Saturday, April 23, 2011

Concerning Employee Screening Process

By Tuyet Lysiak


No matter what the size of your business is, employee screening is very important. In this process, the business establishment will get to know the applicants and determine if they are capable of handling the position they're applying for. This procedure calls for the HR department to ascertain if the applicant is being truthful regarding the claims in his or her curriculum vitae. The procedure will determine the validity of the resume's information and further assess the applicant's character, work ethics and behavior and others, to see if he/she will be a valuable asset to the company.

The Brady handgun law which was passed on a national level way back in 1990's was the cause of this requirement.

Getting to know the probable people who will be part of your workforce is quite logically necessary. Therefore, the main idea in screening applicants is to weed out the not so promising ones and take those who show potential. Every time companies hire new employees, they are expecting to land the most competent of them out there who would complement the revenues or increase the income of the company. Of course, apart from hiring skillful workers, the employment screening process can find out if the applicant is physically and mentally fit for the position.

Companies as of recent times have taken it upon themselves to recognize and acknowledge an employee's perseverance and overall performance or execution of his duties in the assigned work place. Employment screening is therefore a sure fire way for companies to explore all the applicant has to offer and decide if he has at east the potential to provide something good for the company.

A drawback to the necessary employee screening performed by the prospective employer that cannot be taken for granted is the legal procedure. You have to remember that the employee screening process involves digging up sometimes very personal information about the applicant.

A good and reliable source, like third party investigative bodies, of information is needed to verify the validity of the applicant's presented data and background checks or screening simply wouldn't be effective if this source was limited in any way. In some cases, the applicant is made to sign an authorizing document that allows the company to gather information on the applicant from the schools he has attended or from his previous employer. This only happens when there is a non-disclosure contract between the applicant and his previous employer exists and the prospective employer needs to know more about the applicant. As for school records, the institution may have more requirements aside from the authorization document that the prospective employer has to comply with before it is granted access.




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