Pre-employment Screening

Inadequate hiring practices are causing escalating and alarming losses in the form of employee theft, excessive worker compensation costs, absenteeism and company benefit abuse in both large and small companies. Hiring an employee without knowing much about them is a huge risk in today's market. Global economic turmoil has reduced corporate loyalties and increased theft and corporate abuse in record numbers. Federal fraud convictions have doubled since 1982.

 

Do you really know who you are hiring? Guard Against Negligent Hiring Practices

Falsified Applications and Resumes

Nationwide, applicant statistics indicate staggering trends as indicated by a survey published by the Society of Human Resource Management:

               44% Lie about previous job titles

               45% Lie about criminal records

               33% Lie about their driving records

               30% Lie about their college degrees

               35% Lie about their former employer recommendations

STOP Employee Theft

“Nationwide losses due to employee theft are greater than $40 billion a year (more than 1% of the Gross National Product) and increasing at a rate of 15% per year” - United States Department of Commerce

 

“Retail establishments report employee theft is the biggest source of losses, $817 million annually and account for 43% of shrinkage losses” - A study by Arthur Young & Co.

 

“Financial Institution fraud has nearly doubled in recent years with the average loss equaling more than $50,000 annually” (86% of all losses)

- Federal Bureau of Investigation

“In general, employee theft causes 30% of all business failures” - U.S. Chamber of Commerce

“61% of failed FDIC insured banks suffered criminal misconduct by bank insiders” - United States Department of Justice

Drug abuse

According to the Research Triangle Institute, drug abuse costs the national economy about $60 billion per year and the overall effects on the productivity of an individual user are that he or she:

1. is at least three times as likely to be involved in an accident

2. has more than twice as many absences of eight days or longer

3. receives at least three times the average amount of sick benefits

4. is five times as likely to file a worker’s compensation claim

5. is seven times as likely to be the target of garnishments

6. functions at about 65% of his or her work potential

 

Criminal Activities by employees

 

The FBI estimates that one of every four homes will be burglarized over the next 10 years. In the last decade, households have lost an estimated $13 billion and liability trends have weighed heavily against employers whose delivery or service representatives burglarized households or committed any criminal act subsequent to making business-related visits.

28 States now legally recognize that an employer is responsible for, and can be held accountable for, checking the background and references of any job applicant before placing that applicant in a position of high public contact. For example, a taxicab passenger injured in a traffic accident may sue the company not only for the injuries sustained as a result of the accident, the passenger may also sue for damages if it can be proved that the company did not conduct a proper background check that would have revealed the driver had a history of drunk-driving arrests, prior moving violations, or other background which would have made him unsuited for the position for which he was hired.

While few companies intentionally take unnecessary risks, hiring a person to work for your company without knowing as much as you can about them is a huge risk in today's business environment.

Pre-employment Screening Investigations will help you avoid the high costs of employee turnover due to insufficient knowledge of employees' past work records. You need to assure your staff that you are hiring only the best candidates for your limited positions.

Our investigations are conducted by experienced, professionally trained, investigators who obtain complete information about each applicant from records checks, test results, reference checks, and the best source of all, from the applicant’s themselves. Each investigator has been trained in interviewing techniques designed to derive the truth about each applicant but each applicant is treated with the utmost respect they deserve. Our investigations are completed in a timely manner and we insure complete satisfaction. Confidentiality is maintained throughout the process. In most cases we are able to report back to the client with results the same day of the applicant’s interview and we strive to follow up with a documented report within three business days.

If you would like us to conduct an investigation, please E-mail us at:

PRE-SCREENING INVESTIGATIONS

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San Diego, CA 92150-3278
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