Why Conduct Background Check?

By: Andrew Williams


Background Check is the most common tool a company, an individual or an organization use to conduct searches for a certain individual. It's a process in which specifics of an individual's past are revealed for the purposes of employment or simply obtaining access to classified information.

For the part of the company, background checks are done to verify the informations provided by their applicants. Background checks also help confirm dates of attendance and degrees or certifications earned, and can also provide specific information about prior employment. Applicant's history will go a long way in predicting their future and a thorough employee background check during the pre employment screening process helps you see both.

Background check yourself. It can reveal information that was either mistakenly or intentionally omitted. This will help prevent identity theft earlier. For example, some ‘people searches’ look for aliases that may lead some to think that you are someone else. If you have ever received a bill addressed to someone else, with a similar name, a collection agency may have ran a search and sent the bill to possible aliases in an attempt to locate a debtor. You should inform the credit reporting agencies to update your information and to correct possible errors.

Attorneys also conduct history checking for the purpose of contesting the testimony of their opponents. These checking could help expose kinds of things that would assail the credibility of a person.

Online daters also try to check who they are dating to protect them from any serious injuries that their dates might inflict on them. They try to search and investigate whether their pair is already married, immoral or deceitful. A lot of online daters experience heartaches brought by their dishonest matches. Even those who are married couples hire private investigators in confirming their spouse’s activities if they are committing infidelity.

When children are involved, background checking is also implemented. A parent would do anything not to entrust their children to someone whom they could not rely. Child abductions and abuse is one of the major issues nowadays. Parents could not allow their children go to school who have records of teachers who inflicts pain on their students as a form of punishment. They would probably not also permit their children stay on a school which lacks security. Both parents most often prefer someone from their relatives, whom they could send their kids with.

Terrorism is one of the biggest violence that harms a country. Background verification must be conducted to those who comes in and comes out of a certain country. This would help distinguish whether an individual is likely to perform an act of terrorism.

Basically, when things go wrong and are out of hands, preventive measures are better to execute. If someone has taken advantage of another and to keep away from danger is the best reason for background checking.

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Andrew Williams
Author of Why Conduct a Background Check
Why Conduct a Background Check