Employment Screening Basics: Managing Today’s Workforce Presented By: HirEase, Inc. David J. Luebke Chief Operations Officer

Disclaimer The information contained in this presentation does not represent legal advice and should not be used for the purpose of forming conclusions or making decisions that impact specific workforce scenarios. You are advised to consult your own legal professional for legislation that is applicable to your company and governed by the state(s) in which your company does business.

Little Known Workforce Facts

Little Known Facts Applicant Screening Is Critical For Today’s Workforce Hires Gone Bad On average, in U.S. businesses, at least half of all new hires “don’t work out”. *Source: Fortune Magazine It costs $7,000 to replace a salaried employee, $10,000 to replace a mid-level employee and $40,000 to replace a senior executive. *Source: Recruiting Times In 1999, employers lost 60% of negligent hiring/supervision jury trials. *Source: The Reish & Luftman Practical Guide to Employment Law

Little Known Facts Applicant Screening Is Critical For Today’s Workforce Little White Lies 34% of all application forms contain outright lies about experience, education and ability to perform essential functions. *Source: The Wall Street Journal As many as 30% of job seekers exaggerate their accomplishments and about 10% seriously misrepresent their background. *Source: The Complete Reference Checking Book, by Edward Adler 9% of job applicants falsely claimed they had a college degree or jobs that didn’t exist. *Source: Resume Inflation: Two Wrongs May Mean No Rights, by Barbara Kat Repa

Little Known Facts Applicant Screening Is Critical For Today’s Workforce When Nobody’s Watching 33% of all applicants admit to being tempted to steal from an employer. *Source: Security Magazine 30% of all business failures are caused by employee theft. *Source: US Chamber of Commerce 14.7% of all applicants admit to theft of merchandise from an employer. *Source: Reid Psychological Systems (Don’t Hire a Crook, Dennis DeMay)

Little Known Facts Applicant Screening Is Critical For Today’s Workforce “Going Postal” On-the-job violence costs employers $36 BILLION each year. *Source: Workplace Violence Research Institute The average award in a workplace violence lawsuit exceeds $1 million per case. *Source: Workplace Violence Research Institute 57% of respondents reported that a violent incident occurred in their workplace between 1/95 and 7/99. *Source: Society of Human Resource Management, Workplace Violence Study

Employment Screening Companies & Criminal Record Searches

How An Employment Screening Company Helps Quality Information & Service Knows the critical information to capture in an ideal background check Understands your sense of urgency in getting accurate results fast Creates budget friendly packages without compromising data integrity or timeliness of results Taps into a national network of 14K researchers for the most reliable data available Provides simple, easy to read reporting tools Uses technology to provide immediate access to data

Criminal Record Searches Good! Better! Best! Good! –Perform a social security number trace that will provide previous addresses and aliases –Perform county level criminal record checks of all the names and residences provided by the social security trace going back at least 7 years of county residences

Criminal Record Searches Good! Better! Best! Better! Includes a “good background check” and also includes: –Criminal records check in all the counties of employment –3 rd criminal records database (Multi-State) –Federal criminal searches in all associated jurisdictions –National Wants & Warrants search

Criminal Record Searches Good! Better! Best! Best! Includes a “better background check” and also includes: –Department of Corrections search –Sex Offenders Registry list search