Count The Cost
For small businesses, the recruitment process is generally a quick and easy process.
It usually involves a small advert in a local paper, receiving of around 10, 15 or maybe even 20 applications. An hour or two may be taken up sifting out the unsuitable applicants and conducting a CV check, and you may spend an afternoon interviewing the best candidates. After maybe half an hour to refine your list of prospective employees, there would possibly be another hour to interview the final few candidates and make the decision. This process can be quite involving, but compared to a larger company it is not particularly costly or time consuming.
However, for medium to large businesses, the process can be both time consuming and expensive. Some figures suggest that employing the wrong person can cost a company up to £10,000, so going through some sort of employment screening process is essential. No company in its right mind would welcome this kind of financial loss.
This does prompt the question of how do you ensure that you are hiring the right person? As an employer, an interview process can only tell you so much. Interviews do give an employer an opportunity to assess a person's character. Unfortunately, they do not guarantee that everything on their CV is accurate. An effective way to prove that a person is bona fide and is being truthful on their CV is to have background checks conducted by PeopleChecking. We can perform cost effective qualification checks, education verification and professional membership checking to give you peace of mind when advertising a vacancy.
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