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Why Background Checks Are More Important than Ever Before

If you’re a business owner or hiring manager, you already know how difficult it can be to find great job candidates these days. That’s especially true when your company has limited resources to screen potential hires during the hiring process. Unfortunately, you also know that you have little margin of error when it comes to making the right hiring choice – and the wrong choice could harm your business in a multitude of ways. That’s why background checks are more important than ever, and why you need professional background check services to protect your firm.

Job Candidates Often Lie

Most of us like to believe that people are generally honest, especially when it comes to seeking a new job. That’s not the case, though. According to some estimates, about half of all applicants lie on their resumes. Roughly a third lie about important things like job experience, their educational achievements, or even their core skills. Many will lie about past criminal convictions to avoid being disqualified from the interview process.

It’s easy to understand why they lie, of course. When a person needs to pay bills and support a family, they’ll often do just about anything to secure employment. That doesn’t excuse the lies, mind you, but it does help to explain why so many applicants fill their resumes and interviews with either gross exaggerations or outright falsehoods.

Your Company’s Liability

While it’s easy to understand those candidates’ motivation for lying, you cannot afford to allow yourself to be fooled. Those seemingly innocent falsehoods could place your business interests at risk, harm your company’s bottom line, or even create unwanted legal liability. For example:

  • A failure to properly screen your job candidates could result in your hiring someone with a history of violence, placing your customers and employees at risk of harm.
  • That could create legal liability for you, especially if the harm was the result of a failure to do proper due diligence during the hiring process.
  • An employee who lied about qualifications could be a production liability or cause other problems with your operations.
  • If your new hire was ineligible to work in the United States and you hired him or her anyway, it could place you in violation of federal or state law.

Background Checks Protect Your Interests

The bottom line is simple: you need proper background checks to protect your personal and professional interests. And because we live in an era of broad regulations and constant threat of litigation, those background checks are more important than they’ve ever been. But who can you turn to when you need competent job candidate screenings? The answer is obvious: International Security Services.

At ISS, we are committed to helping you fulfill your duty to properly screen every job candidate before you hire them. We provide the comprehensive screening you need to protect your workers, mitigate risks to your business, and ensure that the people you hire are exactly who you expect them to be. To learn more about how our background checks can help secure your business interests, contact International Security Services – New York City’s dedicated security experts.

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George Kozhar

George Kozhar is a respected security professional, licensed private investigator, and founder of International Security Services (ISS) - New York City’s dedicated security experts since 1999. Mr. Kozhar and his team provide a full array of private and business investigative services in the U.S. and overseas, VIP executive protection, armed and unarmed security guard services and training, and Fire and Life Safety Director training through the company’s Fire Science Institute.

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August 10th, 2022

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Your site’s individualized property evaluation report contains information and analysis that you need to properly manage your site’s security needs. That information includes detailed analysis of the crime rate in your area, site access and parking protocols, and existing security infrastructure. Interior inspection includes analysis of emergency exits, fire suppression capabilities, and alarm infrastructure for emergencies. Exterior inspection includes analysis of structural defects, property lighting, and potential vulnerabilities in building access.

In addition to those inspections, our analysis also considered environmental factors, potential risks from older trees, outside property maintenance, and nearby crime that may overflow to the area. We also examined emergency response planning, including fire evacuation protocols and information supplied to residents about proper evacuation process.

 

Pressing Suggestions


We highly suggest a camera placement along this driveway, as the overhead cameras in the back parking lot may not capture all makes, models, and license plates of cars entering in and out based on the angle they are recording from. The best camera placement would be at the green circle closest to the sidewalk/street.
The common area is easily accessible, but based on the angle that cameras are set at the front lot, anyone can enter the basement common area concealing the side of their face that is facing the camera. This is not to say that the camera arrangement should be changed, but it is highly recommended to have coverage in this common area as the common area is on a lower floor not visible from the sidewalk.


However, a few fundamental problems exist when it comes to access control of the back parking (a big territory). Even though only two issues have ever occurred there, the wide-open access point to that lot may need to be corrected sooner than later as there is a significant uptick in crime in the 62nd precinct.

Furthermore, there are two fundamental surveillance blind spots along the driveway leading to the back parking lot and every common area.

Lastly, however unlikely it may seem, tenants should have resources and a physical guide for situations that may require an evacuation. Whether it be a flood or fire, each tenant should know how to use a fire extinguisher and where to evacuate to during a flood regardless of their proximity to a shoreline.


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