Employment

The pre-employment background check is becoming more and more common place. As employers work to protect their places of employment from individuals that aren’t the best for the job or could pose a dangers to others, these background checks happen to be the tool of choice. After all, your past can say a lot about the person that you are and the person that you are likely to be, too. Yet, if you don’t have anything to hide in your past, should you really worry about what happens when a background check is done on you?

You Don’t Want It

Even for many individuals that have nothing in their past to be worried about, this type of privacy invasion is enough to bother them. In most cases, you can refuse to have one done, assuming that it isn’t a legal requirement for the position with the home such as when you are working with children or in the police department. Yet, doing this could potentially stop you from being hired anyway. Someone that refuses a background check is okay, but someone else that applies for the same position with the same qualifications and passes that pre-employment background check with flying colors is more likely to obtain the position.

Another concern that many have is the fact that the information on their pre-employment background check could mistakenly provide the wrong information. Perhaps there is information on your background check that is wrong. You could be suffering without realizing why. Or, perhaps it will uncover something that is potentially harmful but shouldn’t have anything to do with the current position in question. Sometimes, information can be taken out of context by the investigator and it could, ultimately effect your position with the company. Even some information that may be illegal for the investigator to consider in the hiring process could turn up. Although they technically can not use this to not hire you, it may leave them with a bad taste in their mouths, which could sway them the other way for other reasons.

Background checks are a potential nightmare for some individuals. If you have nothing to worry about, or so you think, you should still run a background check on yourself to determine if there are any potential problems lurking there. Doing so can at least give you peace of mind. Everyone needs to know what is in their background check.

Defining questionable “employment gaps”

Questionable employment gaps are periods on a resume or job application that can’t be verified. Some of the most popular false claims used to cover employment gaps are:

– Freelancing
– Business Owner
– Fictitious Out Of Business Company

A clever and sneaky employee can get these lies past an employer who is not conducting a careful and thorough employee background screening. Most employers do not have the in-house resources to verify these claims. When an employer conducts a background check on their own they will usually only get information on the position held, dates of employment and if the candidate is eligible for rehire.

Fortunately, even for freelance and closed businesses, there is a paper trail. Genuine freelancers and business owners must apply for a fictitious business name and a business license. This is a requirement for most cities regardless of where the work will be performed. For a freelancer, a business license is required even if he or she works from home.

Unfortunately, tracking this information can be confusing and time consuming for most personnel departments and small business owners. Getting the most accurate information is usually best left to a professional pre-employment screening firm, such as Accu-Screen, Inc. They have the resources and experience to readily search and provide the most up to date and accurate information.

Questionable “employment gaps”

Employers need to be careful not to jump to conclusions because freelance and business information may not be readily verified. When this occurs, the employer should request clarification from the job applicant. An employer should ask for references from past clients, projects worked on and milestones. Most freelancers and business owners should be able to give you business references, detailed information on projects and accomplishments.

Similarly, for a situation where a business is no longer operating, a job seeker should be able to provide verification of employment. Verification can include paystubs, tax return, offer of employment letter or proof of any type of recognition received, while employed at the company.

A red flag should be raised if the job seeker can’t provide additional information to verify claims of freelancing, owning a business or a company that is no longer open for business.

Problems with employees who lie about “employment gaps”

When an “employment gap” is discovered, an employer needs to be concerned about the reasons for it. Periods of employment gaps that can’t be verified may be associated with:

– Incarceration
– Involuntary termination

Some job seekers are unlucky while others are just plain deceitful. A professional employment background screening firm, such as Accu-Screen, Inc., can help get to the bottom of these issues by obtaining the most appropriate and accurate information.

When an applicant has these issues in their past or fails to report them, an employer should proceed with caution. These issues need to be handled confidentially and with diplomacy. The issue should be addressed and clarification should be reached before a job offer is made.

The government led by Maria Dolores Cospedal has provided more than 3.1 million employment workshops in the province of Ciudad Real

Spain, July 19, 2013 – The Minister of Employment and the Economy of the regional executive, Carmen Home, said that the center of excellence that the Government of Castilla-La Mancha launched in Tomelloso by the School of Industrial Organization, will help empower businesses of mechanical and metal sectors.

Home, during a visit to Tomelloso employment workshop on home help, recalled that the development of the seven centers of excellence in our region have a funding of 2.5 million euros and help to encourage innovation in our region in each of these sectors.

Future Center of Excellence, according to the minister, is based on the Youth Employment Plan and will be dedicated to the metal sector where the province Tomelloso Real City have a very important role. In this way, noted, new companies setting up in Tomelloso will be more competitive and make the business continue to give good news to the region.

In another vein, the Minister of Employment and the Economy has stated that the program Castilla-La Mancha region of entrepreneurship, has a budget of five million euros to promote entrepreneurship projects in our region.

In this regard, he announced that the government led by Maria Dolores Cospedal launched in Tomelloso – in collaboration with the city-one of the 48 courses of senior management for entrepreneurs, with the aim of contributing to economic recovery and employment in the province, Castilla-La Mancha.

Employment and Entrepreneurship workshops

During his visit to the workshop home help that is being developed in Tomelloso (Ciudad Real), the minister said that our goal is that the ten students who are conducting this training can carry out a business initiative.

In this regard, he said employment workshops and entrepreneurship that are developing throughout the region, 25 of them in the province of Ciudad Real by 3,115,000 euros investment made by the Government of Cospedal do not end in the formative period as a Upon completion of the classes, students will receive extensive tutoring they can use to turn your business venture into a thriving business capable of generating employment.

Home has insisted that the goal from day one we set in employment workshops and entrepreneurship is to be projects that trigger the development of the regions, generate wealth and therefore jobs in our region.

He highlighted that we have always prioritized the development of services that have a career in our towns and cities, such as the case in Tomelloso home help, for which we have contributed financially with funding of 112,246 euros.

Also pointed out that education is a priority to ensure that our young people can join the labor market to achieve success from self-employment as well as the investment of more than 352 million active employment policy, in order to ensure that our region can look forward to a more promising than it did in the past.

Finally Home stressed that Tomelloso is a city of entrepreneurs being able to make the best of herself to gradually continue creating jobs and accelerating recovery in our region.

Press Contact: Consejeria de Empleo y Economia Media Relations Consejeria de Empleo y Economia Address: Avda Ireland No 14 512-212-1139 http://www.castillalamancha.es/gobierno/empleoyeconomia