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Background checks can help prevent bad hires from needling your customers. I just didn’t think it would happen in such a literal fashion up in Canada. Check out this case courtesy of CTV Toronto:
Guelph, Ont. police have made an arrest in connection with a series of deli packages that were recently found with sewing needles inside them at a local No Frills supermarket.
I absolutely love our employees referring someone to work for our company. It not only tells me that we have a person who is engaged and who wants to have a person they (hopefully) know and like work for us but it gives a great message to the new employee starting. We also hope that we get a better fit as the person who works here is less likely to send
Out of all of the things going on during the hiring process, the background check process is the one frought with questions of ethics. Sure, investigating anyone’s past has a lot of potential hazards from a legal standpoint. But to me, the biggest factor are the ethical considerations.
In Human Resources, we deal with a lot of different ethics situations so I won’t go into too many details about the process of evaluating ethical decisions. But basically, the considerations are the company, the employees of the company, the person running the background check and the potential employee who is subject to background check.
We are doing a contest over on my social network (HRM Today) on hiring horror stories. If you have a good one, you should head over there and tell your story. You could win an iPod touch for your story. Not to mention that it is sponsored by our friends here at Crimcheck.
Since it is my network, I can’t participate but I wanted to share my story with you anyway. It is one of the reasons I am happy to be associated with a company that does background checks like Crimcheck.
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