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>There are two kinds of background checks. IBM. Wells Fargo. Frontier Airlines. T-Mobile. Experian. Daimler Chrysler. These are some of the companies listed i
by forgetsusername 11y ago
>There are two kinds of background checks.
IBM. Wells Fargo. Frontier Airlines. T-Mobile. Experian. Daimler Chrysler.
These are some of the companies listed in the article. They are some of the biggest in the world. They don't seem to me to be the type of companies that take the latter approach to recruitment, possibly opening themselves up to discrimination legal issues.
- alistairSH 11y agoThey probably do both. The official background check may come back clean. But, as soon as the HR guy or hiring manager put his name through Google, they see "So and so convicted of dealing crack."
- ensignavenger 11y agoSurely one of the first things he does when contacting a company is to warn them that a web search will find these things, but that he has been exonerated, and to provide documentation as to such? I just find it incredibly sad that the people conducting these background checks at such large companies are so utterly incompetent.
- alistairSH 11y agoI'm not sure I agree that this is a sign of incompetence. Instead, it's likely a case of extreme risk aversion. Hiring somebody is risky and expensive. The cost for getting it wrong is quite high. At best, it costs the team money in lost productivity. At worst, the new hire actually is a criminal (or whatever). Given two otherwise equal applicants, it's only prudent to hire the one that doesn't have nasty Google results.
- itgoon 11y agoIt may have been contracting agencies. They can be pretty uneven, in my experience.