The Ups and Downs of Running Your Own Business

By Simon M Skinner

When you own your own business, you generally would expect to have more "ups" than "downs." It's most people's dream to be your own boss. The money is generally better and you are your own boss. However having to deal with your own employees can be a bit of a downside.

When I first started running my own company I certainly wasn't aware of all the screening processes that I could use before actually deciding whether to employ someone. Nowadays there are even more concerns, such as Homeland Security and Immigration issues.

Running a pre-employment screening and employee background check helps to prevent me from hiring someone who is in this country illegally.

Another big worry is crime. It's not something we generally worry about but I wouldn't want to hire someone who was in the habit of stealing from their employer! Another side of this is that if I hired someone who committed a crime whilst on the job I could be held liable!

A company that I trust to run all of my necessary employee background checks is MacDataAdvantage.com. They have a great list of screenings that I can choose from, if I'm not sure which ones I need to run.

With MacDataAdvantage.com I can find all of the relevand background information I need about a person. I can confirm (or instance) their social security number, I can run a criminal background check I can even run a credit check on them.

A while ago I was checking out a potential employee who would be driving a company vehicle, everything looked great on their application until I ran a pre-employment screening and discovered all was not as it had seemed.

This potential emplyee had a long history of traffic accidents. If I had emplyed this person my company's insurance policy would have increased significantly. I didn't employ this person and once again MacDataAdvantage.com saved me a whole heap of trouble!

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