One of the really interesting things to me about background checks is what services people use and why they choose to screen certain employees in certain ways.

Just for a quick example, a former employer of mine used to screen everyone exactly the same no matter what the position entailed. So a financial controller gets the same level of scrutiny as our janitor. The amount of background checks some lower level staff went through was excrutiating to them. The janitor candidates would shake their heads at the amount they would have to go through. We lost many others because of past credit problems as well.

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