3 Powerful Reasons Why
You Should Run a Background Check on Your Candidates
Every
employer knows the costs of a bad hire. The impacts are accounted for in time,
money and morale. The financial costs in particular are severe: recent
estimates indicate that a typical organization loses 5% of its revenues each
year to occupational fraud, with more than 20% of the cases suffering over $1
million in losses. As a result, a bad hire can be crippling for businesses
large and small.
In
the US, background checking has proven to be an enormous benefit to employers
in mitigating this risk. A report published by HR Management Magazine documents
the ROI of dollars spent on background checking as 937%. According to the
US Small Business Administration, for every dollar an employer invests in
employment screening, the return on investment ranges from $5-16, resulting
from improved productivity, reduced absenteeism, lower turnover – and decreased
employer liability. The economics of background checking are simply too
striking for employers to ignore.
Here
are three powerful reasons why you should run a background check on all your
candidates:
1. Hire legal workers
Hiring
someone without the right to work in country cause you more. The candidates
with the frequent changes in job that lay down the surety on stability. Try to
avoid hiring that kind of employee.
2. Hire safe workers
Ensuring
the safety of workers is a key responsibility for all employers. Do check those
candidates are not involved in to any criminal cases. For certain roles, such
as those which involve contact with children or the elderly, criminal
background checks are a legal requirement, but it is recommended that all
employers carry out a basic level of criminal check on their employees.
Employers in the delivery, transport or car-sharing space are also advised to
carry out “Driving Record Checks” to ensure that their drivers are safe and qualified to drive.
3. Hire honest workers
In
the 2014 Global Fraud Study, survey participants estimated that the
typical organization loses 5% of revenues each year to fraud. The median loss
caused by the frauds in the study was $145,000 and 22% of the cases involved
losses of at least $1 million. Whilst the impact is severe for all businesses,
it is the smallest organizations which tend to suffer disproportionately large
losses due to occupational fraud. Many organizations spend a lot of time and
money to recover the costs of fraud but are often unable to do so completely.
At the time of the survey, 58% of the victim organizations had not recovered
any of their losses due to fraud, and only 14% had made a full recovery.
It
may not be possible to predict the future, but it is possible to be informed of
the past. Many cases of occupational fraud are linked to other crimes such as
identity theft. By running a simple SSN Trace and “Document Image Check”, you
can be sure that your future employees are indeed who they say they are and
thereby less likely to pose risk to your business.
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to make background checks an essential part of your hiring?
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