Suppose your company has job vacancies to fill. In that case, it is a pretty standard procedure to run an employment background check. This utilizes a consumer reporting agency (CRA) that compiles employee background screening information. After receiving all the employee background check data from the employment screening company, the Human Resource Department will make a hiring decision. The next …
What Drugs Are Not Tested In a 5-Panel Drug Test?
What Drugs Are Not Tested In a 5-Panel Drug Test? Drug Testing: What is in a 5-Panel Drug Test vs a 9-Panel Drug Test? Many employers run only a standard 5-panel drug test on applicants and employees. Usually, employers are ordering drug screening with an out-of-date drug screening policy. My advice to those employers is this…just as the world …
Call your California assembly members
Make a call to your assembly members and start by introducing yourself and your company. Here is a list of phone numbers. Express you are calling to support Senate Bill 1262. Let them know the bill is vital for ensuring Californians are hired quickly by restoring identifiers to court records. As an employer without this access to basic identifying information …
What Should Be Included in the Employee Background Check Report?
MBI Worldwide Background Checks and Drug Screening suggests what results should be included in your employee background check report.
COVID-19 Employee Background Screening Challenges
March 2020 is the month that the world of Human Resources will never forget. The month our HR world was thrown into chaos by a random pandemic none of us knew was coming or prepared to deal with. The already overworked and understaffed HR departments of the nation were now forced to make some quick and serious decisions for employee …
MBI Monthly Myth Buster – January 2020
MYTH: TRUE OR FALSE? It is a good idea to use my family and friends as professional references? MYTH BUSTER: FALSE It is not a good idea to use family and friends as a professional reference on a job application. The main reason is your family and friends don’t usually know you in a professional standing and therefore are biased …
NEW VERSION OF “A SUMMARY OF YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE FAIR CREDIT REPORTING ACT” RELEASED
September 19, 2018: A revised version of “A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act” dispute form was released on September 12, 2018 by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and all employers and background check companies have one week to comply. MBI Worldwide has integrated this new Summary of Rights form into our online applicant portal …
Do You Trust Your Current Employee Background Screening Company?
As HR Professionals, we get comfortable with our employment background screening vendors, trusting they are taking care of us. That’s what we pay them for, right? We know they will have our back, feed us the important information we need, keep us compliant and safeguard our screening practices. But, do we really know if they are doing that? They …
Protecting Your Investment: Does Your Organization Perform Employee Monitoring or Annual Employment Background Screening?
If it was important for you to know the job candidate’s criminal and driving history in the beginning, why isn’t it important to know now? While most companies in the United States perform employment background screening at the hiring stage, two new rising trends in the employment background screening industry are “Employee Monitoring” and “Annual Employment Background Screening”. According to …
Social Media in the Workplace
Social media has become a way of life for many of us. The Pew Research Center says 70 percent of Americans use social media to stay connected and Facebook just announced today that it had over two billion users. In fact, you probably found this blog via the MBI Worldwide Facebook or Twitter pages. But are you reading this post …
