If you are searching around in this economy for a job, you have surely been required to submit to a pre-employment background check. This checks your criminal history and your general background information to ensure what you have put on your employment application is in fact truthful, accurate, and complete. Without knowing what will potentially show up, you may not remember to put down everything. This could be a huge disadvantage in this volatile job market.
You could continue to guess on what to put down on your applications, or you can actually find out for yourself what will show up when they run it. Large corporations with the aide of city, state, and federal agencies have put together very large information databases which contain public records which are accessed whenever a free background check is performed. It’s actually not until the past few years that you could access this as a public citizen.
You can go to a few free online criminal records databases. Unfortunately, at this moment there is no nationwide database that contains records from all over the country, but you can still use a few websites, such as The Federal Bureau of Prison’s site and the National Sex Offender Registry. You can also use the department of motor vehicles to find out if the person has ever been arrested for reckless driving.There are a few more free services available, but the problem is that most of them only offer a general overview and don’t give any details of the person’s offenses. It’s very important to get as much information as you can, if you want to make the right decisions.
To avoid future legal problems you should make sure that your candidate has signed a comprehensive waiver allowing you to obtain any private information that you may require. It is best to use a statement prepared by a legal expert for this purpose but it is standard procedure so it should not be a problem.
Regardless of whether you are searching for your own background or for someone else, you will be able to find all public information pertaining to anything they have done criminally. This information often goes back 7 plus years. Basically speaking, there is no more information that can be hidden!