Filtration & Separations Recruiter - Background Screens During Difficult Economic Times

My name is Lisa Sprowls and I am a Filtration Recruiter. I work on many sales/ engineering/executive/ and management level positions serving the search and recruitment needs of both large and small manufacturers and distributors in the Filtration/Water & Wastewater/ Separations/and Environmental Industries.

With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.

Background Screens During Difficult Economic Times
A family member decided to sell his house to move to a warmer climate. When discussing this decision with other friends and family members, he was told that it may be difficult to sell his house because it just isn’t a seller’s market at this time. However, his point was that while it may be a difficult sellers market, it is an outstanding time to be in the buyers market! Quite a different outlook compared to the doom and gloom outlook we seem to be experiencing because of the current economic times. It switched my thinking about the current state of the job market.

We are hearing about the larger companies who are downsizing and the smaller companies that are going out of business. We have major retail stores that are cutting a large percentage of their sales staff and closing stores. The unemployment rates are extremely high as well. We also have companies that are doing a hiring freeze and not bringing in new talent. What does this mean for you? If you have that one position that needs to be filled, you have a surplus of talent out there looking to come to your company and fill that position.

Because there are so many candidates for that one position, you do need to be cautious in hiring. At this time, more than any other, you need to seriously consider background screening. The job candidates are going to be aware that you have several candidates for that one position, and they are going to try and make themselves more attractive to you in what ever way they can. If this means inflating their resume or application, they may do it.

Recent studies from several background screening companies that maintain this data indicates there are spikes in resume falsification and data during economic downturns and weak labor markets. In a recent survey of 161 human resource professionals, 55 percent of them said they have outright lies on resumes or applications. These lies are found through pre-employment background checks and reference checks. These numbers are astounding in themselves, but with this survey, 24 percent of those polled didn’t respond to the question. Even with that 24 percent out of the picture, over half found issues with their job candidates.

Resume padding isn’t the only area of concern. Criminal conviction rates are also on the rise for job candidates. A good quote we found states “The only way to be reasonably certain you have a qualified job candidate is to independently verify their qualifications. Another good reason to conduct background checks is to protect your business from negligent hiring. Courts may not only hold you responsible for what you do know, but also for what you should have known about your employees. Claiming you didn’t know will not give you much, if any, protection” – particularly if you don’t screen.

Filtration & Separations Recruiter - Background Screens During Difficult Economic Times

Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com



Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment Please visit our website at www.rsipeople.com/filtration/lisa