Tags |
|
|
Links |
|
|
I Advice - Screen Test: How To Separate The Pros From The Cons
Nearly all franchising companies require initial training to teach the new franchises how to run their franchised outlets. Some of the modern-day franchise companies have extensive training in teach people every single aspect to the business and some of these companies are not very simple and therefore neither is the training.In our franchising company we had a simple concept, which was easy to train. Each franchise or is required to disclose in the disclosure documents and franchise agreement the amount of training which will be given in required to pass. This allows the franchise buyer a chance to understand what all is involved with the time commitment for th
What is background checking?
Gone are the days of relying only on reference calls to screen new hires. With increasing security concerns, corporate scandals, and workplace violence, pre-employment screening is not only on the rise—it’s becoming standard operating policy. And at all levels. For presidents and CEOs, to the people in your creative department, to warehouse workers and call center representatives.
Pre-employment screening is often cond
Whenever I talk about buying businesses I tend to get a lot of questions about distance. How far away should a business you buy be? Should it be in your backyard? Should it be in another city? Another state? Another country? In other words, they want to know if distance plays a factor in the success of a business they buy, and what do I think about it? My answer: Ideally -- and this is different for everyone, so this is just my personal preference -- I would recommend one closer to home but not too close. You don’t want to live over the store. You have no idea what you're in for if it's right down the street (even if you are having other people run i
The prime suspect, Darryl Littlejohn, who was indicted for the murder, has a long rap sheet, including multiple drug offenses and robberies and had served time in prison. And according to the terms of his parole, wasn’t allowed to work—anywhere—after 9pm.
The alleged killer met his victim in the bar where he worked as a bouncer. In New York, as in other cities and states, it’s the law to do criminal background checks on people who work in certain kinds of jobs and businesses: like bouncers, security guards, airport workers—even Wall Street brokers. The bar owner admitted he didn’t do the required background check prior to hiring Littlejohn.
So what does this grisly big city crime have to do with your business and workplace issues? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Unless a person like this is working in your distribution center.
Separating the Pros From The Cons
Is employment screening currently part of your hiring process? Are criminal background checks part of company policy? If not, they should be. Regardless of the size of your business.
Over 82% of HR professionals report that their companies do background checks of new hires, up from 66% in 1996 according to The Society for Human Resource Management, Workplace Violence Survey.
Last year, a client experienced a serious theft problem in his warehouse. It took several months for the numbers to reveal the extent of the theft.
In retrospect, the employee who stole from his employer would have flunked background checks in three areas. He was on probation. He owed restitution for the crime he had committed. His bill paying history was bad news because of how much he had to repay. A background check of his criminal history and his credit record may have caused our client to make a different choice (they were giving him a chance). But, the extent of his problems was never revealed.
It's all about reducing risk
Employment screening is your front line of defense. Your first and best opportunity to eliminate candidates who are dangerous, dishonest or have a history of poor work performance. Pre-employment screening is a necessary hiring practice to avoid lawsuits and costly hiring mistakes.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know that the new person you’re hiring is telling the truth? Absolutely. But don’t count on it. It’s estimated that up to 40% of resumes can contain false or tweaked information. It’s up to you and your company to make sure you’re getting in an employee everything that what was represented and promised. You’re not only responsible, you’re liable.
What is background checking?
Gone are the days of relying only on reference calls to screen new hires. With increasing security concerns, corporate scandals, and workplace violence, pre-employment screening is not only on the rise—it’s becoming standard operating policy. And at all levels. For presidents and CEOs, to the people in your creative department, to warehouse workers and call center representatives.
Pre-employment screening is often condu
Can leadership exist where there is no vision? For perspective, let us review the Story of the Three Stonemasons.Three stonemasons were busy at work when a passerby asked them, “What are you doing?”The first stonemason responded, “Laying bricks, sir.”The second mason answered, “Earning a living.”But, when asked by the passerby what he was doing, the third stonemason said, “I’m building a cathedral.”The third craftsperson had a vision and saw the greater purpose of their labor. It was the third that recognized they would leave a lasting legacy.Leadership without vision isn’t true leadership at all. It is management. While manag
So what does this grisly big city crime have to do with your business and workplace issues? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Unless a person like this is working in your distribution center.
Separating the Pros From The Cons
Is employment screening currently part of your hiring process? Are criminal background checks part of company policy? If not, they should be. Regardless of the size of your business.
Over 82% of HR professionals report that their companies do background checks of new hires, up from 66% in 1996 according to The Society for Human Resource Management, Workplace Violence Survey.
Last year, a client experienced a serious theft problem in his warehouse. It took several months for the numbers to reveal the extent of the theft.
In retrospect, the employee who stole from his employer would have flunked background checks in three areas. He was on probation. He owed restitution for the crime he had committed. His bill paying history was bad news because of how much he had to repay. A background check of his criminal history and his credit record may have caused our client to make a different choice (they were giving him a chance). But, the extent of his problems was never revealed.
It's all about reducing risk
Employment screening is your front line of defense. Your first and best opportunity to eliminate candidates who are dangerous, dishonest or have a history of poor work performance. Pre-employment screening is a necessary hiring practice to avoid lawsuits and costly hiring mistakes.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know that the new person you’re hiring is telling the truth? Absolutely. But don’t count on it. It’s estimated that up to 40% of resumes can contain false or tweaked information. It’s up to you and your company to make sure you’re getting in an employee everything that what was represented and promised. You’re not only responsible, you’re liable.
What is background checking?
Gone are the days of relying only on reference calls to screen new hires. With increasing security concerns, corporate scandals, and workplace violence, pre-employment screening is not only on the rise—it’s becoming standard operating policy. And at all levels. For presidents and CEOs, to the people in your creative department, to warehouse workers and call center representatives.
Pre-employment screening is often cond
It's a brave new world. Effective management now means more than how you handle your staff. Management also includes how you manage your social reproducibility to others in your community. "There is no way to avoid paying serious attention to corporate citizenship: the costs of failing are simply too high. There are countless win-win opportunities waiting to be discovered: every activity in a firm's value chain overlaps in some way with social factors - everything from how you buy or procure to how you do your research - yet very few companies have thought about this.The goal is to leverage your company’s unique capabilities in supporting social causes and imp
Last year, a client experienced a serious theft problem in his warehouse. It took several months for the numbers to reveal the extent of the theft.
In retrospect, the employee who stole from his employer would have flunked background checks in three areas. He was on probation. He owed restitution for the crime he had committed. His bill paying history was bad news because of how much he had to repay. A background check of his criminal history and his credit record may have caused our client to make a different choice (they were giving him a chance). But, the extent of his problems was never revealed.
It's all about reducing risk
Employment screening is your front line of defense. Your first and best opportunity to eliminate candidates who are dangerous, dishonest or have a history of poor work performance. Pre-employment screening is a necessary hiring practice to avoid lawsuits and costly hiring mistakes.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know that the new person you’re hiring is telling the truth? Absolutely. But don’t count on it. It’s estimated that up to 40% of resumes can contain false or tweaked information. It’s up to you and your company to make sure you’re getting in an employee everything that what was represented and promised. You’re not only responsible, you’re liable.
What is background checking?
Gone are the days of relying only on reference calls to screen new hires. With increasing security concerns, corporate scandals, and workplace violence, pre-employment screening is not only on the rise—it’s becoming standard operating policy. And at all levels. For presidents and CEOs, to the people in your creative department, to warehouse workers and call center representatives.
Pre-employment screening is often cond
We recently had a client who is a multi-national retailer with both a physical and Internet presence. The client needed a way to acquire certain business intelligence (BI) data from the Internet on a daily basis. After several unsuccessful attempts to create this functionality themselves, they came to us for a solution.On the surface the requirements seemed to be difficult and it was easy to see why their own IT team had failed to find a solution. They were thinking "inside the box", however, and hadn't considered third-party alternatives. The specifications required that the application perform all of these tasks:Retrieve new product listings on competitor
It's all about reducing risk
Employment screening is your front line of defense. Your first and best opportunity to eliminate candidates who are dangerous, dishonest or have a history of poor work performance. Pre-employment screening is a necessary hiring practice to avoid lawsuits and costly hiring mistakes.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know that the new person you’re hiring is telling the truth? Absolutely. But don’t count on it. It’s estimated that up to 40% of resumes can contain false or tweaked information. It’s up to you and your company to make sure you’re getting in an employee everything that what was represented and promised. You’re not only responsible, you’re liable.
What is background checking?
Gone are the days of relying only on reference calls to screen new hires. With increasing security concerns, corporate scandals, and workplace violence, pre-employment screening is not only on the rise—it’s becoming standard operating policy. And at all levels. For presidents and CEOs, to the people in your creative department, to warehouse workers and call center representatives.
Pre-employment screening is often cond
As an entrepreneur starting a new business or trying to manage a young business you may be in the position, common to most people in startups, of running from one task to the next trying to manage all the planned events while juggling the unplanned ones. These competing events can be overwhelming and leave you in a constant state of anxiety of trying to accomplish a never ending workload that only gets larger and more unfinished each day, forcing you to put in too many hours. Not only will this take a toll on you personally and physically, it can also destroy relationships. And really, is success and money worth dying over? Is it worth failed marriages and relationsh
What is background checking?
Gone are the days of relying only on reference calls to screen new hires. With increasing security concerns, corporate scandals, and workplace violence, pre-employment screening is not only on the rise—it’s becoming standard operating policy. And at all levels. For presidents and CEOs, to the people in your creative department, to warehouse workers and call center representatives.
Pre-employment screening is often conducted by or outsourced to third party consumer reporting agencies, as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) of the Federal Trade Commission.
You not only can get information on job applicants, but background checks on your current employees, too. You’re able to get: court-by-court searches of criminal records nationwide, with up to date criminal activity, motor vehicle reports, social security traces, employment credit reports, workers’ compensation filings, employment, education, and professional license verifications, and reference interviews. Also provided are drug and alcohol testing, employment physicals and Form I-9 services (Immigration Reform and Control Act).
What does it cost?
In some cases, expect to pay a screening organization a one-time setup or administrative fee of $100 or more for your company, plus the costs of the background searches you want done. The fees are not that much and discounts are usually given for multiple screenings done within a year.
Setting up a screening program policy
The FCRA sets the standards for screening for employment. It defines a background check as a consumer report. Before you can get a consumer report for employment purposes, you must notify the job candidate in writing and get written authorization. This can be included within your company’s employment application form. If you’re simply conducting inquiries—rather than running reports—you should also get consent.
Take the time necessary to educate yourself on the process. Many small business agencies such as SCORE or the Small Business Administration (SBA) can provide counsel. Visit your state and local government’s websites on FCRA and Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
Become familiar with all necessary disclosure, adverse action, and other critical forms and letters you’ll need to be FCRA and state-law compliant. A third party, as part of its service, generally takes care of much of this work.
Be safe. Be smart. Don’t wait. Pre-employment background screening should now be standard practice of operating your business.
HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.willuadd.com/article/23032/willuadd-Screen-Test--How-To-Separate-The-Pros-From-The-Cons.html">Screen Test: How To Separate The Pros From The Cons</a>
BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.willuadd.com/article/23032/willuadd-Screen-Test--How-To-Separate-The-Pros-From-The-Cons.html]Screen Test: How To Separate The Pros From The Cons[/url]
Related Articles:
Tips For Choosing The Right Graphic Designer
Bookmark it:
|