Background Checks For Dummies

James Randall, regional manager at HireRight Middle East, reveals the basic steps you should take to ensure you’re making the right hire for your company.

A talented team of employees can be the spark that makes a good company stellar. But any one of those employees also has the potential to slam the brakes on that rise to greatness.

You can’t run a company without people, so how can you increase your odds of hiring the best of the best?

An employment background check programme is a way to gain confidence that the people you’re thinking about hiring really do have all the great qualifications they claim to have, and that there’s not some skeleton possibly lurking in a closet somewhere. Background checks can help to facilitate a safer workplace, staffed by qualified employees. Below are our top tips to get your employment checks right.

Decide when and whom to check, and for what

Numerous subsets of screening services may be included in an employment background check.

Which ones you choose will depend on a whole host of variables, including the nature of your industry, nature of your business, what kind of role you’re hiring for, where in the corporate hierarchy that role falls, and your organisation’s level of risk tolerance. Beyond that, you should be mindful of the laws and regulations affecting your organisation.

When you’re in the process of hiring and sorting through a group of potential candidates, you clearly want to be as thorough and careful as possible. But if your organisation is like most, you may not have the expertise and resources to dive deeply into each candidate’s background.