Employee Screening and Pre-employment Background Checks

Do your employees operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment as part of their jobs? Do they go into your customers homes? Are they in contact with children or disabled people? What liability does your company or agency have in regards to acts by your employees? As a private company, you can be put out of business by the actions of just one employee. As a governmental agency, poor hiring practices can increase insurance costs and cast a negative light on all you do. That’s why employee screening and pre-employment background checks are so important in today’s employment environment. Employment background checks, employee screening and pre-employment background checks have become one of the best ways for employers to avoid exposure. Pre-employment screening services from ERS can protect your company or agency from liability damages and a negligent hiring suit.

ERS Services

Employment References & Verification

Employer's Reference Source provides high quality background checks nationwide. Checking employment references and verifying previous employment can be a time consuming activity for an employer or HR department. Slight embellishments or outright lying on a resume can cause significant problems for a company after a hire is made.[more info]

Criminal Background Search & Investigation Checks

There is not one source for criminal history records of prospective hires. Local, state and federal courts must be individually checked in order to protect you. There is no national criminal history record on the internet. [more info]

Driving History

Pre-employment background checks can expose poor driving records, which may have a negative impact on insurance costs and any court settlements. A school district would be remiss if it hired a school bus driver with an extensive record for unsafe driving and speeding violations in another state. [more info]

Credit History

It just makes sense to hire a bookkeeper who has a good credit history. A person who cannot balance their own budget is not a person you want handling cash and books for your company. That’s why employee background checks provide you with information to make a proper hiring decision.[more info]

Education Verification

Surveys have discovered that over 30% of all resumes misrepresent job history and education levels. Do you want to hire a nurse or architect who has a certificate from a diploma mill? ERS pre-employment background checks can save your company from the embarrassment of having key management exposed as misrepresenting their backgrounds.[more info]

Specialty Services & Searches

HHS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL: This search provides a list of excluded individuals & entities for the healthcare industry.
WASHINGTON STATE PATROL: The WSP keeps its own database of criminal activity. Many records are available here.
HOMELAND SECURITY / PATRIOT ACT: Records from Immigration & Naturalization, FBI and AFT are included in this search.
SEX OFFENDER CHECK: Not all registered sex offenders maintain required contact with the various agencies tracking their whereabouts. You probably don’t want them showing up as an employee for your company.