Both probation and background checks are designed to ensure that an employee's abilities and background meet the requirements of the organization, but they differ in their approach and focus.

The probation period is mainly for enterprises to assess the work performance of new employees, understand their professional skills, work attitude, communication skills and team cooperation ability. If during the probation period, the employee's performance meets the expectations of the company, then the employee is likely to be formally hired.

The background investigation is mainly to verify the background information of new employees, such as education, work experience, professional qualifications, credit history, etc., to avoid recruiting employees with bad records or who do not meet the requirements of the enterprise.

Although the probation period can initially determine whether an employee meets the requirements of the company, the background investigation can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the background and experience of the employee, which can help the company better evaluate the real ability and personality characteristics of the employee, and avoid hiring employees with bad records.

In addition, the time cost, salary cost and labor cost spent on back adjustment and probation period will also be different, if you can back adjustment before entering the job and find problems early, you can greatly reduce all kinds of costs.

01- Time cost

Back tone: different positions, the depth of the back tone is different, and the back tone time varies according to the depth of the back tone, usually 1-8 days.

Probation period: Different enterprises probation period is different, usually 1-6 months.

02- Cost of expenses

Back tone: Depending on the depth of the back tone, there are hundreds, there are thousands.

Trial period: at least several thousand, the higher the position, the longer the time, the higher the cost.

03- Manpower cost

Back tone: the enterprise usually entrusts a third party to carry out back tone, and the enterprise HR can mainly cooperate with the communication.

Probation period: need to consume a series of human resources such as post handover, induction training, re-recruitment interview.

04- Risk cost

Back tone: Hire the front back tone, find the problem in advance, avoid the risk in time, almost no risk cost.

Probationary period: If you hire workers who have the obligation of non-competition, do not terminate the labor relationship, "professional wage fraud" gang, commercial espionage, industry blacklist, and have bad records, it is very likely to bring legal risks, economic losses, reputation damage and other risks.

Therefore, even if there is a probation period, companies still need to conduct background checks to ensure that the employees they recruit meet the requirements and standards of the company.