Background Check

Pre-Employment Background Checks can prevent your company from becoming another costly statistic.

• Hiring the wrong person can cost upward of 24 times the individual's annual salary, once expenses associated with hiring, compensation, lost business opportunities and severance are factored in.

• Bad Hires have an absentee rate 4 X higher than the average employee (with the average cost of absenteeism being more than $800 per employee).

• In the American Business Community, two out of three new hires will become a Bad Hire in the first year.

• One out of three business will be sued this year by a Bad Hire over an employment issue.

• A business can lose up to 20% of every dollar earned from theft by a Bad H ire (resulting in $60 to $120 Billion annually in the American Business Community).

• In an attempt to hide obvious Bad Hire warning flags, approximately 95% of applicants have falsified at least some facts on their resumes.

• Substance Abuser Bad Hires are involved in approximately 20-25% of workplace accidents. They are 3 X more likely to report for work late and 5 X more likely to file a worker’s compensation claim.

• Each year tens of thousands of violent threats are made by Bad Hires in the workplace, leading to thousands of workers being attacked and injured (more than two million Americans each year).

• Violence from Bad Hires in the workplace accounts for 17% of all occupational fatalities, making it the second leading cause of job related fatalities, right behind traffic deaths.

• 40% of working women who die in the workplace do so from murder comitted by Bad Hires (fellow employees who had a violent criminal record that would have been discovered with a background Check.)

Social Security Trace is a vital first step in conducting a comprehensive employment background check. It is essential for uncovering a candidate's possible criminal record by:

• Establishing whether the SSN is valid.
• Determining that the SSN is actually registered to your employee/candidate.
• Verifies the SSN itself.
• Reveals past and present addresses.
• Exposes any aliases or maiden names used.
• Establishes the timeframe of when the SSN was issued, put into use, and the state of issue.

Take this simple, yet critical step in preventing a potentially complicated and costly situation, that could leave your company wide open to violations of basic labor laws.