Just one minor piece of advice - see if you can specify what information you do and do not want to see. It's hard to unsee it once you've seen it.
There's a lot of data they can easily include like credit score, bankruptcies, convictions, etc. Some of this information may be relevant - you may not want an employee with burglary or drug convictions going into customer houses unsupervised (or driving your vehicles or handling your expensive equipment). Or you may not want to see some of this information. If they include it in the report, you may have a hard time arguing in the future that you didn't look at it. I would argue if you're not going to use it in hiring decisions, maybe you don't want to see it. On the other hand, if it would look bad in some future lawsuit trying to explain why you hired this guy despite XYZ, then maybe you did want to see XYZ. Some places go out of their way to hire ex cons, like Felony Franks, home of the Misdemeanor Weiner: https://felonyfranks.com/ Jon Oliver has done some shows on the difficulties facing released prisoners trying to re-enter society and hold a job. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Yuchasz Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:32 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] background checks for potential employees We are looking to hire a new installer. It was recommended since he / she will be going into customer homes we should require them to pass a background check. Those of you that have done this what service did you use for the background check? Any additional feedback on this process? Thanks, Brandon
