What It Is & Why It Is Important

What It Is

Pre-Employment Screening is a process that enables employers to verify vital background information about potential employees. This information can include things like a criminal background information check, verification of identity, licenses, and professional designations, and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR). (The Tools ACBS Provides)

Why It Is Important

Thorough due diligence is difficult – even for the most conscientious employers. More than one in five applicants misrepresent their credentials. The law limits what employers can ask. A rise in defamation suits against employers hampers your ability to obtain meaningful information when checking references.

Yet employers have a legal responsibility to conduct thorough “due diligence” on the people they hire. The legal doctrine of “Negligent Hiring” says that some facts in an applicant’s background should eliminate them from consideration. If an incident occurs, employers can be held responsible because they should have known.

Professional Pre-Employment Screening reduces an organization’s liability. The Fair Credit Reporting Act provides limited legal immunity to organizations that utilize third party, pre-employment screening firms.