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Please advise how does the background checks that a potential employer would perform works.
Would they check these mugshot based online websites for the criminal record check or would they go with the state/federal/local government based records?
Background checks are outsourced. They simply ask for counties you've lived and then check the public records and report those. I think they are usually only concerned with misdemeanors and felonies. The only googling would probably be done by HR.
Background checks are outsourced. They simply ask for counties you've lived and then check the public records and report those. I think they are usually only concerned with misdemeanors and felonies. The only googling would probably be done by HR.
Yes. Bona fide "background checks" would return results of criminal convictions. Googling might catch any kind of public record, which might include the police arrest blotter--which is often reported in the local papers.
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A large number of American men have already been arrested by the time they’re in their early 20s, according to a new report.
The study, published on Monday in the journal Crime & Delinquency, found that nearly half (49 percent) of African-American men and 40 percent of white men have been arrested by the age of 23, “which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities,” according to a press release.
The research was based on an analysis of national survey data from 1997 to 2008 of teenagers and young adults. The arrests included minor crimes like truancy as well as serious violent crimes. It excluded traffic offenses.
Bottom line, so long as the information is just that "information" with no claim to be legitimate or accurate, you WILL NEVER get that information removed from the internet or search functions. You can get it to not show up, but that's only good until someone sells it or buys it elsewhere and it propagates all over gain. So long as it exists somewhere on some server or file, it can pop up. You must learn (and learn real quick) the difference between official records and information versus raw data and information.
As an employer, there are regulations both on the federal level and state levels that provides rules for running background checks. Many states have placed restriction on the use of unauthenticated data broker services. Unfortunately, so many people have cried and whined for a free and unencumbered internet. No rules, no restriction; let us have all the information someone makes available without anyone saying "no". The philosophy that whats on the internet is free for all to access has a dark side and this is one of them. Although I must use a legitimate background screening service, thousands of employers routinely resort to running people through data brokers and the results can easily lead to you not being hired or terminated for information you thought was private or invisible. And, you may never know what I know about you or how I came upon that information.
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