Make Motor Vehicle Records Part of Your Employee Background Checks

Post author By Gordon Basichis
Post date June 18, 2008
2 Comments on Make Motor Vehicle Records Part of Your Employee Background Checks

When asked if they would like to conduct Motor Vehicle Records Searches as part of their pre-employment screening program, many clients will ask, “why, the candidate isn’t driving for us?”

The fact is the Motor Vehicle Driving Records can tell you much more than just how your candidate is driving. This search can define behavior patterns and even indicate substance problems. You do not want substance abuse problems in your work place, so you either run drug tests or look for the behavioral signs through the DMV search and other background check indicators.

So be sure to make the DMV Search part of your preemployment screening process. Different background checks can, when taken as a whole, reveal a great deal about your candidate’s behavior.

Check them out before you hire. Call Corra for background researc h.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

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2 replies on “Make Motor Vehicle Records Part of Your Employee Background Checks”

I really feel like your driving record does not belong in your employee background checks unless you are applying for a driving position. Not all information has to be shared.

Driving records or MVRs are good indicators of behavior patterns. They can show substance abuse and how an employment candidate tends to the essentials of his personal life. The belief is that one who tends well to his personal life will do the same on the job. There are also insurance issues and matters of liability. If an employer sends an employee out for doughnuts, even if they are driving their own vehicle and aren’t officially a driver and they do hit and hurt somebody, the employer can face liability charges.