Background Investigations and Other Selection Methods

• Two main reasons to check backgrounds:

  • To verify the applicant’s information
  • To uncover damaging information.
• The reasons to check employees backgorund is to:

  1. Avoid Hiring Negligence
  2. Resume Exaggeration
  3. Criminal Record
  4. Honesty
  5. Level of accomplishment
• Polygraph - is a device that measures physiological changes like increased perspiration.
• Polygrapgh Jurisdiction

  These include firms with national defense or security contracts, nuclear power-related contracts:

  1. hiring private security personnel,
  2. hiring persons with access to drugs,
  3. doing ongoing investigations involving economic loss or injury to an employer’s business, such as a theft.
• Graphology

  • is the use of handwriting analysis to determine the writer’s basic personality traits.
  • It’s used based on handwriting samples to design follow-up interviews
• Physical Exams

  • To verify that the applicant meets the job’s physical requirements, to discover any medical limitations.
  • You should consider in placement, and to establish a baseline for future workers’ compensation claims.
• Sustance Abuse Screening

  • Urine test
  • Hair folicle