The two Company A top level executives were finalizing their plans to extend a job offer to a candidate for the position of Director of Public Relations but they were deliberating whether to conduct a reference check with the candidate. The CEO of Company A said: whats the point in doing so?! Whenever you call a referee all they say is how wonderful the person is or has been; We also dont have any time to spare or waste because our top candidate has already indicated that she has another job offer in hand. Should we wait to conduct her reference check, then we will be risking losing her.

As per the job description, the Director of Public Relations will be responsible for providing strategic communications leadership, expertise and support to the executive team, writing and editing public affairs materials, including articles for publication, executive speeches and presentations, establishing relationships with media, monitoring and managing organizational risks and issues, developing and maintaining strong relationships with teams and leaders across the company, leading the development of communications initiatives, and preparing measurement of results of communication initiatives and supervising a team of public affairs and communications experts.

The CEO went on saying that we need to make a decision here; should we conduct a reference check or not?! And we havent even discussed a background check yet. We need to make a decision right now.

Now as the HR Director of the Company, you will need to make a recommendation to the CEO around the questions below.

Questions

1 - What are the reasons for conducting a reference check in this situation? Should the Company conduct a reference check?

2 - Should they also conduct a background check on the candidate whom they want to give a job offer?

3 - If you realize that the individual has a criminal offence/record, can you then disqualify that candidate solely on that ground?

4 - How about an Internet search to see if there is any other information that can be found on this candidate? What are possible risks with conducting this type of information search?

5 - Based on the above job description, what are the most critical aspects of the Director of Public Relations job description that should be assessed during the screening process and why?

HEY THESE ARE 5 QUESTIONS PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS WELL IN MINIMUM 200 WORDS EACH AND EXPLAIN IT SEPERATELY