在 COVID-19 袭击美国后的几个月里，大流行的众多后果之一是员工背景调查过程放缓。虽然大多数雇主正在裁员或让员工休假而不是招聘，但寻找新员工的企业往往不得不进行 比他们习惯使用的更慢或 不那么全面的背景调查。
随着经济重新启动，雇主希望再次招聘，他们可能想知道这些延迟是否会继续下去。
除非出现另一波严重的 COVID-19 病例，否则大多数与大流行相关的背景调查延迟已成为过去。这些延误主要是由于法院、政府办公室、DMV、企业、学院和大学关闭，背景调查专业人员必须联系以收集背景调查信息。
虽然许多县法院 都有允许远程搜索犯罪记录的在线数据库，但 其他县法院要求亲自在法院完成这些搜索。由于许多县法院因大流行而关闭，因此暂时无法进行这些背景调查。
同样， 验证工作经历 或 教育证书 是一个步骤，涉及联系候选人简历中列出的企业或机构。大流行也使这些通信变得更加困难，许多实体关闭了办公室，裁员或将员工送回家远程工作。因此，就业和教育检查比平时更难进行，通常至少会延迟一些时间。
即使解除了居家令和企业重新开业，许多与大流行相关的限制仍然存在。法院大多已重新开放，这意味着犯罪背景调查的延误将降至最低或不存在。但是，许多企业仍在在家工作的基础上运营，这可能意味着验证检查的持续延迟。
雇主此时能做的最好的事情就是耐心等待。新型冠状病毒破坏了我们在日常生活中保持稳定性和效率所依赖的许多系统，包括背景调查系统。
在 GOOHO.CN ，我们正在努力尽快处理背景调查，因为我们知道我们的客户依靠这些调查来做出明智的招聘决定。我们还鼓励我们的客户立即使用我们提供的一些检查，例如，我们的 美国 OneSEARCH 检查允许客户立即搜索超过 6.5 亿条犯罪记录，覆盖所有 50 个州以及华盛顿特区和波多黎各里科和关岛。我们内部维护的数据库在整个大流行期间一直保持稳定和可搜索，无论接下来发生什么，都可以进行快速可靠的员工背景调查。
如果您对大流行可能如何影响您的背景调查过程有任何疑问，请随时直接与我们联系。
less comprehensive background checks than they were accustomed to using.
As the economy restarts and employers look to potentially hire again, they may be wondering whether these delays will continue.
Most pandemic-related background check delays are a thing of the past barring another severe wave of COVID-19 cases. These delays were largely caused by closures of the courts, government offices, DMVs, businesses, colleges, and universities that background check professionals must contact to collect background check information.
While many county courts have online databases that allow from-a-distance criminal record searches, others require those searches to be completed in person at the courthouse. Since many county courts closed due to the pandemic, these background checks were temporarily impossible to conduct.
Similarly, verifying employment history or educational credentials is a step that involves contacting the business or institution listed on a candidate’s resume. These communications were also rendered more difficult by the pandemic, with many entities closing their offices, downsizing their staff, or sending employees home to work remotely. As a result, employment and education checks were more difficult to conduct than usual and typically involved at least some delay.
Even with stay-at-home orders lifting and businesses reopening, many pandemic-related restrictions are still in place. Courts have mostly reopened, which means that delays for criminal background checks will be minimal or absent going forward. However, many businesses are still operating on a work-from-home basis, which could mean ongoing delays for verification checks.
The best thing that employers can do at this time is to be patient. The novel coronavirus disrupted many of the systems that we rely on for stability and efficiency in our day-to-day lives, background check system included.
At backgroundchecks.com, we are working to process background checks as quickly as possible, because we know that our customers rely on these checks to make smart hiring decisions. We are also encouraging our clients to utilize some of the checks we offer that process instantly—our US OneSEARCH check, for instance, allows customers to search more than 650 million criminal records in an instant, spanning all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam. The database, which we maintain in-house, has remained stable and searchable throughout the pandemic and will be available for quick and reliable employee background checks no matter what happens next.
Feel free to contact us directly if you have any questions about how the pandemic might impact your background check process.
