’s name and reputation at risk and put the your life and those of your other employees in danger.

There are many things you can do to avoid having bad employees get into your company. But possibly the most effective one is by conducting an intensive employment background search. A background check will be able to provide information regarding an applicant’s personal data, criminal records, driving records, medical records, educational background, employment history, military records, licenses, character references and many others.

This not only helps you steer clear of people who have undergone resume falsification by confirming the information mentioned in the resume, but more importantly this helps you avoid employees who had been involved in cases like fraud, stealing, sexual abuse or violent behavior.

Consider hiring a person whom did not know has a historical past of violent behavior. One day you find out about it after he physically injured one of your customers. This customer then sues your company and affects your company’s reputation negatively. An employment background search will help youprevent such scenarios.

Another way you can avoid bad employees is by doing some investigations on your own. For one, you can contact the applicant’s previous employers so you will get to know the kind of overall performance he had for his previous employer. Just be careful of false references who are people paid to pretend as employer references.

You can also conserve yourself from all the problems that a bad employee may inflict by having an employee in the applicants’ waiting room pose as a fellow applicant. This employee will say unfavorable things about the employer or say things like, “I really don’t plan to stay long in this company.” How the applicantsreact and comments will give you an idea on the kind of employee they will be when they get into your company.