Pre Employment Background Screening

Find honest employees using the Step One Survey II honesty and integrity test

A national organization of fraud examiners estimates the average loss to business from employee fraud and theft at $9 per employee, per day. That amounts to about $2,000 per employee. Employees steal in many ways. While some take money and property, other forms of employee theft may take more subtle forms such as wasting time, taking unauthorized time off, Internet surfing, or punching a time clock for another employee.

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Employee integrity is difficult to determine from a résumé

Estimates, that nearly half of the résumés you receive have inaccuracies or out-and-out fraudulent information, should alert you to the potential for integrity problems.

According to a recent survey by ResumeDoctor.com, recruiters and hiring managers stated the most common misleading information being put on résumés is:

• Inflated titles
• Inaccurate dates to cover up job hopping or gaps of employment
• Unfinished degrees, inflated education or "purchased" degrees that do not mean anything
• Inflated salaries Inflated accomplishments
• Out and out lies in regards to specific roles and duties

The Profiles Step One Survey II also identifies employee integrity issues prior to making a hiring decision. More about pre employment screening & other human resource management solutions to employee theft here.

Find honest employees with the Step One Survey II honesty and integrity test

The latest National Retail Security Survey reports that losses from employee theft have reached record levels and that total inventory shrinkage cost U.S. retailers $31.3 billion last year including $15 billion or a staggering 48% from employee theft. The employee theft figure is the highest in the 10 year history of the survey.

According to University of Florida criminologist, Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D., who directs the National Retail Security Survey, the results indicate that in 2002, retailers lost 1.75 percent of their total annual sales to shrink, up from 1.69 percent the prior year.

Hollinger said that the results of the survey should serve as a wake-up call to the retail industry that shrinkage, and employee theft in particular, continues to be a multi-billion dollar source of revenue loss.

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Employee Theft of Sensitive Data

With the huge advancement in technology over recent years, data theft is the new 'invisible' crime, and poses a real threat to all businesses. Because employees have access to vast amounts of data, that sensitive data is vulnerable in the hands of a dishonest employee. There are two main forms of data theft, the first with the intention of stealing someone's identity, and the second, the theft of information.

According to an article by the Sydney Morning Herald (2/18/2004), two-thirds of British professionals admit stealing commercially sensitive documents and data when they leave a company.

Among white-collar workers, 69.6 percent said they had taken some form of intellectual property from their employers when they left, the survey for ibas, a computer forensics specialist, found. Email address books, sales proposals and presentations, customer databases and contact details were the most common kinds of data taken. Ibas said businesses might be losing commercially sensitive information worth billions of dollars. "It's happening in all businesses and through all levels of the company, from lowly admin staff right up to senior board level".

Profiles Step One Survey II identifies and predicts problematic employee theft issues at all levels of the organization by pre screening prospective employees for patterns in behavior. Additionally, Profiles Step One Survey II, a proven honesty and integrity test, helps companies find honest employees. It identifies job applicants that are honest, drug free, reliable, and hard working. StepOne Survey II gives you critical information for making hiring decisions you won't regret.

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Profiles Step One Survey II prescreening survey Profiles Step One Survey II prescreening survey is a pre-employment screening tool designed for executives and hourly employees to assess the abilities of job candidates regarding personal integrity, substance abuse, reliability, and work ethic. Technical Specs: Solves these challenges: Employees Who Steal Money, Property and/or Time, Expensive Employee Turnover, Low Energy or Non-Productive Employees, Use of Illegal Substances, Tardiness, Unexcused Absences, Unauthorized Internet Use, Abuse of Email Used For: Reducing employment theft and fraud. Reducing loss of confidential information, trade secrets, and computer data. Reducing absenteeism and tardiness. Reducing lost time due to unauthorized computer, Internet, and email usage. Selecting honest, hard-working employees who show up for work on time. Measures: Personal Integrity, Reliability, Work Ethic, Substance Abuse Time to Take: 20 minutes Report Types: 2 Different Reports Administration: Online or Pencil / Paper Results Turnaround: Immediately More about Profiles Step One Survey II here