Executive Employment Screening

Executive Employment Screening - Imporant Information for Employers when hiring Executive level Employees

Executives hired in top positions, including the C-suite of any business will have a major impact on your company’s image to the shareholders, the media and all employees down the ranks within your company. It is imperative to do a through employment background check on executives before making an employment offer to someone that will have access to sensitive corporate information including financial records, company projections, employee records, etc.

Background checks are not limited to criminal records as most people may think. A full background check can include many aspects of an applicant’s history, including criminal records, credit reports, degree verification, reference checks, bankruptcy records, drug testing, credential verifications, suits filed against a person, driving records, workman’s compensation claims, national wants and warrants searches and more.

Executive employees often have a history of scattered employment locations making it paramount to run prior address checks to confirm locations that they may have lived in, and this will assist in determining the states and counties to run criminal record as well as civil suit checks in.

Employers may not always require credit reports during the employment background check process for regular employees, but it is of great importance to run credit reports when it comes to someone that will handle company finances, especially at the executive level. Credit reports provide insight into a person’s character and sense of responsibility. Bad credit can be an indicator of a person mishandling company finances and even future embezzlement.

Embezzlement can happen at all levels within a company but can be especially damaging at the executive level due to the access to greater funds and influence. Statisticsbrain.com published that the amount stolen annually from businesses by employees is over $50 Billion. This re-emphasizes the importance of extensive background checks.

Degree verification is another important part of executive employment screening. Unfortunately, job applicants often embellish their work history and credentials, so running degree and credential verification reports can help confirm the candidates educational background.

Reference checks can also provide insight into a candidate’s character and how well they work along with other people, managers and sub-ordinates. While candidates will usually provide references that will sing their praises, it is not always the case and one can still learn quite a bit, even from a good reference. In today’s business environment, many executives have lived and worked abroad, making it important to run background checks in other countries as well. International background checks are available through most overseas countries that provide an extra layer of information on a candidate.