Employee Screening: Manage Risks & Hire Genuine Candidates

Pre-employment screening today forms an integral part of risk management with more and more businesses realising the immense risks of employing candidates without proper background check.

In today’s competitive world, candidates often lie in their resumes and are found to be less competitive than what their resumes claim to be.

Unless you carefully manage risks, you are left wide open to exploitation. For a small investment that you make in hiring an employment screening service, you could save yourself large sums of money, valuable time and harassment.

Negligent hiring can seriously impact the business and the owner. For instance, if an employee assaults another employee or a customer, in most cases the liability rests on the shoulders of the employer. The situation worsens if the employee is found to have a previous criminal record.

This is on the basis of the assumption that the employer should have enquired about the background of the hire before appointing him/her. So, unless you have a really compelling evidence to support your statement, you have little or no chance of getting a clean chit.

 

Let’s find out how employee background screening can help you:

• Safeguard organisational assets

Employees you hire have access to business property and valuable company information. With a proper pre-employment screening, you can reduce the chances of theft and corporate spying.

• Make your workplace safer

Background screening can help make the workplace safer by filtering candidates with criminal records. Pre-employment screening focuses on carrying out a detailed check of a prospective hire’s history and character.

• Hire the most potential candidates

Background checks act as a valuable tool for selecting the right candidate every time. When a business uses background check as a routine, it deters fake employees from applying right at the start. This simple step can actually help an organisation eliminate many future problems. A great employee screening company will thoroughly screen a candidate to ensure that he/she meets the requirements for a desired role. A suitable candidate in turn means high performance and improved ROI for the business.

• Maintain corporate reputation

One bad hire can spoil the long built reputation of a business. With technological advancements and more and more users having access to smartphones and internet, any news good or bad spreads in no time. A criminal offence or fraud committed by an employee turns out as a black mark for the organisation and you then need to spend time, effort and money in reputation management and PR activities.

Mitigate risks associated with hiring with a reliable employment screening company.

Risq Group is one of Asia’s leading and trusted employee screening and risk management service provider. With a team of expert advisers, Risq group can assist your organisation in taking informed business hiring decisions. For more details, please visit www.risqgroup.com

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