Employee Background Check Key Terms

For hiring managers, believing that an employee has not lied about his or her educational background, work experience or general reputation comes only after performing a comprehensive employee background check. These pre-employment screening techniques allow a company to make well-informed decisions about a prospective employee's eligibility for high-performing work and his or her overall trustworthiness. Streamline your company's hiring functions by knowing some key facts and terms related to employee background checks.

Negligent hiring

Employers are guilty of negligent hiring when they knowingly hire an unqualified worker who, in the course of his or her employment, ends up injuring a third party.
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Business Owner's Tool Kit explains how performing employee background checks helps you avoid negligent hiring allegations. It also sets forth the five elements that must be proved in order for a third party to sustain a claim of negligent hiring against a company or individual contractor.

Consumer reports

Consumer reports provide information on a prospective employee's credit standing, general character and way of living.
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At Privacy Rights Clearing House you'll find out which laws employee background checks are subject to. Find out how a consumer report differs from an investigative consumer report.

NCIC

NCIC stands for the National Crime Information Center, the government database providing information to criminal justice personnel investigating crimes.
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The Federation American Scientists not only discusses the NCIC data base in detail, it provides information on access and use constraints for agencies performing employee background checks through criminal records.

County criminal records check

When you undertake a county criminal records check, you are searching through records maintained at a county court house, perhaps the most common type of employee background check.
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A Matter of Fact discusses the kinds of information you're likely to find when performing a county criminal records check, as well as practical advice on how to perform these searches and also the sources of the information contained in these records.

Employment background screening

It's quite common for HR managers today to perform an employment background screening, a thorough search into a job applicant's education, work experience and even personal history.
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If you're not sure whether employment background screening is necessary, read the discussion at Accuscreen. You'll find out about reasons for performing these searches that you may never have considered. Accuscreen also explains the legal considerations behind employment background screening.

Verifications

When HR managers talk about an applicant's verifications, they are referring to specific efforts they take to confirm all of the information an individual has put on a job application.
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At American Background, you'll find out what the five most typical verifications HR managers perform are and why they are important in the hiring process.