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Criminal Background Check
I used to absolutely hate doing criminal background checks. Although I run a business, I basically believe that my employees have a right to their privacy. Although I would sometimes have to check criminal records for insurance purposes, I would avoid it whenever I could. Then one day, I hired an ex-felon without knowing it.
On the surface, he seemed really nice. Looking back in retrospect, maybe he was too nice. He knew just how to charm everyone, and said the perfect thing in every situation. At first, everything was going smoothly. The customers loved him, and most of his coworkers got along with him very well. Then stuff started to go missing. I initially suspected another worker, someone who I knew was facing eviction and desperate for money. I had almost fired her, but then the hidden camera finally picked up a shot of him stealing money from the drawer. He had been too smooth for me to catch him up to that point, but finally I caught him.
If I had done a criminal background check to begin with, it would have saved me a lot of time, money, and inconvenience, and stopped me from suspecting an innocent woman to boot! I could have done a cheap criminal background check as a matter of course. A lot of other people in my business do it, and it has become standard practice in quite a few industries. Nonetheless, I decided to trust my gut instincts instead of doing a search. I used to think of myself as a very good judge of character, but my judgment seems to have let me down.
Nowadays, I always do a criminal background check before I hire someone. As soon as I fired that guy, as a matter of fact, the first thing that I did was to research companies that did criminal check searches. Apparently, they are not all the same. Most of them have records from every state, but not all of them have good nationwide records as well, not to mention access to law enforcement in other countries. Essentially, the more information you can get in your criminal background check, the better. If you do not use the best service, you might get incomplete info, and that can lead to you not finding out if someone has been convicted. Trust me, it is worth paying a bit more money to get the best service.
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