Posts Tagged ‘Employment Screening’

Why would any employer hire someone these days without doing a complete background check? I’ll tell you why – they are either too cheap to pay for it or they don’t want to take 10 minutes out of their day to do it!. Yet, these are the same employers that act suprised when they find out the employee, youth worker, pastor, doctor, etc…stole from them, molested one of their kids, sexually harassed an associate or killed someone. With 89% of people lying on their resumes, it makes good business sense to do a criminal background check, employment verification and an education verification.

We have seen high profile coaches and CEO’s caught years later for lying about their education. Every other week, we see the news breaking a story where a service business such as carpet cleaners, alarm installers, or plumbers went into a victims home and stole from them or sexually harrassed them. Just recently a Pastor in Jacksonville Florida was caught for sending explicit sexual text messages to girls under the age of 16 and he had behavior issues from a prior church in Texas. We also find out that a YMCA counselor was charged with touching young girls under the age of 9. I ask again, “Do You Know Who Your Hiring?”

For less than thirty dollars per employee, an employer can protect their time and investment. You can’t put a price on peace of mind in these tough economic times. Business is hard enough without having to worry about rogue or bad employees and business partners. I challenge employers to spend a little bit of time and money to not only protect themselves but society as well.

Ben Franklin stated “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”

Volunteer youth workers are an important part of our childrens lives but do you really know who your leaving your child with? Background screenings should be done on every youth worker – 60% of convicted sex offenders are on parole or probation. The Bureau of Justice statistics study in the 90’s found that Among child molesters released from prison in 1994, 60% had been in prison for molesting a child 13 years old or younger.

Parents, do you really know your kids soccer coach, dance coach or teacher? I will ask the same question to the organizations; do you really know who you’re hiring? Its everyone’s’ responsibility to make sure the children are in a safe learning environment. Youth sports are on the rise which means even more children are being dropped off with their coaches and instructors; thereby, creating situations for potential sexual offenders, abductors and abusers. This topic is nothing new; just look back at the news stories – some of which have occurred in the past few weeks. Google – coach + sexual offender and you will get over 1 million links; Google teacher + sexual offender and you will get over 2 million links. Back in Sept, a New York teacher was found to have had a manslaughter conviction dated back to the 1970’s for killing a child and this teacher had been teaching middle school for the past two years. Parents, you need to ask your youth organizations if they perform background checks. Organizations need to be performing background checks; if they have to raise their fees to cover the costs then I’m sure the parents will not mind.

InfoCheckUSA.net will perform a 50 state Criminal and Sexual Offender background check. A background check performed only in the state that the person is coaching or instructing in is not sufficient. Many offenders will move to different states in the hopes that a comprehensive national background check will not be performed and the sad part is that they are right. We recommend that all of our clients whether youth organizations or not run a national check. InfoCheckUSA recommends the National Criminal Super Search and a county “hands-on” court level search plus a SSN Verification with address history.