How does a criminal background check impact the hiring process?
Despite working in an interconnected world, companies face challenges when they hire new employees. The same goes for whetting new vendors, contract staff or partnering with new individuals. It is critical to ensure a criminal background check is conducted to safeguard the assets, sensitive documents, and data. To avoid potential harm to the enterprise and incur losses, each business requires an organic ecosystem to onboard new people.
Employee Crossings is a professional company that understands the impact of criminal records on jobs, companies, and people. This article deep dives into the benefits of criminal background checks. It will provide the necessary insight related to our team investigations and assist companies.
No more two rounds of background checks
Nearly 1/4th of large enterprises in India are now seriously conducting background verification checks before onboarding new employees. In the IT industry, cheating cases are rising. It is important to check if a person being hired has committed fraud. With financial institutions, private and public banks safety measures are required.
Job aspirants who file fraudulent documents and experience certificates to gain access in companies are asked to leave or resign. As we are now interconnected there is less scope for in-person meetings. Virtual meetings require the next stage before hiring: a thorough criminal background check.
Parameters for conducting the evaluation
As a team, we understand the background check policy in hiring processes.
- Pending cases– We will check if the potential candidate has any cases which are active or to be adjudicated.
- Court records: We procure all information related to judgements, penalties or fines.
- Arrests: Has the candidate been arrested by a law enforcement agency?
- Convictions: Any proven guilty charges
- Sexual misconduct offence: Is this the name appearing in any database related to sexual offences on a national level?
How do we conduct the checks?
We know each client working with us needs to balance costs and risk factors. We focus on continued compliance. It also means the checks can happen at different stages of the tenure of an employee in sensitive cases. Security guards, IT personnel, and healthcare workers fall into this category. As a grounding reality, we use a combination of approaches: they could be manual or automated. Our reports are comprehensive and this is how it unfolds for the HR department.
Our team will collect the data of the candidate(s) which includes government identification and bio-data.
- Cross-verification is done with national registries.
- 3rd party validation is conducted. This ensures that the information we get is 100% verified. While evaluation for criminal background checks police records and court databases are required.
- A law firm can also be tapped to get information about any active cases.
- Compliance checks for accuracy before the final hiring process is initiated.
Criminal background checks matter for employers as they offer:
- Enhanced safety against hiring the wrong person.
- Legal compliance is required for education, healthcare or the law sector.
- Safeguarding the reputation of the company and its brands.
If you still doubt the benefits of criminal background checks, let us meet up. We can explain the experiences and satisfaction other clients have with our services.
