Pre Employment Background Checks

Excellent for checking criminal records, falsified educational credentials and other serious liabilities, background checks only reveal information when an individual has been caught being deceitful. Of equal or greater value are underlying attitudes, as well as actions at which an applicant has not been caught, to most fully protect your organization against negligent hiring lawsuits and to assure you are hiring reliable, ethical, hard-working employees.

Knowing this information about the people you hire is absolutely essential because a business can be held liable for accidents and crimes committed by its employees.

To protect your company and minimize risk, Profiles International offers a two-step system to ensure you minimize the risk of making a bad hire.

The Step One Survey II is a cost effective pre-screening alternative to an extensive battery of background checks.

• Theft
• Fraud
• Inventory shrinkage
• Unexcused absences
• Tardiness
• Drug use
• Clocking in or out for other employees
• Revealing confidential information and/or trade secrets to outsiders
• Carelessness
• Sub-par job performance
• Job-hopping
• Unauthorized use of the Internet
• Using company email for personal use
• Disclosing private and restricted computer data

Job applicants can take the SOS II anywhere in the world there is access to the Internet or using a paper/pencil booklet method. Results are instantly available over the Internet when you need to make quick decisions.

"Step One Survey II has proven to be a useful tool in gauging employee work ethic, integrity and propensity to substance abuse. We use the test as part of the interview process. The face-to-face interview, reference checks and Step One test all play equal roles in determining the success of a candidate. We have determined that Step One is very accurate in identifying potential problem areas."

"I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you how delighted we are with the Step One Survey. After interviewing over a dozen applicants we found the Step One Survey to be a useful inexpensive tool to help us screen applicants. The survey is beneficial for asking all the questions we should have and then suggesting follow up questions in areas that need more explanation."

"Over a three and half year period, our company's turnover was reduced by 49 percent because we used the Step One Survey II. The savings we realized by hiring fewer people saved us almost a quarter of a million dollars. We started using Step One Survey in January. The first year, turnover was high. The second and third years, it dropped substantially. Overall, we hired 33 percent fewer employees. We calculate that turnover costs $7,100 per employee. Since we hired 35 fewer people in 2002 and 2003, we saved $248,500."