Listing the Benefits of Pre-employment Background Checks

Workplace violence, theft, false resumes and injury claims are some of the serious concerns for employers. So it has become essential to conduct pre-employment background checks which helps in hiring right candidates for a right job. This also ensures safety at workplaces. Pre-employment background check includes general background investigation, military record search, court record search, medical record search and other general record searches. Many benefits can be provided by pre-employment background checks. Some of them are:

• Elimination of Workplace Violence
• Increase of Job Applicant Quality
• Protection Against Negligent Hiring Liability
• Avoiding Negative Publicity

Elimination of Workplace Violence:
Lost productivity, legal expenses, diminished public image, and others may be the affects of workplace environment. So pre-employment background checks helps in avoiding all these situations maintaining safety and discipline at workplace.

Increase of Job Applicant Quality:
An employee screening process can result in fewer applications with discrepancies. Applicants who try to hide any information can be avoided. It also enhances applications from those people who feel to work at safe environment.

Protection Against Negligent Hiring Ability:
Criminal history, character, and work experience of a job applicant need to be checked in the process of pre-employment background check. If any company fails to investigate on these matters, it is said to be negligent in hiring. It is necessary for an employer to know about its employees. Negligent hiring liability may hold employers responsible for actions of employees.

Avoiding Negative Publicity:
A negative publicity of the company by an errant employee could affect the reputation of the organization. So it is necessary to avoid such people at workplaces. It is better to know about the character of a person before hiring itself. This helps in avoiding negative publicity.

Apart from these, some other benefits provided by pre-employment background checks are reduction of employee dishonesty losses, qualitative and quantitative improvement of work, and secured workplaces. 

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