Background checks are an important part of the hiring process for many businesses. They are meant to help employers decide who to hire and make sure that the people they do hire are trustworthy, reliable, and qualified for the job. But how do background checks actually work, and what kind of information do they find?

Photo by Govinda Valbuena from Pexels Aesop’s Fable, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’. This is a story that any human resources manager will be eventually familiar with from personal experience. That bad experience after a promising employee fails to fit in, becomes disgruntled, and then things go pear shaped. Sour Grapes A hungry fox passed