With global terrorization rising around the world, US companies are now compelled to verify the backgrounds of all foreign-born job candidates and employees who manage and staff foreign offices. Companies use Internet-based background screening systems that are favored by many international clients.
Job candidates are required to enter their professional and personal data into a questionnaire at a secure Web site exclusively designed for each client. The companies receive the questionnaire over the online information-gathering system. This allows their screening specialists to proceed immediately while remaining in compliance with privacy laws that require candidates' authorization on the transfer of data across international jurisdictions. When investigators have finished authenticating the data, client reports are transferred online or by e-mail using an encrypted personal detail form (PDF) file. Clients also can review report progress on a real-time basis, from anywhere in the world.
With an increase in careless hiring, withholding, and denigration lawsuits, spiraling recruitment, and an upsurge in workplace violence and theft, employers feel they need to know as much as possible about every employee. Surveys report that 30 percent to 50 percent of job aspirants either lie or overstate on applications and during interviews, and the need to investigate and confirm application data is more important than ever. The need is felt to appropriately balance an employer's 'need to know' with an employee's privacy and equal employment opportunity rights. This has led to the introduction of many federal and state laws in order to regulate the type and amount of information that employers may obtain. Therefore, employers that are involved in carrying out background investigations must be fully aware of each law's specific requirements. Care should also be taken to tailor their employment practices accordingly or else risk the financial throb of stiff penalties.
National background checks keep a record of employment-history dates, details from former employers, academic qualifications and credential gap analysis. It also keeps a check on resume inconsistency, public records searches and confirmation of references. The basic aim of this check is to protect the interest of the nation at large. It is conducted to safeguard the peace and integrity of a nation.
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