Application / Background Check
Beate
7 Posts
While I understand that the employment application may not ask questions regarding age and sex, the Background Check Authorization Form we currently use does and these are questions which need to be answered on the ON-Line screen in order to complete the Background Check request. When then should this form be handed out/completed by the applicant in order to stay in compliance? After the interview or job offer? This would certainly slow down the hiring process or we may have a person working for us who is not legal, or may even have a criminal record which could be a liability to the company, due to the turn-around time of the inquiry.
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help.
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The key is to make sure you have a procedure in place so that the people hiring the employee do not have any access to the form. The form could be filled out by the applicant, then placed in a sealed envelope, and given to the person who does the background check. (This person should not be a decision maker -- and it would even be better if this person was not part of your company, but worked for the checking service, that way there would never be any question that the decision maker had access to the information).
Then all the decision maker would ever find out is a Pass or Fail on the check.
Good Luck!!
Good Luck!