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Background Screening: A Must for Employee Selection Lorie Hayes, Hire Standard

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Background Screening: A Must for EmployeeSelectionLorie Hayes, Hire Standard

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‘Support and Protection for your hiring process’

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Take the informed route!

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Background Screening serves 2 functions…

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Minimizing Risk

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Maximizing Success

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Minimizing Risk

• Negligent hiring lawsuits• Workplace theft and violence• Falsified or inflated details on resumes• Unsuitable people in positions dealing with children or other vulnerablepersons

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Maximizing Success

• Determine fit for the organization and positionHarmony in the workplace

Increased productivityDecreased turn over and               

training costs

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Happy Workplace.Happy Mindspace.

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What do I need to know before I startbackground screening?

• Applicants must supply all information you will be researching.  You may let them know what you are looking for such as “work” related references.

• Applicants must give written permission for you to access the information.

• Consistency is a must.

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Background Screening Tools• Reference Checks• Employment Verification• Education/Credential Verification• Credit Summary• ID Verification• Criminal Record Checks• Skills testing for Computer Competency• Personality Profiling• Job Match Profiling

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Employment Verification and Education or Credential 

Verification 

• Will verify that the information an applicant has provided is true .… or in some cases, will reveal inconsistencies.

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Credit Summaries and Criminal Record Checks

• Display a person’s history and should be used for ‘at risk’ positions 

• Can be accessed by a licensed background screening provider or a police service

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Skill testing for Computer Competency

• Efficiency in a specific program • Typing speed and accuracy 

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Personality and Job Match Profiling

• Personality Profiling helps to show a person’s areas of strength and weakness. 

• Job match profiling – a tool that cross references a person’s personality profiling to the traits required to succeed in a particular position.

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Reference checks CAN be the single most effective tool in your background 

screening bag….

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‘The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour’~ Dr. Phil

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CAN? …. Or Will.

2 Things Determine the effectiveness of your  Reference Checks…

1.)  The Right Questions2.)  Honest and Accurate Answers

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Gettin’ the Dirt

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Benefits of using our Background Screening Service

• Legitimizes the call • Information provided is not shared with the applicant

• Consent forms to access the information• Experience that puts people at ease and allows us to pick up on hesitation or inconsistency

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Key Questions

• Would you rehire this person?• What is this person’s strongest asset?• Can you suggest an area that this person can use some development in?

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‘People are your most important resource’ 

Tools   Informed Decisions   Success