Source: REMODELING Magazine

By Victoria Downing

Hiring the right people is a tough job. Every prospective employee works hard to present a fantastic first impression. Someone who doesn't frequently hire can be fooled into hiring the wrong person. It's important to use every tool to dig beneath the enthusiastic veneer to get to the real person underneath. One tool increasingly used by business owners is a background check.

Bob Weickgenannt, president of Starcom Design/Build, Columbia, Md., recently began incorporating background checks as a standard procedure. “There are two reasons to invest in background checks: to protect our clients and to protect ourselves,” Weickgenannt says.

It's your duty as a business owner to protect your clients. Your staff have access to the entire house and any valuables in it, and they come into regular contact with all family members.

It's also your duty to protect your company and its profits. Anyone coming into a company can negatively affect it. Obviously, a bookkeeper or office manager has access to the detailed financial information of the company as well as the systems used to control money and thus has the opportunity to embezzle. It's easy to see why these people should have a stellar background.

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