During the evaluation of a potential employee for a place of work, it’s possible to measure his or her abilities in many fields. What isn’t possible, using the usual hiring process, is to assess the chance that the candidate will violate the trust of their employer.
During the assessment stage, candidates will do their best to impress the interviewer, and surely won’t confess to negative or suspicious actions from the past, nor will they share any unsavory future intention. Research in the field shows that employees violate their employer’s trust only after they’ve gone through an adjustment period to the workplace which takes a few months or more. After this period they feel secure with their position in the workplace and are familiar with the breaches in the organization.
With the help of a pre-employment polygraph exam, it’s possible to weed out candidates that may cause damage to the organization. Research shows that there is a high probability that a person that has violated an employer’s trust in the past will do so again in the future. Using the polygraph exam we will check if the candidate has acted irregularly in the past, in any way that diverges from the acceptable norm.
The topics that are checked during the process are pre-agreed upon with the organization, according to the organization’s character, the nature of the candidate’s potential position within the organization, and the level of risk that is involved in this position.
Many organizations abstain from having a pre-employment polygraph exam out of fear of losing good candidates, and out of fear for the organization’s image. From our experience, we’ve seen that organizations that implement pre-employment polygraph exams improve the quality of their employees, decrease the amount of irregular events within the organization, and even create among the employees a feeling of belonging with the organization.
The knowledge that the organization is willing to invest in this complex process creates among the employees a feeling that (1) this is a serious organization and that (2) employees who are hired must have that certain added value. Furthermore, after the process is implemented within the organization, we have seen that employees who have gone through the pre-employment polygraph exam will show understanding and willingness to go through additional, periodical polygraph exams during their time with the organization.
In addition to the polygraph exam, Gazit offers additional services pertaining to candidate assessment. Among those are:
- Comprehensive personal questionnaire
- Computerized integrity test
- Structured interview
- Computerized skill and personality test
Contact us today for more information on pre-employment polygraph exam.