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Sunday, September 7, 2008

 

Free and Paid Background Checks For Your Business

You will find many companies online that offer free background checks on their websites. Background checks used for employment reasons often require accurate data. Free background checks are possible, but you should consider using a quality criminal background check company that requires a nominal fee. This is because the free background check companies often do not verify data that they have collected.

With a paid service the SSN (Social Security Number) is verified and can reveal more complete and accurate background check information about an individual. When using a service that compares both the SSN number and the driver license number of the issuing state for performing the background check for pre-employment screening or criminal background checks of any type you can be rest assured that the data collected is more accurate. Free background check companies often do not compare or verify data in this manner so the information can often contain flaws. When using the background check for employment when reviewing a new potential employee this could prevent you from hiring someone that would be an asset to your company. Just because the data was inaccurate you lose a person that may have been employee of the year one day.

You could use Google's search on the name of the individual first to assess a possible need for the background check. However looking up John Smith is obviously going to lead to more results then you care to sift through. To save time and money, because time is money...It is in a company's best interest to both perform a free and paid background check. This only takes a matter of a few minutes and will save money in the long run just because you will know you have hired the right person for the job.

When your company is in an industry where trade secrets are of great importance then your should definitely consider having a background check completed. You can learn valuable information like job history, criminal records, bankruptcy, etc. So the best advice is to do both a free background check and a paid background check to achieve the highest accuracy on the information you need to make the correct decision.

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