Resume Falsifications

Hiring bad employees can be one of the biggest mistake an employer can ever do. This can put the company’s name and reputation at stake and put the your life and those of your other employees at risk.

There are many ways you can do to avoid having bad employees get into your company. But probably the most effective one is by conducting an intensive employment background search. A background check will be able to supply 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 avoid people who have undergone resume falsification by confirming the information stated 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.

Imagine hiring a person whom did not know has a history 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 you avoid 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 performance he had for his former employer. Just be careful of pretend-references who are people paid to pretend as employer references.

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