Importance of background verification
By prasanta
@prasanta (1948)
India
April 4, 2011 4:33pm CST
While keeping any person at home, whether a servant or otherwise, background verification is very important, especially, when we are seeing that crime rate is increasing among domestic helps.
In India, as many times under-aged people are kept illegally at home as servants, normally people do not bother to inform local police on their decisions to keep outsiders at home, but it is too essential to avoid future complications.
What's your view on this?
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4 responses
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Checking the background of someone you will have a lot of contact with can be very important. Knowing everything you can about someone may be the best thing you can do in a relationship with them. Some surprises are not worth waiting for.1 person likes this
@CONDLAUR (134)
• Romania
4 Apr 11
First of all when you hire someone try to get as more information as you can from that person. Knowing his roots and habits will be more necessary than fun. Me for instant would not hire a person if I do not now him. I need to be confident that the person is not a criminal or a spy. He/she could be hired from an enemy of mine to try to do me harm. Maybe the person has psyche problem and need treatment. do not want to wake up in the middle of the night with a knife stuck in your heart. So yes I think getting the person's background will be the perfect solutions if you need help with your choirs.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
5 Apr 11
That is sadly very true to say the very least. There are a lot of people out there who you should not really trust at face value any more. Granted, it should not really be that way, but that is just the nature in the world. There are a lot of people posing as something that they are not or someone that they are not to say the very least. Then they go and rob you rather blind or do any number of things as a matter of fact.
So yes, a background check is not only a safeguard, but rather, the smart thing to do in this day and age. There are a lot of shady people in this world at best, and then there are a lot of people who are extremely dangerous at their very worse. There are a lot of disturbing things that have been uncovered in the world that we live in. Therefore, we just got to be careful and check into who we are allowing into our homes and around our families.
@jackson01 (7)
• China
5 Apr 11
I absolutely agree with you. You know what, in my country, if you want to be a civil servant, after you pass the examination and interview, the last thing before you are admitted is the government will check you background. It is of vital importance to know someone who will work for you or with you.
@prasanta (1948)
• India
6 Apr 11
In case of a government, the job is very easy. But in case of individuals and small companies, especially in India where corruption is at all spheres, it is very difficult. What is the guarantee that if any private investigator is deployed, he/she will do the job sincerely! Also, his/her report is not legally challangeable.
@jackson01 (7)
• China
7 Apr 11
Well, that's really a question. As to a private investigator, presonally, I consider there are at least two more questions to be answered. Firstly, it will add the cost of the employer, so it will be a little more difficult for the employer to accept; secondly, as my major is civil law and commercial law, and I just realize that the work of the investigator, which is necessary for he or she to complete the obligations, might infringe other people's lawful rights, such as right of privacy, right to portrait and so on.
In addition, as something similar also happened in my country, I hold that it is just a signal that some measures must be done about our education system. People lack of basic honesty and moral standard, it's really dangerous.
