E-Verify is one more tool in the hiring arsenal that Castle Keepers uses to identify cleaners, supervisors, trainers, and office/business staff who will keep the business sound, the cleaning top quality, and you excited about spending your time enjoying life instead of cleaning your home. Here’s a quick summary of the tools we use to ensure that the folks who make it to your home are truly the best

In today’s Charleston Post and Courier, staff writer David Slade reminds South Carolina businesses that they have a deadline to begin using E-Verify. You see, on January 1, 2012, “every employer in South Carolina will have to start using the federal government’s online E-Verify system to check the immigration status of newly hired employees.” While every employer has (or should have) a clear and consistent set of hiring practices, including various identity and authorization checks, these processes may not always be followed, which is why states and the federal government have begun to establish requirements to minimize damage to consumers and to businesses.

What does this mean for YOU…our valuable customers?

E-Verify is one more tool in the hiring arsenal that Castle Keepers uses to identify cleaners, supervisors, trainers, and office/business staff who will keep the business sound, the cleaning top quality, and you excited about spending your time enjoying life instead of cleaning your home. Here’s a quick summary of the tools we use to ensure that the folks who make it to your home are truly the best:

DMV Report

Because our cleaning technicians drive to each cleaning location, we check their driving history. This is important to us to properly insure our drivers and passengers based on an accurate driving record, but also to you because this helps us to keep our driving insurance costs in check…in your favor.        

National Criminal Background Check

 

It’s common for a business to perform a state-wide criminal background check, but we go further, requiring a national criminal background check, which will include information available from other states of residence. As there is no centralized state or federal repository of criminal data, this is the most difficult but perhaps the most important information to access. Those applicants with “a record” are not advanced to interviews or training.                                                                       

Orion Survey

 

The Orion Pre-Employment Assessment is a skills and character assessment that is scientifically designed to inform an employer in five key areas: supervisory skills, work skills, drug use, theft attitude, and prospect for long-term employment. When we review applicants, we are looking for someone who is ready to commit to our industry and to grow in knowledge, skill, and advancement. We’re also looking for someone who’ll become your trusted, go-to cleaner on a regular basis.

E-Verify

 

E-verify helps us to ensure on a federal level (not just through a state-issued driver’s license) that a prospective employee is a citizen or has the proper authorization to reside in and work in the United States. We know from a trust point of view that this is very important to our valued customers, but again, this affects our ability to keep internal costs low (no fines for employing unauthorized workers). Applicants who are not verified are not advanced to interviews or training.

Past Employment Verification

Some just call this a “reference check,” and many companies don’t really do it. But we call each past employer to verify the employment period and the circumstances under which the employment ended as well as to request a professional reference for the potential new employee.

Drug Test

All potential employees take a drug test before they begin working for us. Those who test positive are not trained or hired.

Some of you might ask “why all the bother”?

Several of these steps are mandatory, either by state or federal law, to ensure compliance with employment statutes: DMV Report, Criminal Background Check, and E-Verify. But others such as the Orion Survey, past employment verification, and drug testing are voluntary steps we take to further ensure that the candidates we advance to training and then place in your home are trustworthy, dependable, and share the same high-quality performance values as our company…and YOU!

Our point is this: we want you to know that when we seek to hire new cleaning technicians, we do so with your trust and security needs in mind. Certainly we want good employees, good cleaners, promotable talent, but if they aren’t also drug-free with a clean criminal record and legal to work in the US, then we won’t place them on our team or in your home. This is the way to achieve a win-win for all of us!