Protect Your Family with a Home Help Screening
Posted: Jan 03, 2011 11:09 am
Many families, for instance ones where both parents work, find it convenient to hire home help. They may enlist the assistance of babysitters, handymen and painters, mother’s helpers, drivers, and the like. While the majority of these individuals are trustworthy and mean well, there is always the possibility of encountering a bad apple. Since some of these types of services are easy to qualify for and advertise, people with less than stellar backgrounds may be part of the labor pool. It is important to know the character of someone who is going to be in contact with your family on an ongoing basis. A nanny or babysitter, helper, or maintenance person will spend considerable time around your family. Keep in mind that this includes children, extended family, live in guests, parents and grandparents, and so on. All of these individuals may find themselves in contact with the home help service provider in one way or another. Many of these individuals may even be left alone for periods with the home help provider. If this provider should happen to be dishonest or even criminal, this could have very unfortunate consequences. Companies often run a background check or screening before hiring an employee. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could run a home help screening before bringing a service professional into your home? It would give you a sense of confidence in the individual and a better idea of the risks and rewards of hiring them. A company called MyBakcgroundCheck.com specializes in making background checks easily available. A family who is about to hire a helper or service professional can direct this person to first furnish them with a background check. The individual then goes and runs the background check and when it arrives offers it to the potential employer/family as proof of their honesty and competence. MyBackgroundCheck.com has built in networking and interactive features that make sharing and discussing the information easy. Note here that there is no cost to the individual or family hiring the helper or service provider. The person being hired pays for the background check to be performed, then presents the results to individual or family considering hiring them. Performing the background check helps both the employer family and the service provider. The family gets a more in depth knowledge of who they are hiring, and the provider gets to see what is actually on their record, who may have been viewing it, and to dispute any errors or false claims that may be present. Keep in mind also that just because there are some problems on a record, you may not necessarily wish to refrain from hiring the individual. But it can’t hurt to at least take a look at somebody’s background with a home help screening. As noted above, most individuals either have good records, or deserve a second chance even if they have made mistakes. If someone has a deeply suspicious record you’ll know that from the background check, and in these cases may not wish to hire the service provider. If the individual has mediocre or spotless records, that will be good to know also. Running a background check makes you generally better informed and is a responsible thing to do. So protect your family, children, and peace of mind with a background check before hiring a service provider with which they will be in close contact. This will enhance your trust, make for better communication all around, and even help the service provider by making them better informed as to what is on their record. If this is done without exaggeration and paranoia, it can help all parties involved.
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