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Why screen your applicants?
Screening applicants makes good business sense.
An organization needs qualified individuals to be successful, and applicant screening
is the best way to ensure that prospective employees are truthful and well-suited to the job. It
also gives your current employees the increased confidence that their work environment
will continue to be good.
Screening applicants helps you avoid risks.
No one can tell you exactly how an applicant will perform in the future, but by
performing a comprehensive background check you can take a big step toward heading
off potential problems. Applicant screening represents a good-faith effort on your
part to minimize the chances of hiring a troublesome or possibly dangerous employee,
and helps shield you from claims of liability.
Screening applicants is cost-effective.
Applicant screening is becoming more important than ever, and now it’s more cost-effective
than ever. Because we specialize in applicant screening and have developed highly
effective and extraordinarily efficient tools, we deliver best-in-class services at a
very affordable cost. In fact, we believe it would be impossible to perform background
checks less expensively even if you did it yourself.
- Approximately 20% of applicants LIE about their experience. They don’t exaggerate, they just outright lie.
- Almost 25% of all resumés contain at least 1 major fabrication.
- Almost 30% of applicants overstate their responsibilities and qualifications.
- Approximately 10% lie about having a criminal record. Consider that the average length of prison time served for all crimes is approximately 7 years, including rape, robbery, theft, and murder.
- More than 10% of applicants misrepresent their reasons for leaving their past employers.
- Employee theft or embezzlement causes 30% of new business failures.
- Internal theft is 15 times more prevalent than external theft.
- 7% of rapes, 8% of robberies, and 16 percent of assaults occur at work.
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Our applicant screening services help you make decisions based on fact, not speculation.
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