Background Screening
Maintaining a proactive loss prevention program includes conducting pre-employment screening on all prospective associates. You should do everything possible to ensure that you do not hire someone with a criminal record or other history that would increase your risk of loss by their hands. When you conduct reasonable background checks, you lower your risk of hiring a potential thief. We recommend the following pre-employment checks.
* Criminal background checks (an absolute must).
* Credit checks for all managers/supervisors and for those line associates who will have access to cash. (You may want to consider a threshold age, as some younger associates do not have established credit ratings.)
* Motor vehicle driving checks for those applicants who will operate company vehicles, to include operating their own vehicle while on company time (check with your insurance carrier - they may do this for you free of charge).
Ace Hardware Retail Loss Prevention's vendor-partner, Acxiom Information Security Services, has been helping Ace retailers make informed hiring choices since 1988.
If an applicant uses a false Social Security Number, Acxiom will let you know. If an applicant is deceptive about a criminal record, Acxiom will find out. If your applicant has lied about educational or professional experience, Acxiom will uncover the truth. When you turn to Acxiom Information Security Services, you have a partner in your hiring process.
There is a truism that goes, "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior." Ensure that you’re making the most informed hiring decision possible - your bottom line depends on it.
Contact Mandy Toncar, Acxiom's national account representative to Ace Hardware, at 800-853-3228 Ext. 57671, or e-mail Mandy at Mandy.Toncar@acxiom.com for detailed information about the services provided by Acxiom. Click on the Acxiom logo for a link to their web site.
