Why Do Background Checks?For a security-minded person, background checks should be done for a variety of reasons!
• Pre-employment screening • Post-employment • Asset checks • People locator • Fraud Investigations • Missing Persons • Verification of witness credibility • Doctor background • Executive background • Nanny background • Tenant background • Pre-marital background check • ANY caregiver!
Your personal security is placed at risk more often than you think.
Statistics reveal that 40% of all applicants lie on their resumes. Do you think these people only lie on job applications? Really, almost half of all people that you make yourself vulnerable to could very well be lying about their backgrounds.
This could place you and your loved ones at serious risk!
Our company did a study on the hiring practices of a billion-dollar company, with their permission of course. They had interviewed and conducted their own "background check" on one particular employee and it appeared clean. They were ready to hire him as an armed Security Officer at a military base. We did our own investigation, using our databases, contacts, and expertise. What did we discover? This person had a recent arrest for assault with a deadly weapon! We also discovered this person had a history of reports for assault against him! Their background report had failed to uncover this crucial piece of information! Imagine giving this “hot head” a gun and a job where he had to deal with difficult situations! Now as for a potential employee, the benefit of doing a background investigation on this person is evident. What if this guy is your new boyfriend? Do you want to find out sooner, or later, that your new beau has a temper and a history of acting on it in a destructive way? How about if this guy is the new teacher at your school? Or youth pastor? Or soccer coach? Get my point? Do background checks! Another concern is the growing number of cyberspace relationships. Hey, I am not knocking it. That is how my wife and I met. However, most of our towns are no longer like Mayberry where everyone knows someone who knows something about your new beau. The average job lasts 2 years before a person moves on. The average residency is 5 years before a person moves to the next town. My point is that it is getting harder and harder to get to know a person.
We were contacted by an east coast family who were concerned with their sister’s new internet relationship with a guy on the west coast. Being on the west coast, they asked us to conduct a background check on this guy. Their sister, who had children, was ready to marry this man and start a new life together. The glitch was that he needed money to get to the east coast and then he “had a job out there and would pay her back”. I won’t go in to the sob story he had given his fiancée, but it sounded convincing to her. However, her family had the wisdom to check this guy out…
…Yes, he was a phony. He was married and living with his wife and family, with no intention of divorce or relocation. He was simply trying to steal her money via the internet. This is unfortunately becoming more and more common. What if this guy was someone you were planning on joining in a business venture? What if this guy sets up an online “non-profit organization” and asks for money for the orphans on Mars? Do background checks! Bottom line: Anytime you give another person access to vulnerable places in your life - your business, your home, your dependents, your money, your assets – you need to conduct a background investigation first!
Whether or not you hire a professional or do it yourself is a matter of what is at stake and how much time or resources you have available. You can do it yourself, especially if it is for a local, stable individual.
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