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Who should security companies hire?

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If you want to hire a security company, you should pay a lot of attention to the kind of people they hire as guards. It goes without saying that not everybody can be a security guard. First of all, the job is physically demanding and as such, people who are not in great physical shape might not make it. Also, there is a lot of mental stress involved, making people with certain behaviors such as anger issues not suitable candidates. In this article, I am going to look at how security cyprus firms hire security guards that they assign to clients’ homes, offices, and other places or work or residence.
Candidates with a clean criminal background
Can you imagine what the situation would be like if you had a masculine guy working as a guard in your home, but you couldn’t trust them because you recently found out that they just came out of prison for putting another guy in the hospital with serious physical injuries? I bet, you wouldn’t feel so comfortable being around them because you can’t tell what they might do to you or your family if provoked.
It is for this reason that security firms make a habit of not hiring anyone who has a criminal background. By a criminal background we mean having been in prison or having been convicted of a serious felony or crime.
Candidates with good interpersonal skills
Private security is a social business where security guards have to interact with other people on a regular basis in their line of work. Therefore it makes sense to hire someone who is good with people. They need to be approachable and sociable so that clients can have an easier time interacting with them while at work.
Candidates that pass a drug screen
Lastly, it is very important to consider and hire candidates who can pass drug screen. A candidate who doesn’t pass a drug screen is not an employee, but rather a liability.