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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 …

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Does Your Employment Background Screening Company Need Accurate Job Applicant Data?

Are you a Hiring Manager flipping through resumes preparing to make a new hire for a current job opening?  Properly vetting a job candidate is a daunting task.  Not only do you need to look at the specific details on the job candidates resume (ie. where they’ve previously worked, term of employment, previous job titles and duties, references listed, etc),  but you will also need …

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What You Need to Know About Consent and Disclosure Forms

Consent and Disclosure For employers, the (EEOC) U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s criminal background screening guidance has created not only mass confusion, but serious hiring uncertainties on exactly how to conduct criminal background checks without significant legal risk to your organization. Using proper consent and disclosure forms during your hiring process is one crucial step to staying out of a class-action …

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Keep Politics From Dividing the Workplace

Posted 11/7/16 There’s an old saying, “never discuss religion or politics in polite company.” But that phrase has gone by the wayside in this era of social media. There are political posts for each candidate from every party including Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. The political banter online sometimes makes its way into the workplace and …

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Selecting an Employment Background Screening Vendor

Posted 11/1/2016 When considering an employment background screening company you should only use the best.  I personally know that selecting a new vendor can be time consuming and rigorous.  So what sets one screening company apart from the rest?  Why pick company A over company B? There are many factors to consider.  However there are some major key points to …