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That's very much a possibility if this cheap trend on behalf of employers continues... The employers I mentioned were asking all applicants to bring in the $10.00 so imagine, if in one day, an employer gets 250 applications, that's $2,500.00 in the employer's pocket! These applicants may or may not even get the job so as far as I am concerned, it is scam. In other words, they give job applicants false hope so in the hope of getting a job, applicants just have to part with the $10.00.
Applicants who get through the interview process, give false hope to the employer when they fail their background and/or drug test.
Applicants who get through the interview process, give false hope to the employer when they fail their background and/or drug test.
It goes both ways.
So, do these companies refund the money if the people pass the background check? Of course not.
I also assume based on the notion of charging people for false hope, the companies should pay prospective job candidates for their time when they screw around with interviews for BS jobs that go nowhere, giving false hope to the would-be employee that the job they applied to is real... and somehow, I doubt that idea will find any support, despite the fact the companies - being the ones with the money - should be able to afford their own background checks.
Which legitimate applicants lie about having nothing on their background and staffing agencies pay to run background and they fail? Much higher than you must think...
WTF are you talking about??
I don't care about applicants that lie!!! I want to know the names of the so-called "legitimate" staffing agencies that are charging the applicant to run their own background checks!!
Do you have their names? If not, then don't post to me.
I've not seen it, but it's ridiculous for several reasons. For one, background checks are the cost of doing business. Should I also bring $5 to chip in for the phone bill? For another, I'm sure it costs a LOT more than $10 to run a background check!
For a private business it's not that much - like $18 I think. All private businesses can check is the state database which usually only has records that the public (media) has access to anyways. They don't have access to the national fingerprint database (like the police and military do) so they can't check what you've done in other states. They also aren't going to be able find little things like speeding tickets or public intoxication
Ive never heard of this cost being passed to an applicant. That's pretty scummy. It would be a big red flag screaming 'don't apply here!' Also,in my experience, background checks were only run on me once they made a job offer. So these scammers are making everybody bring in $, when they have no intention of actually running checks on them all. Scam.
I don't care about applicants that lie!!! I want to know the names of the so-called "legitimate" staffing agencies that are charging the applicant to run their own background checks!!
Do you have their names? If not, then don't post to me.
Have you noticed there always has to be someone that brings up "applicants" when people are focusing on staffing agencies and or employers and their dirty deeds? It never fails.
I tried to rep you.
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The employers I mentioned were asking all applicants to bring in the $10.00 so imagine, if in one day, an employer gets 250 applications, that's $2,500.00 in the employer's pocket! These applicants may or may not even get the job so as far as I am concerned, it is scam. In other words, they give job applicants false hope so in the hope of getting a job, applicants just have to part with the $10.00.
