A pre-employment background Check is Crucial for Employees Working Remotely
Performing a background check is crucial in these remote working times to ensure all the information provided on the resume about their experience, educational qualifications, and other qualities are listed truthfully and the candidate is trustworthy enough to bring on board. In these pandemic times, hiring employees remotely and providing work from home or remote working opportunities is the new normal. How can you make sure that you are hiring the right candidate for the position? What is the best practice for hiring remotely? For a fast-growing business, it is critical to hire the right candidate for fast and secure business functionality. Startups and growing companies cannot afford to waste money and time on a candidate with discrepancies. Hiring someone solely based on what he has shown in the resume can often backfire and can bring misfortune to the business.
Let’s see the risks we can avoid if we perform thorough pre-employment background checks before hiring a candidate.
Data Abuse or Loss
In the case of an employee working from the office, the employer had a better hold on the employee’s access to the company’s confidential data. The control over that is comparatively less when the employee is working from home. The employer is forced to entrust the employees and giving complete access to confidential information. The chance of misusing the data deliberately or accidentally is higher when working remotely. The data can be on their personal devices and anyone can access the confidential information from anywhere in this case. Thus, this working from home scenario can be a platform for possible data leaks and security system breaches. A proper background check process includes criminal background checks as well, which brings to light if the candidate has or had any kind of criminal connections.
Employee Drug or Alcohol Use
Consider, the candidate you just hired and working from home is addicted to drugs or alcohol. You won’t be having any idea about this if you have not done a background verification or medical check undertaken before you signed in on the offer letter. Such employees could be a reason to bring prominent business loss or nuisance to co-workers such as low productivity, taking too many leaves unwantedly, abusing colleagues, high medical compensations, performance failure and among others. It is difficult to understand that side of an employee without a background check while working from home. Employee drug screening can point out such addiction at the beginning stage of employment and can prevent a bad hire.
Company Reputation
A proper background check of employees will ensure the company’s reputation and safety. A company is made of the employees working for it. Employees with bad reputations can affect companies’ reputations and credibility. Background checks help to avoid hiring such individuals.
Cost of Hiring
The hiring or recruitment process needs a good amount of money as well as quality time and effort. When there is a need for a resource, the employer with the help of the HR manager makes opportunity advertisements, once selected the training period expense and time spent for that, and the expense to bring the employee on-board. In the case of remote working, the company has to supply them with the required technology and access to an internal system. If these employees quit or terminated, then there will be another turnover expense to replace them. So, when wrong recruitment takes place, it creates unwanted expenses and loss of productivity and clients. The pre-employment check helps to enlighten the employers regarding the employment history and ensures the credibility and truthfulness of the employee. The background screening process helps in hiring the right candidate for the remote working option and maximizes the employee retention rate.
Whenever recruitment takes place, whether, in person or remotely, background checks should be considered as essential as the interview. While hiring an employee remotely, that too in the absence of face-to-face interviews, background checks have an even more fundamental role. Check out the background check services offered by CredCV for employers to get the right candidates for your company.
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