{"id":352,"date":"2006-10-10T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=352"},"modified":"2006-10-10T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T15:36:50","slug":"background-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/background-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written about this topic <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=258\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>. It seems every year we encounter some issue involving background verifications with a candidate or employee. I was hopeful that 2006 was going to break this streak. This morning, I can sadly state, the streak is alive.<\/p>\n<p>We have a customer who has hired an employee for a position and ran the background check to find some misdemeanors in the employee&#8217;s background.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of their employment is being determined right now, but it serves as a reminder &#8211; run background verifications <strong>before<\/strong> a candidate joins your company.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for referrals, may I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifiedcredentials.com\" target=\"_blank\">Verified Credentials<\/a>? We have found them to be one of the most thorough organizations in that industry.<\/p>\n<p>For our sake, please employ their services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written about this topic before. It seems every year we encounter some issue involving background verifications with a candidate or employee. I was hopeful that 2006 was going to break this streak. This morning, I can sadly state, the streak is alive. We have a customer who has hired an employee for a position and ran the background check to find some misdemeanors in the employee&#8217;s background. The outcome of their employment is being determined right now, but it serves as a reminder &#8211; run background verifications before a candidate joins your company. If you are looking for referrals, may I suggest Verified Credentials? We have found them to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/background-checks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-5G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":431,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/verification-statistics\/","url_meta":{"origin":352,"position":0},"title":"Verification Statistics","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"November 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"You have seen multiple posts from us here at The Hire Sense on background verification and it's importance in the hiring process. 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