Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
Background checks are a necessary tool in today’s sometimes violent and certainly litigious society. If a rug installation company was to hire an installer, who eventually rapes and kills a client, then the rug installation company would be held libel for the animals actions. This example is one that happens all to often.
A background check may solve this problem in many situations. Withjust a name and address a company can vet a new hire to see of that person has a criminal background and has ever committed a violent crime.
Church Executive Magazine reports one in eight background checks conducted on volunteers or prospective employees through LifeWay Christian Resources found a criminal history that might have kept an individual from working or volunteering at a church!
This is where people who are supposed to be held at a higher standard, but unfortunately predators have no boundaries.
“While most screenings returned clean records or only minor traffic offenses, in the report 450 churches requested more than 5,000 background checks on volunteers and prospective employees. LifeWay found 80 serious felony offenses and more than 600 people had some type of criminal history that may have disqualified them from volunteering or working at a church.”
“While vital, experts say sex-offender registries alone aren’t very effective in spotting sexual predators. They list only those convicted of a crime. Because victims typically are reluctant to come forward and with statutes of limitations on molestation laws in many states, only an estimated 10 percent of sexual predators are brought to justice.”
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker discussing background checks
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3 users commented in " One In Eight Applicants Denied Positions Because Of Criminal History "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackOnly one in eight, demand a recount! Maybe they are like the ones in Putnam, a ton of arrest no convictions, hope they are that generous with me, as i was truly not guilty.
TCB
You can not make a decision to hire and employee or Volunteer based on arrest records. Innocent until proven guilty in the U.S.A. I am an employee of a background check company named Integrascan. It is diligent to use a reputable company to perform your background check, The company listed in this article is not the best source and sells many other things not related to a true criminal background check.
make sure the company you choose to run your Background Checks displays the coverage of the searches on their home page.
Don’t get scammed by the do it yourself detective companies , they are all scams.
Terry Sweet
Integrascan
It might also be good to know if the background check will include criminal records in Canada.
If the one Vh1 did on Ryan Jenkins had included Canada it would have shown that “In his hometown of Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 on an unspecified assault charge.”
Maybe he would never have been hired for Vh1’s “Nitwit Chooses a Millionaire Hubby” TV show (or whatever they call it).
And perhaps he would not have murdered and dismembered his ex-wife as he was accused of doing before running from the law and committing suicide a few days ago.
After appearing on the TV show, another domestic assault charge was placed against Jenkins in Las Vegas. So it’s pretty obvious that this was the kind of guy who was going to continue to hurt women anyway until someone stopped him. But maybe, maybe if that background check had been done in Canada in the first place, the chips would not have fallen the way they did - with the brutal murder of a young woman.
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