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Pre-employment background screening

Build a trustworthy team by verifying your candidates’ job-related experience before you make an offer.

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  • Improve hiring quality

    Learn about candidates’ employment history to find people who align with your goals.

  • Maintain workplace safety

    Filter out potential threats to your staff and your brand’s reputation.

  • Prevent negligent hiring

    Be proactive in your hiring process to avoid lawsuits and other legal action.

Why screening before you hire matters

  1. Pre-employment background screenings are critical tools for employers, and vital for helping prevent fraud and other illegal acts that can bring legal problems later.
  2. Losses due to employee negligence, accidents, theft, and fraud are on the increase, and negligent hiring statutes apply in most states.
  3. Companies can and will be held liable for the willful misconduct of their employees if courts determine they were negligent in their hiring and retention.

A screening experience built around you

Order pre-employment screenings online, 24/7, with products you can customize to your needs. Our web-based software is full-featured and easy to use, so you can streamline your whole screening process.

We provide free on-site training for local clients and free telephone training for everyone.

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    QuickApp™

    Let your applicant do the work. One emailed link collects every required disclosure and their personal information, saving time and reducing errors.

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    Preformatted disclosures

    Adverse action, contemporaneous notice, and identity theft remedy notices are ready with one click.

Common questions

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Why Conduct A Background Check During A Pre-Employment Screening?

Pre-employment screening is not a sign of mistrust or an invasion of privacy, but rather, an important step in protecting your company from the risks that come with an untrustworthy employee. Employers cannot rely on resumes alone to determine which candidates will make good employees. 

According to the National Association of Professional Background Screeners, 56 percent of applicants’ resumes contain one or more significant discrepancies. 

Simply having a background check policy in place encourages applicants to be more forthcoming in their resumes and interviews. While a pre-employment screening policy does not guarantee that all “bad” applicants will be weeded out, it does provide employers with the hard data they need to help make informed hiring decisions.

What Is Negligent Hiring?
If an employee harms someone on the job, his employer can be charged with negligent hiring if a court determines the employer knew or should have known through a background check the employee was dangerous. Employers are increasingly being held responsible for negligent hiring, and more than 70% of employers involved in negligent hiring cases lose their lawsuits.
How Can I Avoid Being Accused Of Negligent Hiring?

Employers can show that they practice the due diligence required to avoid negligent hiring by having solid pre-employment screening practices in place. Most pre-employment screening programs include a criminal background search conducted at the court for each place the candidate has lived for the last seven years. 

Employers should also verify work history at each company for which the applicant has worked in the last seven years. All degrees and licenses claimed by the applicant should also be verified. These simple steps may be enough to show that an employer took reasonable precautions before hiring an applicant.

What Do I Need To Conduct A Background Check?
Once you have completed MacData’s new account application, you are able to order background checks using our user-friendly, web-based software system. Employers also have requirements under the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act as well as some state consumer reporting laws. Those requirements are covered in answers to other FAQ’s listed on this page.
Do I Need An Applicant’s Authorization To Conduct A Background Check?
Yes. A disclosure to your applicant that you are going to procure a background check is required under the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Under the FCRA, the disclosure must be made using a separate document that consists solely of the disclosure statement and may also include authorization language.

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Let’s get you set up.

Give us a call or send an email and we’ll get your account ready in no time. No deposit, no monthly fee, and free training if you need it.

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