Pre Employment Background Screening, Drug Testing, & Personality Assessments.
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Transcript of Pre Employment Background Screening, Drug Testing, & Personality Assessments.
ROG Screening & Selection
Mark Lotstein – President
20+ years of convenience and petroleum industry experience
Human ResourcesScanning & Back Office SoftwareOperational Systems & Controls
Pre Employment Screening - Facts
Everyone has had employees steal from them!
Who runs background checks today – less than 50% of non governmental businesses.
Pre Employment Background Checks
Three reasons why every employer should be running a pre employment background check?
1. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that employee theft may cost American businesses as much as $50 billion on an annual basis. The Chamber has also reported that 30 percent of small business failure is caused by employee theft and estimates that 75 percent of all employees steal once and one-half of those steal a second time.
2. Negligent Hiring Lawsuits – this means that if you hire someone who harms a customer or employee and it then found out that the person has a prior history of assault or battery the business owner can be held liable.
3. "Employers are hot targets for theft because workers know their systems, controls and weaknesses, and they can bide their time waiting for the right opportunity," The Wall Street Journal.
Pre Employment Background Checks
The three reasons why most employers don’t run background checks!
1. They think that they are difficult to run, take too much time and cost too much money
2. They are not sure of the rules and regulations / they do not know they are allowed to run background checks
3. Owners don’t realize just how effective they are in identifying people with criminal histories – Thousands of repeat offenders would never be hired if a background check was run on them.
The Truth about Pre Employment Background
Checks A background check via ROG can be run securely online in less
then five minutes and at a very reasonable cost.
Many initial results can be returned in less than one hour and comprehensive search results within one to three days so there is no significant delay in making a hiring decision.
What is the cost of making a bad hiring decision▪ Monetary loss of what was stolen (may or may not ever be recovered)▪ Time lost to dealing with the police and courts▪ Expense of hiring a new employee and training them▪ Scheduling be it you or your other staff filling in shifts until a replacement is
hired
Screening Levels By Position Each area of a business and in some cases
each position requires a different background screen to be run to properly review an applicant for the sake of today’s conversation we will be reviewing: Retail Office Transport Dealer
Search Component Discussion
Social Security NumberName & AddressNationwide Criminal (44 states)Nationwide Sex OffenderState / County SearchMVREmploymentCredential / LicensingEducationWorkers CompensationCredit CheckDrug TestingPersonality Assessments
Retail
Clerk Screen – A basic nationwide criminal search
Manager Screen – A basic nationwide criminal search plus possible credit check and employment history
Supervisor Screen – A basic nationwide criminal check, employment history, and MVR
Office
These searches depend much more on the role that the applicant would be filling and could be as simple as a basic employee screen for a receptionist to a full criminal, education, drug testing, and personality assessment for a new management level applicant.
Transport
Someone driving a company vehicle that is potentially loaded with thousands of gallons of gasoline need to be fully reviewed – lets take a minute to think about the recent airplane incident that occurred in Europe.
CriminalMVRDrug TestingPersonality Assessment
DOT mandated random drug testing and post accident testing
Consortium or not
Dealer
A dealer is an investment in time and money and to do everything possible to ensure this is a good use of both is very important
Criminal – nationwide criminal with state / county if necessary
Credit – available with FICO score
Drug Testing
Drug testing has many options and ways it can be addressed
Saliva – Very limited value of information as the drugs only show up for a short period of time but least expensive and easiest to do onsite
Urine – Industry standard with a longer information / window for testing
Hair – The best method possible but also the most expensive and usually longest to return results
Questions:
Onsite or at a testing facility
MRO or Not
Personality Assessments
What is a personality assessment and how can it help you?
Hiring decisions / Role within the organization Better internal communication
Examples of Assessments Offered:
Honesty & Integrity
Customer Service
Skills & Capabilities
Integration Within An Organization
How to choose the correct vendor
Services offered – Do they have the full range of searches you are looking for or will you need to use multiple vendors?
Insights and information – Will they just sell you searches or help you design a program and make sure you are aware of state and nationwide laws that change over time as well as new search options?
Customer service – US based help desk staffed with a team who really knows the screening industry and can give you insightful feedback and help.
Turnaround time – While a quick turnaround is important for some searches remember sometimes quality data / information takes some time and effort.
Price – Being competitive is important but also don’t forget you get what you pay for and often the cheapest price point gives you the least useful information.