BACKGROUND CHECKING TO PREVENT WORKPLACE THEFT

Retailers lose over 13 billion dollars annually to workplace theft. For this reason, many of these retailers are finding that conducting a criminal background check on all current and potential employees is becoming a must.

Retailers must consider what they pay in time, money and effort to hire and train an employee. When you add it all up, the national average is well over $3,000 per employee.

Add to that cost an unscrupulous criminal posing as an employee and you've got quite a large figure of money lost.

Most of these workplace thefts are conducted by employees with previous criminal records. As a matter of fact, an astonishing 58% have a previous criminal background. that means for the small price of $25 or less many of these employers could have prevented their losses. All they had to do was conduct a criminal history report or background check on their applicants and employees.

By using a background check screening process employers can:

• Prevent throwing money away on training criminals
• Prevent inventory from being stolen
• Prevent workplace violence
• Create a positive work environment

There are two types of criminal background checks available to retailers. They are:

• Instant criminal background checks
• County criminal background checks

BACKGROUND CHECK DATA COLLECTION PROCESSES

Instant background check searches come from databases collected directly by data vendors from the federal, state and local levels. the records they collect are then put into a database and made available to corporations and private individuals.

One drawback of these instant criminal databases is that not all records may be covered. This is normally due to the fact that not all counties within states have their information in a digital format that can be collected.

The other option is a county criminal search. These searches are done usually by data brokerages that will send a researcher out to a county courthouse on behalf of their client to search the county courthouse records for offenses.

While county searches can be considered more accurate than a criminal database search, the drawback is that they only cover a single county.

INTEGRASCAN'S STATEWIDE AND NATIONAL BACKGROUND CHECK REPORTS

At IntegraScan, we offer comprehensive statewide and national background check reports that include, address history, arrest record information, tax liens, bankruptcy filings, evictions and more.

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