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Re: What should an employer be able to have an employee or potential employee submit
So milquetoast and wallflowers are the best of the best? Hardly, they're job security people. The don't share knowledge at work, and they're scared to death to try something new and different. I'd hire the more 'colorful' people if I were you. Innovation is often the key to greater company success.
I am not doing anything to stop them from doing just that. All I am doing is trying to weed through job candidates to find the best one for my purposes. And since their pay comes out of my budget, I am going to use every means available to find the very best of the best. :shrug:
Well see, here's the thing...I wouldn't even take note of a possession charge older than 3 years on a person's background check. An assault charge, however, is a deal breaker especially if it's in concert with domestic violence (I might reconsider if it was a REALLY old charge and it was a bar fight situation). Any kind of sexual offense is going to find their file in the trash; I don't care if it was just urinating in public. It's too much of a liability to hire someone who has that kind of record if something were to happen while they were at work. It would immediately come back on our organization that we knew he was a sex offender. You can blame the litigious nature of our society for that one, not the background check.
It's not my concern how society treats a candidate. It's my concern to pick the best candidate possible while considering things like liability issues. Criminal background checks will ALWAYS be done as long as I am in charge at work.
So milquetoast and wallflowers are the best of the best? Hardly, they're job security people. The don't share knowledge at work, and they're scared to death to try something new and different. I'd hire the more 'colorful' people if I were you. Innovation is often the key to greater company success.