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Holiday Hiring Surge: Best Practices for Fast Effective Background Checks in Retail

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November 19th, 2024 | Joy Henry, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Americas

As the holiday season approaches, retail businesses face the yearly challenge of ramping up their workforces to meet increased demand. Seasonal hiring is a balancing act, where speed is essential, but prioritizing workforce safety remains critical. Background checks are a key part of this process, helping to ensure that new hires meet the necessary standards without slowing down the hiring process.

Why Run Background Checks on Seasonal Hires?

While it may be tempting to streamline hiring by skipping steps during the busiest time of year, not running background checks can have lasting impacts on store safety, customer satisfaction, and brand reputation. Background checks help retailers:

  • Create a safe work environment: Conducting criminal background checks can help identify fraud, protecting valuable resources and inventory 
  • Protect brand reputation: A well-vetted, reliable team upholds your brand’s reputation, showing team members and customers that your business prioritizes safety and integrity at all times 
  • Build customer confidence: When team members feel confident in the safety of their work environment due to background checks, it can increase morale and help to enhance customer interactions, which is especially important during peak holiday traffic  

4 Best Practices for Fast, Effective Background Checks for Retailers During the Holiday Rush

Following a simple list of background check best practices for the retail industry will help you feel confident that your business is hiring authentic people, staying compliant with the latest hiring regulations, and leveraging tools effectively, and provides you with the agility to keep up with hiring spikes, such as the end-of-year holiday season.

1. Leverage technology for speed and accuracy    

Partnering with the right background screening vendor can help you leverage their technology to deliver background checks at the speed you need for high-volume hiring. Many background check providers also seamlessly integrate with applicant tracking systems (ATS), allowing for real-time data updates on candidate screening status.

2. Partner with a background check provider that specializes in retail

Background check providers who specialize in retail understand the nuances of seasonal hiring, including the need for quick turnarounds. These providers offer packages tailored for retail, which streamline the process for hiring surges. Additionally, they can provide benchmarking data from similar organizations, helping to guide your hiring strategy.

3. Communicate clearly with candidates

Transparency and ease around the background check process can reduce candidate anxiety and improve hiring timelines. To enhance the candidate experience, select a background check provider that offers mobile-friendly platforms, allowing applicants to easily complete the required steps from anywhere, anytime. In addition, candidates can go through the process in their preferred language with dedicated regional candidate support.

4. Built-in compliance technology

Keeping up with changing regulations in background checks can be challenging, especially during high-volume hiring times when time is of the essence. You’ll want a background screening platform that offers compliance automation tools to help ensure all background checks align with federal, state, and local laws. Having compliance tools all accessible in one place helps make your retail workforce more secure.

By balancing speed and thoroughness, retailers can create a hiring process that not only fills seasonal roles quickly but also upholds safety and security stanPartnering with a retail-focused provider can help to ensure effective background checks during the holiday hiring surge. With these practices, retail businesses can build a reliable team that enhances the customer experience and keeps the holiday season smooth, successful, and properly staffed.

If you’d like to learn more about our retail-specific background screening solutions and how they can help your hiring process, please click here.

This content is offered for informational purposes only. First Advantage is not a law firm, and this content does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice. Information in this may not constitute the most up-to-date legal or other information.

Readers of this content should contact their attorney or lawyer to obtain advice concerning any particular legal matter. No reader, or user of this content, should act or refrain from acting on the basis of information in this content without first seeking legal advice from counsel or lawyers in the relevant jurisdiction. Only your individual attorney or legal advisor can provide assurances that the information contained herein – and your interpretation of it – is applicable or appropriate to your particular situation. Use of, and access to, this content does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader, or user of this presentation and First Advantage.

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