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Employment Screening

Who Are The Best Candidates For The Job?
Turnover in retail and hospitality is never ending. Hiring new employees can be a daunting and time consuming process. No matter how good your Human Resources skills may be, it's difficult to know if a job candidate is telling you the whole truth. Professional employment screening by The Zellman Group takes the guesswork out of hiring, while saving you the costs of excessive turnover. In addition, our thorough screening process can help minimize loss and prevent negligent hiring lawsuits.

The Zellman Group Provides Employment Screening Answers...Quickly
The highly flexible screening process begins with pre-employment candidate surveys and offers a broad range of background searches including, social security number, criminal record, pre-employment credit report, employment and education verification, and more. All easily accessible through simple web-based reports.

Options
• Pre-employment candidate surveys
• Basic candidate survey
• Management level survey
• Professional background searches
• Social Security Number Trace
• County Criminal Record Search
• CRIM Off Trace Package
• Pre-Employment Credit Report
• Driving Record Search
• Employment and Education
Verification


 
Benefits
• No initiation or set up fees keep your costs low

• Fast turnaround time

• Increased hit rates

• Superior customer service and responsive support simplifies your hiring process

FAQ'S
• Social security numbers are one of the most fraudulent areas of personal information.

• Employers can be held liable for the damaging actions of their employees, if, based
on the employee’s previous actions, he or she should have been disqualified for the
position.

• A common resume fraud is overstatement of education.

• Running social security number traces in conjunction with county criminal record
searches is proven to significantly increase hit rates.

Answering Your Questions About Job Candidates
The Zellman Group is run by retail executives with an intimate knowledge of loss prevention, audit, and retail and hospitality operations. Our employment screening practice offers accurate and up-to-date applicant dossiers to support your hiring decisions through two distinct areas of discovery: Pre-employment candidate surveys and professional background searches.

Pre-Employment Candidate Surveys
• Paper and pencil scored surveys reveal the candidate’s views on honesty, integrity,
work ethic, and substance abuse.

• A management level survey assesses a candidate’s overall disposition and affinity for challenge, identifying a correctly between job opening and applicant.

Professional Background Searches
Our strategic afflliation with Acxiom provides you a broad range of background searches and enables a custom-created screening program that meets your needs. Importantly, you are not forced to rely solely on industry databases, we go direct to source data (i.e. courts) to get the most accurate and current information available.

Social Security Number Trace
• Verify applicant’s social security number.

• Detect fraudulent social security numbers.

• Flag numbers not issued by the Social Security Administration or filed with death
claims.

• Identify previous residential addresses of an applicant for up to seven years.

County Criminal Record Search
• Reveal serious and disqualifying information seldom volunteered by an applicant.

• Protect against negligent hiring.

• Minimize internal theft of company assets, trade secrets, or technologies.

• Provide a safe, productive work environment by reducing the threat of problem
situations, harassment, or violence in the workplace.

• Preserve the integrity and image of your business.

CRIM Off Trace Package
(TRUSST – Tracking Residences Using Social Security Trace)

• Proven to significantly increase hit, or record, ratios by revealing previous addresses perhaps intentionally undisclosed by applicants.

• In conjunction with running a social security trace, the subject’s previous and current addresses are pulled from the report to determine which geographic counties to check for criminal records.

Pre-Employment Credit Report
• Conducted in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

• Insight into an applicant’s ability to meet regular financial obligations and to any judgments, collections, or lawsuits that are in the public record.

• Verify previous employment and past address information.

Driving Record Search
• Learn applicant’s driving history, driver’s license status, and background confirmation.

• Essential for staff who will be sent on the road.

Employment And Education Verification
• Tap valuable resources to compile a complete profile of your applicant.

• Delivers key information about an applicant’s work history, productivity, and overall work ethic.

• Determine if an applicant is properly educated and qualified to do the job.
Employee Screening Brochure (PDF)

Did you know?
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports one-third of all business failures are caused by employee theft and related activity.

Why Choose The Zellman Group?

• Wide assortment of vehicles to screen and check potential employees ensures you cover all the angles.

• Fast turnaround on searches is enabled by our web-based reporting tools, giving you instant visibility to results and keeping your hiring process moving.

• Strategic affi liation with the top background search form in the country gives you quick access – at the source level – to any number of candidate records.

For more information please contact us here.
 
 
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Port Washington, New York 11050
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