Make your home a safer place!
A 92-year-old man was killed, while his daughter-in-law was attacked by a domestic help and his two associates, in South-East Delhi. In recent years, robbery and murder planned and executed by domestic workers have been increasing in cities. Domestic workers are employed a lot in cities in almost all houses. Domestic servants comprise of cook, driver, houseboy, housemaid, nanny and watchman, and they are generally employed to work on full-time basis and also made to stay in the employer’s house for convenience of the employers. Specially the rich ones hire them permanently and make them a part and parcel of their life. One has to keep in mind that any crimes by domestic workers are meticulously planned. Very often gangs take up work as domestic workers, and their intent is to steal. They are simply waiting for the right opportunity. However, it is a myth that only recently hired domestics commit crimes. There have been cases where servants were planning for the right opportunity for months and years.
People generally do not bother to check the background of the people while employing them as domestic workers. They don’t check with police or a background screening company to verify their character through any sources. It is instilled in our minds that we are to be satisfied with mere trust and gut feelings when hiring domestic workers. We believe the references we are provided with are trustworthy, and fall into many traps.
However, this trend has been changing with the emergence of background screening companies. These companies conduct thorough background check of domestic workers and suggest the employer whether the servant is eligible to be hired for domestic help. There are people who hire domestic workers through recruiting agencies. But recruiting agencies also sometimes don’t check the authenticity of the identities they are working with or listing in their agency. There was a case associated with a well-known recruiting agency and a fake nurse. The accused had presented his credentials as a trained nurse, which was sufficient requirement for the agency to enlist him with them. This person not only used to rob all his employees after working with them for a couple of months, but shrewdly ensured that he moved to a different city after each exploit.
Hence it’s important to utilize these background check companies for hiring the right domestic workers. Proper checking of their criminal records with the help of police or local authorities is possible through this. Why should we wait for a calamity to strike us before we take relevant steps to secure ourselves? Ensuring personal security through employee background screening is an individual's responsibility and a matter to be regarded with utmost urgency.
These pre employment screening companies provide various other verification services as well. They conduct background verification for all types of employees and employee screening is a must in all jobs now. They not only conduct employee background checks but also conduct tenant verification, police verification, criminal record checks etc. A pre employment screening company ensures that anyone being hired have a clean background with no criminal intention or association and verify the true identity of the employees.