Find honest employees using Profiles Employee Background Checks and the Step One Survey II honesty and integrity test

A national organization of fraud examiners estimates the average loss to business from employee fraud and theft at $9 per employee, per day. That amounts to about $2,000 per employee. Employees steal in many ways. While some take money and property, other forms of employee theft may take more subtle forms such as wasting time, taking unauthorized time off, Internet surfing, or punching a time clock for another employee.

Employee integrity is difficult to determine from a résumé

• Inflated titles
• Inaccurate dates to cover up job hopping or gaps of employment
• Unfinished degrees, inflated education or "purchased" degrees that do not mean anything
• Inflated salaries
• Inflated accomplishments
• Out and out lies in regards to specific roles and duties

According to University of Florida criminologist, Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D., who directs the National Retail Security Survey, losses from employee theft have reached record levels and that total inventory shrinkage cost U.S. retailers $40.5 billion in 2006 up from $31.3 billion the year before. Further 82% of all retailers experience customer theft.

Employee Theft of Sensitive Data

With the huge advancement in technology over recent years, data theft is the new 'invisible' crime, and poses a real threat to all businesses. Because employees have access to vast amounts of data, that sensitive data is vulnerable in the hands of a dishonest employee. There are two main forms of data theft, the first with the intention of stealing someone's identity, and the second, the theft of information.

According to an article by the Sydney Morning Herald (2/18/2004), two-thirds of British professionals admit stealing commercially sensitive documents and data when they leave a company.

Among white-collar workers, 69.6 percent said they had taken some form of intellectual property from their employers when they left, the survey for ibas, a computer forensics specialist, found. Email address books, sales proposals and presentations, customer databases and contact details were the most common kinds of data taken. Ibas said businesses might be losing commercially sensitive information worth billions of dollars. "It's happening in all businesses and through all levels of the company, from lowly admin staff right up to senior board level".

Profiles Step One Survey II identifies and predicts problematic employee theft issues at all levels of the organization by pre screening prospective employees for patterns in behavior.

Additionally, Profiles Step One Survey II, a proven honesty and integrity test, helps companies find honest employees. It identifies job applicants that are honest, drug free, reliable, and hard working. StepOne Survey II gives you critical information for making hiring decisions you won’t regret.

"We are in the investigation phase of a branch theft problem that involved five or six employees. Losses could exceed $100,000. None of these suspects were given the Step One at hiring. We are definitely sure that we will not hire another employee without the help of the Step One Survey. If it is only one tool that helped us reduce theft, the cost to benefit ratio proves it to be a very small investment that can produce big returns."

"I've been receiving very important feedback from the Step One Survey screening program. It has enabled me to learn insightful information, prior to employment, about an individual’s attitudes as they relate to honesty/integrity, substance abuse, reliability, and work ethic that ordinarily wouldn't be discovered until after someone is employed – then it's too late! Also, the direct admission portion provides open-ended interview questions that make the interview more structured and effective."