The Importance Of Employee Background Check In The HR Practice

Employee background check is one of the HR practice and it is one of the step in recruitment process as said by the Jyothi, Venkatesh and Rao (2007) . Who to do the employee background check and why to do the background check were in the table 1.1. Employee background checks were performed by the employers on the job applicants. These checks are traditionally administered by a government agency for a nominal fee, but can also be administered by other companies. Background checks can be expensive depending on the information requested.

Table 1.1: Employee Background Check

Why

• Hiring process as ethical

• To protect brand name of the company

• Saves cost and time

• HR professionals can focus on the core activities When

• After placing the employee

Background checks are different for different industries but some common background check records were conducted for a job applicant those are like criminal checks, reference checks, certification checks, financial checks, bank checks, frauds, credit checks, driving and other personal related checks. Compared to the past five years the background checks were increasingly done there are several reasons for performing these checks. Now a day’s these employee background checks were frequently done by the companies because to make the recruitment process so ethical and also to recruit the right candidate. Companies are performing these to hire right candidate among the all job applicants. If this check was not performed correctly then company is responsible for negligent hiring of the candidates into the organization. Employers are timelier for checking all the related information from that information they prepare the report and based on the report the hiring process continuous. Employers check the following information of an applicant as shown in table 1.2. In 2000 a survey results that 86% of the employers performing background checks are done for gathering employment history, 81% of the time on criminal records, 78% of the time on drug screening and 71% of the reference checks were performed by the employers on the employee background checks