Blue Planet helps small businesses in hiring employees and in handling employee references of past employees. Our service is ideal for small companies that do not want to deal with running a personnel office or worrying about these issues. The service is ideal for small companies where the owner is not usually present, such as when a person owns a number of different businesses in different locations. Consolidate all the employee reference information at one location, in our secure data center.

Blue Planet offers this service at very attractive rates. Our rates are so low that it is cheaper and more effective to use our service than try to do it yourself or depend on an employee who may or may not do the job. Our service is reliable and fast. We provide much better reference checking and background investigations than any employee could in a small business.

If you are relying upon an employee to do job screening functions, you really have no way of knowing if they really did their job. You have no way of knowing if that employee is hiring a friend, boyfriend, girlfriend or a relative. These types of combinations result in employee fraud, theft and other problems. These types of employees cover for each other, punching each other in or out, cheating the employer and affecting the operations of the business. Many companies have rules against hiring relatives or close personal friends and for good reason.

At minimum you will want to know that these "friends" do not have criminal records, and that they actually have the job experience they claim. How you trust an employee who is friends with the applicant to do an effective job and background check.

Sign-up with Blue Planet for only $29.95 which includes one free employee screening. We check their job references, do a background check and check for criminal records. At that point, additional employee screenings are only $19.95.

Once signed up, we will provide job references for former employees too. This is quoted based upon the number of employees and the form of the job records and other information provided. Generally the cost is only a few dollars per employee to input the data. We have staff available to enter data from paper records. If the data is already in a database the cost is only 25 cents per employee, with a minimum of $5.00. The cost is only $4.95 per employee reference provided. To cover the cost of the telephone number we assign to you, there is a $9.95 per month maintenance fee.

Using Blue Planet for your job reference checking you will be assured of proper employee investigation and accurate information. Simply fax us the job application with your customer number on it. We will charge your credit card on file and complete the investigation and fax or email the results to the locations you desire. We can automatically flag problem applications and email the information directly to the owner or other high ranking employee. Reference checking is normally completed in 24 to 48 hours.

Blue Planet has access to commercial databases that a small company would not. Due to our volume of usage of databases we pay far lower fees than a small company could obtain directly. We make use of databases that most people know nothing about. Expertise is an important part of our package. Do not forget that one of the largest costs for business is employee theft. We can help to minimize that problem.

In many small businesses a person's job references are not even checked. People are often hired on the spot. Even if this is done, references should still be checked and Blue Planet is the perfect way to have it done. But imagine what could happen if references are not checked! We are not talking about the waste of time and training an unqualified employee might cost you. We are talking about hiring people who have serious problems who might end up harming a customer or another employee. Imagine the problems to result from that. A lawsuit would cost big bucks and you can be sure you will loose when they tell the court that you did not even check the person's references. Avoid these types of problems by having Blue Planet check all incoming employee references.

We handle all the calls you get for references on past employees. Nobody in your office is bothered by these types of calls other than giving out our number assigned to you to call. Once we are handling your references, all employees can be given our number to use for future job applications so we are called directly.

Using Blue Planet to provide references also saves you from potential legal actions. The employees likely to answer your telephones are not human resources professionals. If one of your employees gives out a reference, that is not accurate or is inflamatory, the business is a potential target for a lawsuit. What if the person giving out the reference dislikes the person being checked? This can be a big problem. When you use Blue Planet you can be certain that only the information you want provided will be provided. There are no personal comments or ad-libs. Personal agendas are not part of the reference information that we give out. The business owner can be comfortable in knowing that no legal problems will result from giving out reference information.

If due to employee turnover or other factors the owner has to provide the reference information for former employees, the time we save is far more valuable than our modest fees. If the owner has to deal with calls (and perhaps not anywhere near the records) the entire thing can take a lot of time and not have a very effective resolution. Certainly this is not a good use of time for the ower of a company. Using Blue Planet Offices will save time and aggravation, and probably money in the end.

For more information, please call our Customer Service number at 305-849-5020 or our Toll Free number at 1-800-518-1206. Email us at links@employee-references.com.

Thank you for your interest.