The Security Industry is a booming business. Everything from high tech programmers and anti-hackers to the night watchman are part of the security industry. With the economy on the rebuild and the lessons learned of the Recession a dndPost-Recession years, many companies are taking extra precautions.
According to an article in the Washington Post, the security industry has increased in employment by twenty percent since 2004. There was the stutter step during the economic downturn, and now things are back to a retire. Companies are hiring, new security agencies are forming.
The industry at large has learned a few lessons. Sometimes you really don’t know who you are hiring. In some cases background checks may be no indicator that you have an Edward Snowden on your hands. But on the lower echelon of employment in the security industry, the modest entry level pay may draw the undesirables. Nobody wants the foxes guarding the hen house so it is prudent to conduct background checks on all your new hires and to do periodic updates on your current employees. Employment screening may go a long was to filtering out the bad apples that can bring damage to your business. All it takes is one incident of violence or a major theft to put your company at risk.
Remember, in the security business, employers are hiring you for three major purposes–because the times have made them insecure, for just in case, and because they are well aware that there goods and services, their proprietary information provides a target for the thieves and scoundrels. Best not to lose their trust. One way to assure that trust is to conduct background checks on all your new hires. And if your employees drive for you, then driving records are a requisite along with criminal records searches and the sex offender registry.
