| When you do a background check on someone | | | | employees under the concept of negligent hiring, it |
| you want to hire and the report comes back | | | | is also important for you to do drug tests, and |
| clean, does that that make you want to | | | | use employment tests and psychometric tests |
| celebrate? Do you want to breathe a sigh of | | | | that measure things like integrity, and attitudes |
| relief? | | | | towards substance abuse. It is important to |
| Maybe you shouldn't. A clean background check | | | | gather all of the relevant, job related information |
| can easily give you a false sense of security. | | | | you can legally gather about job applicants before |
| All you know is that the applicant wasn't | | | | you make an offer. |
| convicted successfully for criminal acts. Maybe | | | | Why are employment assessments so important? |
| they did things they weren't supposed to do but | | | | Experts will tell you that things like values are |
| weren't caught. Maybe they were caught, but | | | | typically an all or none proposition because most |
| weren't prosecuted. Maybe they weren't | | | | parents don't teach selective values. If you can |
| prosecuted successfully, even though they were | | | | assess the presence or absence of core values |
| guilty. | | | | like honesty and a drug free lifestyle, then it gives |
| Performing background checks is a good start, | | | | you tremendous insight into risks associated with |
| but you might still be at risk and not even know | | | | job applicants that you wouldn't have gotten any |
| it. Since you can be held responsible for the | | | | other way. |
| criminal and torturous acts committed by your | | | | |