Most of the organizations today perform employee screening “only” as part of its pre-hire process. The assumption is this mitigates the risk the company might have to face in terms of cost of bad hires, fraudulent employees and such. Just a one-time employee screening – is that enough? Jobs today require much more scrutiny than that in the yester years. Sometimes we do not realize the huge necessity to identify risk an employee brings to the work and the impact, it causes. Post-employment checks are an effective tool to reduce the employer’s liability and increase the overall confidence in the workforce integrity. Every organization needs to revisit its employee screening strategies and policies and include post-hire employee screening on a regular basis.
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