[Small business owners have a number of things to deal with on a daily basis. | If you run a small business, you have a number of issue to deal with every day.] [It is now a fact of life that the small business owner, unlike the days of old, now has to deal with bad hires and the potential of business loss and even bankruptcy. | In addition to all the problems of payroll, legalities, inventory, returns and warranties, you also now have to deal with the fact that a bad hire can hurt more than your reputation.]
Stories abound regarding the nice sweet accounting clerk that Joe’s Pizza hired…only to learn months later that she had forged a signature on a bank application and took out a loan in the company’s name, leaving Joe with a major debt and legal bills galore. The reality now is that you are truly risking your business as well as your financial future if you hire a total stranger without doing a background check - even if only a local police and DMV check. Quite often these, if derogatory will lead you to do a more detailed search or simply not consider the candidate for employment.
[If you add it to the checklist after interviewing a candidate and assign the function to admin or HR staff you’ll be on your way to absorbing this function into your daily business process. | Once you begin to make it a normal part of the screening process prior to hiring, you will be on your way to including it as a vital element in the hiring process.]
The next issue to consider is that a personal background on an individual is not the only kind of background check you may need to install in your business practices. We often, especially when buying or ordering something online, take someone’s word for their business experience or honesty. This is especially true in regard to those firms who wish to buy from you and do so on a credit account. Most small businesses that have dealt with out-of-state firms - either in buying or selling services - all say they have had numerous bad business experiences, ranging from unpaid purchases that were chargeback on a credit card to firms that only accepted a bank transfer and then reneged on the delivery or shipped something other than what was ordered. The bottom line here is that you have to protect yourself. The best way to do this is to make it a formalized part of your documentation of purchase orders placed to include the name and phone number of references received prior to ordering.
Okay, let’s say that you acknowledge that it’s critical to do these types of background searches on both individuals and businesses. How, then should find a person safely and with the least expense. The obvious answer here, especially when dealing with out-of-state data is to get professional assistance. The easiest and most economical way to accomplish this is via an online people finder or online address search firm. They are both effective and relatively economical.
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Author Resource:-> Arlan Gorshich is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to perform a people search and best tactics for using a people finder that work fast!
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