DANGER! DANGER! FRAUD ALERT! EDUCATION VERIFICATION SHOULD BE A CRUCIAL STEP IN YOUR HIRING PROCESS

Verifying a job candidate’s education is an important step in the background check and employment screening process of an applicant.  It also represents one of the most common areas where an applicant may falsify information on his or her resume. MBI Worldwide has a 29 percent discrepancy rate on a job applicant’s education history.  That’s an astounding number.  Looking at 100 applications …

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MARCH IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Celebrating the Achievements of Women in Business.      (Taken from MBI Worldwide Newsletter, March 2015) March is nationally recognized as Women’s History Month, highlighting the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, forty years ago women owned just 5% of all small businesses in America. Today, women own over 30%, …

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Adverse Action 101

If your company has job vacancies to fill, it is a pretty standard procedure to run an employment background check utilizing a consumer reporting agency that compiles background information.   After receiving all the background data from the employment screening company (CRA), the human resource department will then make a hiring decision based on that data. If employment is denied based …

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MBI Worldwide Receives Accreditation from the National Association of Professional Background Screeners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Herrin, IL, May 29, 2014 — The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) Background Screening Credentialing Counsel (BSCC) recently announced that MBI Worldwide has successfully proven compliance with the Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program (BSAAP) and will now be formally recognized as an Accredited Employment Screening Company, Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA). To become accredited with NAPBS, …

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The Process of Ordering an Employment Background Check

Are you an employer flipping through applications preparing to make a new hire for your current job opening? If so, not only will you need to look at the details on the papers; where they’ve previously worked, for how long, previous job titles and duties, references listed etc., but you will also need to do an accurate and thorough background …