The company you are speaking of is a seperated cousin of my employer.

The 19 year old is not someone that makes a hiring decision, she is a screener. The screeners help weed out the people who clearly are just wasting the company's time. You know the people who are just wanting an inquiry to please the unemployment office or their parents who are hounding them to get a job.

The credit check and the drug test. It is because the majority of people who steal from company are stealing to support a drug habit or have personal debt problems. They do not care if you have a couple of bad marks. If you are making the effort to pay your bills that is all that matters.

The background check is just a simple run of your name through a criminal data base. They want to make sure you have no criminal offenses such as assault, theft, forgery or burglary. You can pull the same data they would see at OSBI or at your county sheriff's office.

The test is nothing more than personality analysis that identfies where your strengths and weakness are and if your trainable. Not to mention the test runs off the people that are not serious about the job.

Bottom line employers have to cover there asses these days. If they do not do their homework on new hires it could cost them millions. In the form theft, and lawsuits.