Are Post Hire Background Checks Necessary?

Most companies and organizations in the USA currently do not conduct post hire background checks as part of an ongoing employment screening policy. However, some do and within their employment screening policy perform criminal background checks on current employees at a certain time interval like every three years. A private school in Pennsylvania conducts employee criminal background checks every five years as part of a youth protection program Catholic schools created in 2003. Leslie Davila, director of child and youth protection for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and her office is responsible for monitoring employee records to make sure employee background checks are current. As post hire background checks are currently not the norm in the USA there are certainly those who do have an ongoing employment screening policy. When it comes to positions that are in contact with at-risk populations it certainly makes sense to conduct post hire background checks to at least thwart future criminal activity. To read more about this subject read recent press release found at:http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2014-2-13-Post-Hire-Background-Checks.html

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