Are you the hiring Manager? Do you do employment screening before you hire someone? Not all companies have the resources and talent to do these types of screening. For the safety of your company and the employee prospective employee background checks are important. Use these tips to hone your skills in doing background checking.

Start with a good application form. This form should be designed by someone knowledgeable in background checks. It is this form that will give you your start in background checking. You need the right applicant’s answers before starting your screening.

The first thing you need to do is a Social Security Check. This is a powerful employment screening tactic. Order this check to authenticate the applicant’s Social Security. This check can reveal all past addresses and aliases. Many people steal other people’s Social Security number.

After you have the information from the Social, you can start the employment criminal background check. You can also start checking the individual's driving record. These two searches will give a better idea of the prospective historical data.

Once you have completed a variety of different information, you can match it up with the information you have on the application form. If there is a difference, then ask the applicant to explain this difference. It can be that there is a logical explanation and there was no intention to hide historical information.

Now, you can do a credit check as part of the employment screening. The credit report you get will be for employment decisions and this report will be different from a financial institution looking for credit worthiness. You cannot use a standard credit report for making employment decision.

To do an employment criminal background check you will need the applicant’s birth date. The law does not permit you to ask for a birth date on the initial employment application. What you have to do is to hire the person and make his employment status based on passing the criminal check.

One thing most screeners miss is getting past co-workers names and phone numbers. Usually they will get supervisor’s names but also fail to get their phone numbers. So get these names and phone numbers so that you can call and get more information on the prospective individual than would be provided by Human Resources.

Now you have collected a lot of information by doing this employment screening background check. Your start for this check is your application form. Don’t use a standard application form. Use one create by an expert in background checking. Remember to start by checking their Social Security, Criminal Record, Drivers license, then Credit report. If you want a more complete applicant screening consider using a pre employment screening services.