The popularity of pre-employment background checks has been increasing rapidly. Employers have found that these investigations help to decrease theft in the workplace and negligent hiring law suits along with often lowering the cost of some forms of insurance. Smaller businesses, which often do not conduct background checks, are the ones that would benefit from them the most because many offenders are attracted to these environments. Since the cost of professional background checks are often too much for these employers, those with tarnished records have found that it is easy to slip in undetected.
Many smaller businesses that do conduct some form of background checks on potential employers do so themselves through public records, but this method can be time consuming. BackgroundNow.com has recently launched a new “DIY Search Tool” feature which will make looking into an applicant’s past more efficient and easier for those who do not wish to hire others to handle such matters.
This new feature will connect users directly to the federal government’s registry for all federal criminal, civil, bankruptcy and tax cases. The websites for various county courthouses, many of which offer free searches of criminal, civil and traffic court cases, can be accessed through this site The registry charges users 8-cents per search conducted, but the DIY background check feature on BackgroundNow.com is available free of charge.
Lee Hill, CEO of Informed Networks Corporation, which runs BackgroundNow.com, says that “there is quite a bit of secrecy and misunderstanding surrounding background checks. In part because it was long the domain of private investigators who kept the tricks of the trade to themselves. Also locating the correct source of information can be a complex matter.” He went on to say that “the DIY Search Tool gives access to information needed to get the job done.”
BackgroundNow’s new search feature may give employers access to all the records that are needed to conduct a background check internally, but its not foolproof. Although the federal databases used cover many jurisdictions in most states, they are still incomplete.
The search tool uses the most complete source of records in the country, the National Crime Information Center, which is managed by the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services, but misdemeanors are rarely included in it. In many cases, county and even state records are never sent into the FBI. Although use of the DIY background check feature is free, monthly membership to the website is $9.95.
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This is a very useful and and a intresting post.Some even use the scial networking sites to check on the background