First of all let us understand what it means to having a Background check?
It is a kind of validation to confirm that the claims made regarding a person’s criminal record, education, employment history, and other activities that happened in the past in order to confirm their validity. Whether you are applying for a job, looking for a new place to move in or purchasing a valuable and dangerous weapons like a Gun, pistol, Rifle etc.
There are many kinds of Background verification types used by firms and organisations for our understanding we have listed below some common checks like:
1. Universal Background Checks
2. Employment Background Checks
3. Credit Background Checks
4. Criminal Background Checks
5. Personal Background Checks
6. Professional Licenses Background Checks
1. Universal background checks
A universal check is being done with the help of National Instant Background Check System (NICS) to determine whether or not a person can be eligible to get a weapon on his name.
A person who has done any kind of serious crime like Murder, Burglary or Arson are not eligible for getting any weapon’s on their name as they have already used it for the bad purpose and chances are there they might use it for the same again in the future too.
2. Employment Background checks
Employer can make the working environment safer and reduce the threat of hiring a wrong person by doing a background check of employee.
They are usually conducted after interview before recruiting the person to make sure he is clean from any kind of frauds or evil deed in the past this makes the organisation safer and grow faster
3. Credit Background check
Credit background check is like a ratio and shows how someone has managed his debts and payments to bills in the past also called a credit report. It is a standard check it shows how well he has managed to pay back the money and if he is able to get a loan in the future too. If you go to a bank you will be asked to show your credit score if you want to get loan from the bank.
4. Criminal Background checks
It is being conducted at times when a person or organisation needs to know about the major criminal activity of the person including criminal activity like violence or sex crime, fraud or felony conviction before making a decision regarding employment, adoption and firearm purchase.
For the perfect criminal check the following are required to be check perfectly
a. Country criminal data base.
b. Domestic and global terrorist watch list.
c. National criminal database.
d. Sex offender registries.
e. Federal and state criminal records.
If they are checked perfectly (a-e stated above) then you can be sure that you are going to hire the right guy without any criminal record.
5. Personal background checks
If you want your chances of being hired into one of the most reputed companies in your field you are required to make your personal background all clean, because in the process of recruitment one major stage is of personal checks that shows all your record like Criminal record , traffic or sex offender database.
So if you want your dream job or want your loan to be approved at the first request make sure you get your personal background check before going for any kind of interview or requesting a loan from bank.
6. Professional Licenses Background Checks
It is very important check in the selection process it is so because the license shows that the person has the required knowledge, experience and the required skills for performing the task in the field.
License is required to be checked because the license may be expired or may be fake too in other industry it not be a big harm but in industries like Medical, Engineering, Banking where the bigger things are at risk like the life’s of the people in Hospital, people living in the buildings, the car that we drive, the electrical equipment’s that use daily, the financial resources like money which are taken away by the businessman and actually never returned it is our money that we have deposited by saving and working hard for hours.