Pre Employment Background Screening, Drug Testing, & Personality Assessments

ROG Screening & Selection

Mark Lotstein – President

20+ years of convenience and petroleum industry experience

Human ResourcesScanning & Back Office SoftwareOperational Systems & Controls

Pre Employment Screening - Facts

Everyone has had employees steal from them!

Who runs background checks today – less than 50% of non governmental businesses.

Pre Employment Background Checks

Three reasons why every employer should be running a pre employment background check?

1. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that employee theft may cost American businesses as much as $50 billion on an annual basis. The Chamber has also reported that 30 percent of small business failure is caused by employee theft and estimates that 75 percent of all employees steal once and one-half of those steal a second time.

2. Negligent Hiring Lawsuits – this means that if you hire someone who harms a customer or employee and it then found out that the person has a prior history of assault or battery the business owner can be held liable.

3. "Employers are hot targets for theft because workers know their systems, controls and weaknesses, and they can bide their time waiting for the right opportunity," The Wall Street Journal.

Pre Employment Background Checks

The three reasons why most employers don’t run background checks!

1. They think that they are difficult to run, take too much time and cost too much money

2. They are not sure of the rules and regulations / they do not know they are allowed to run background checks

3. Owners don’t realize just how effective they are in identifying people with criminal histories – Thousands of repeat offenders would never be hired if a background check was run on them.

The Truth about Pre Employment Background

Checks A background check via ROG can be run securely online in less

then five minutes and at a very reasonable cost.

Many initial results can be returned in less than one hour and comprehensive search results within one to three days so there is no significant delay in making a hiring decision.

What is the cost of making a bad hiring decision▪ Monetary loss of what was stolen (may or may not ever be recovered)▪ Time lost to dealing with the police and courts▪ Expense of hiring a new employee and training them▪ Scheduling be it you or your other staff filling in shifts until a replacement is

hired

Screening Levels By Position Each area of a business and in some cases

each position requires a different background screen to be run to properly review an applicant for the sake of today’s conversation we will be reviewing: Retail Office Transport Dealer

Search Component Discussion

Social Security NumberName & AddressNationwide Criminal (44 states)Nationwide Sex OffenderState / County SearchMVREmploymentCredential / LicensingEducationWorkers CompensationCredit CheckDrug TestingPersonality Assessments

Retail

Clerk Screen – A basic nationwide criminal search

Manager Screen – A basic nationwide criminal search plus possible credit check and employment history

Supervisor Screen – A basic nationwide criminal check, employment history, and MVR

Office

These searches depend much more on the role that the applicant would be filling and could be as simple as a basic employee screen for a receptionist to a full criminal, education, drug testing, and personality assessment for a new management level applicant.

Transport

Someone driving a company vehicle that is potentially loaded with thousands of gallons of gasoline need to be fully reviewed – lets take a minute to think about the recent airplane incident that occurred in Europe.

CriminalMVRDrug TestingPersonality Assessment

DOT mandated random drug testing and post accident testing

Consortium or not

Dealer

A dealer is an investment in time and money and to do everything possible to ensure this is a good use of both is very important

Criminal – nationwide criminal with state / county if necessary

Credit – available with FICO score

Drug Testing

Drug testing has many options and ways it can be addressed

Saliva – Very limited value of information as the drugs only show up for a short period of time but least expensive and easiest to do onsite

Urine – Industry standard with a longer information / window for testing

Hair – The best method possible but also the most expensive and usually longest to return results

Questions:

Onsite or at a testing facility

MRO or Not

Personality Assessments

What is a personality assessment and how can it help you?

Hiring decisions / Role within the organization Better internal communication

Examples of Assessments Offered:

Honesty & Integrity

Customer Service

Skills & Capabilities

Integration Within An Organization

How to choose the correct vendor

Services offered – Do they have the full range of searches you are looking for or will you need to use multiple vendors?

Insights and information – Will they just sell you searches or help you design a program and make sure you are aware of state and nationwide laws that change over time as well as new search options?

Customer service – US based help desk staffed with a team who really knows the screening industry and can give you insightful feedback and help.

Turnaround time – While a quick turnaround is important for some searches remember sometimes quality data / information takes some time and effort.

Price – Being competitive is important but also don’t forget you get what you pay for and often the cheapest price point gives you the least useful information.

Client Examples

Energy North Group Champlain Oil / Jiffy Marts Western Oil / Petro Mart Brewer Hendley Oil Company Dandy Mini Mart Apache Oil Northwest Petroleum Mid Atlantic Petroleum Properties Mercury Fuel Consumers Petroleum Quantum Inventory Services