One extremely useful facet of using employment applications in hiring is the ability of the employer to directly ask an applicant if he or she has a criminal history that would show up if a thorough background check was conducted. Yet, to their detriment, many employers use language that is either too narrow, too broad, or too ambiguous to successfully accomplish this – each of these mistakes can lead to legal quagmires or bad hires continuing to slip through the cracks and potentially endanger businesses.
