Have you been assigned to do pre employment screening for your company? Many companies don't even do any type of employee screening and leave themselves open to unwanted employees. Your company and it employees need to be safe in their environment from individual that could harm them. Use the following tips to uncover unwanted employees. Make sure you employee application obtains plenty of information to start your background check. Missing information that helps you learn more about the applicant will make your checking more difficult. Look over your application form and create one that will help you in your background check. Your first step is to look into a person Social Security. The information you get from this check will give you history on a person addresses and if they have used other names. This employment screening check will also reveal whether the Social number belongs to this individual. Now you can start the employment criminal background check. And at the same time you can check the person driving record. These two searches will reveal more about a person's integrity and honesty. Once you get some information using Social Security, compare the results with the person's application. If there is some inconsistence, ask the applicant to explain the differences. Do not always assume that they are trying to hide something. Many time they just forget many things that they have changed from their past or don't think it's important in their application. The next thing to do is a pre-employment credit check. This part of the employment screening is where you look at credit report, which is not the typical credit report. You are not allowed by law to see their actual credit report with all of their financial data. You will see their report with many items blanked out. If you want to do the employment criminal background check, you will need a birth date. You will not be able to get this on your initial employment application. If you decide to hire this person, you can get their birth date. Make employment contingent on them passing their criminal check. Make sure you get past supervisor and co-worker names. You can get more information from these individuals than you can from Human Resources. The Human Resource Department can only give a limited amount of information to avoid being sued. There you have it a good outline to start your employment screening. You first start with a good application form. Move on to do the Social Security check and then do a driver's license and employment criminal background check. End with a credit check. If you want more screening consider using a pre employment screening services.