Personal Background Check to Improve Your Odds

Background check is a standard practice in different applications. When you apply for a job, cross international border, apply for a passport / business license or open a bank account, different kinds of background checks may be performed to check your eligibility for the application. Most often, people come across the background check when they go through the recruitment process.

Conducting a personal background check is always advantageous, especially when you are doing it to gain some advantage in job hunting. Self-background check for employment may give you some advantage in job market as you already know what an employer is going to see about you.

Self background check offers two major advantages. (a) You already get to know what information a potential employer may see about you and how can you handle it if there is something wrong. (b) You get to review your background records in advance. If your name has appeared in some records out of error, you can fix it before it hampers your chances of getting the job.

Sometimes, there may be past records such as police arrest, traffic violation, bad credit record, etc. that you have forgotten or ignored. That is not all, even if your past records are clean, there can simply be an error in your records that may disqualify you from the recruitment process.

Employers run background checks to ensure that their employees have a clean background so that potential issues compliance or operational issue may be avoided.

If an applicant has a criminal history or is a habitual sex offender, he/she may create problems at the workplace and employers want to avoid them, so they run the background check.

Following is the list of elements that employers look for in background checks:

• Identity verification (social security number trace)
• Verification of educational credentials
• Verification of past employments
• Credit report
• Domestic watch lists
• Criminal records
• Evidences of drug use
• Supporting extreme ideology
• Conviction and arrests
• Sexual offenses
• References and associates