If you are planning to hire staff to work in your home, much more than CVs will be required.  Pre-employment screening is an absolute must in order to ensure that future employees are trustworthy and qualified to excel in their roles. Today, we will expand upon why it is so important to ensure that prospective staff receive thorough screening and vetting.

What Does the Screening Process Entail?

The screening process includes several duties that confirm a candidate’s basic suitability for a household staffing position, such as:

• Review of CV and application
• Shortlisting of candidates
• Confirmation of qualifications and certifications
• Eligibility for employment

A candidate’s certifications are verified by contacting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form allows employers to know that their staff are legally eligible for employment. 

Why Background Screening Is Important

Screening is a process that streamlines the next step, which is vetting. Instead of having several candidates, screening allows them to be shortlisted to only those candidates who are the absolute best fit for a domestic role. Screening allows for much time and resources to be saved.

What Does the Vetting Process Entail?

The vetting process is a comprehensive one that includes several important items necessary for hiring the right people for domestic employment. These items include:

• Criminal background check
• Checking of references
• Confirming education
• Confirmation of experience, dependability, and attendance

Criminal background checks include searches in federal, state, and county databases for past criminal activity. Past employers are contacted to complete the employee vetting process by confirming a candidate’s attendance, dependability, and experience.

Why Vetting Is Important

Ensuring that all candidates are vetted prior to interviewing them has benefits for the employer and the household itself. 

When domestic staffing candidates are vetted, the employer can know that any candidate they choose will start benefiting the household right away. In addition, less training time will be required, the employee possesses the skills and experience needed to adapt quickly, and their work will be of the highest quality.

With vetting, employers benefit from fewer gaps in staffing and less disruption to daily operations. In a similar vein, pre-vetted candidates also reduce employee turnover, thanks to their excellent fit for various roles.

The Additional Benefits of Screening and Vetting Domestic Staffing Candidates

Households that hire vetted domestic employees enjoy stronger teams, as screened and vetted employees are verifiably dependable. This dependability helps to improve team collaboration and, ultimately, morale as a whole. As well, confirming details in a candidate’s CV eliminates the concern of falsification of details, which is quite prevalent. 

The issue of safety is always important in domestic work settings, as it is in any work setting. In screening and vetting candidates, questions regarding past safety incidences or violations can be ruled out, such as with Nanny background checks. These thorough processes ensure that a Nanny or any other candidate has been properly trained in their role.

In confirming a candidate’s safety record, an employer can avoid the possibility of having to deal with future legal challenges as a result of not checking their history beforehand.

Ensuring domestic staffing candidates are properly vetted can result in thousands of dollars being saved that can be reinvested into an estate.

The Importance of Discretion When Sourcing Candidates

Exercising discretion when sourcing candidates is of the utmost importance, especially where high-net-worth employers are concerned. The protection of privacy is a top priority for affluent individuals requiring household staff.

Discreetly sourced candidates also allow for the most talented individuals to be hired far sooner so that they can be interviewed and selected sooner. Discretion also allows estate owners to review and hire talented candidates before other clients do.

Strategies for Beginning the Screening, Vetting, and Hiring Process

If you are the individual who is making the hiring decisions, then it may make sense to conduct employee background checks yourself, as long as you have the time and experience to do so. 

However, if you are the owner of one or more estates or are a celebrity, high-level executive, or other career professional, it is likely that your schedule is demanding. If this is the case, you may have little to no time to accomplish the many steps of screening, vetting, and hiring.

That being said, there is another way to get the vetted, high-quality domestic staffing candidates you require, and that is to work with an experienced domestic staffing agency. Doing so puts some distance between you and the candidates you are considering.

Why is this beneficial? Succinctly put, employment background checks, vetting, and hiring can be a complex process with many moving parts. This can quickly become stressful and overwhelming to the inexperienced. The result can be difficulty with keeping candidates and their skills and qualifications separate from one another.

Your Premier Household Staff Agency 

Staffing at Tiffanie’s is an experienced staffing agency that includes comprehensive background check services for all of our clients. Since 1998, we have assisted high-profile athletes, actors, lawyers, and many other individuals find the qualified staff they require for their homes.

Our goal is to place the best candidates in client homes in a reasonable amount of time. We are able to accomplish this with a refined and meticulous process that streamlines vetting and hiring.

We direct all first-time clients to the Client Onboarding page at our website, where all of the details regarding our full process can be reviewed at your leisure.  

Why Work with Us?

Clients choose us because of our experience, which goes beyond being just a staffing agency. Prior to the inception of our company, we worked in high-profile homes as domestic staff, which provides a unique dual perspective that we use to benefit each search.

We also pride ourselves on transparency, supporting clients at all steps, and providing copies of employee background reports. 
If you are an experienced professional seeking your next placement, we invite you to join our roster. You may also view our list of available positions.