Onboard faster

Some background checks can take as long as two weeks to go through. In today’s climate, when there are more job applicants than openings, a slow hiring process can mean losing your candidates to your competitors. When background checks involve manual data input, or depend on your prospective hires taking a call from an unknown number in order to formally agree to the process, you slow the process down. When technology leverages the communication types that your applicants actually use – for example, text messaging – you speed up the process and make it less of a strain on all involved. 

Save your hiring managers time

While some background check services require your hiring managers to manually load information, this does not need to be the case. But when technology can tailor an integration between screenings and your other HR systems, such as ATS/HRIS/ERP, you minimize the amount of time that your hiring managers take overseeing the process. Background checks should be automated, not just as a service but also as software.

Keep Personal Data Secure

Each third-party resource involved in a background check decreases the security of your employees’ personal data. With a software solution dedicated to handling everything screening related at once, you can keep data secure and protected from data breaches and abusive bots. This is critical to keep your liability limited, but it does even more work: by showing your prospective applicants the care with which you treat their personal information, you use background screenings as an opportunity to build a culture of trust. 

Background screening is a useful check to ensure that both sides of a hiring process abide by expectations of honesty and integrity. While most employers consider it a one-time checkmark, strategic hiring managers see the value in ongoing monitoring: rather than periodically running your employees through a background screening to catch what you may have missed, consistent monitoring finds irregularities before they become issues. By promoting a consistent approach to screenings, companies find that they create a culture of consistent transparency and trust.