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Virgin Atlantic forces hundreds of new staff each year to pay for their own criminal record checks

Well, here is the faux pas of the day. If you want to read the news report, here is the link:

http://easyforexguides.com/tag/pre-employment-screening/

If you ask me, Virgin should be welcoming people into their waiting arms and using the opportunity to expand their recruiting by using the interview process rather than weeding out undesirables by making them pay up front for  a criminal record check. It would appear that the theory is that anyone willing to pay must have a clean record, or they wouldn’t pay for one, knowing they would be automatically eliminated from candidacy.

It is a sneaky way to scrape the cream off of the top except for that one factor they likely aren’t considering, which is that is that more and more people are boldly presenting their criminal backgrounds, hoping that the prospective employer will look past the conviction and see that they might indeed be a very good prospective employee.

In essence, it occurs to me as an HR guy for 32 years, and a Factual Employment Screener for those same 32 years that Virgin is actually missing a lot of good potentials, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater.