Conducting a background check as part of the hiring screening process is job hiring process. Since the process is relatively simple and inexpensive even small firms can afford to conduct pre employment screening.

Most background checks conducted by the employment screening companies are instant and accurate. With the applicant's name and social security number, the employment screening company can check the applicant's driving record, educational history and criminal records.

Most criminal background checks conducted by large employment screening companies include nation wide searches for criminal records. Since these records are not digitized, company representatives have to do manual court searches. Therefore the results for national criminal searches usually take a lot more time.

Background screening is becoming exceedingly important in the light of the fact that almost 40 per cent of all applicants lie or embellish records on their resume. The misquoted facts could be as simple as listing of non existent skills to fake educational qualifications.

Another reason that is motivating a lot of companies, even small ones, to initiate employment screenings are the lawsuits that some of them have recently been subject to because of workplace violence. Negligent Hiring jury awards average in excess of $500,000 and that does not include legal expenses.

Most quality pre employment screenings include criminal background checks as well as court searches.

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