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by brianbirgen on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 12:21:28 PM PDT

At my school, we generally do not do background checks of our new hires. I believe the security department does, but most of the other departments do not. It has been discussed that this is a dangerous policy and perhaps we should be doing a basic background search of all job applicants.

Suppose we hire someone who turns out to be a convicted sex offender and they run afoul of the law. We would look very bad as a school if it came out that we hired such a person without doing a background check first.

Simply from the perspective of the hiring institution, it is in their best interest to perform a very basic background check of an applicant (a Google search at a minimum). It might be a sign of "Big Brother" or it might just be a sign of an overly litiguous society.



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