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Four Tips to Improve Workplace Health and Wellness

Creating a culture within your workplace that sets a standard of health and wellness for your team, is important.   Establishing simple goals for employees that go beyond the office, will help them maintain a healthier work-life balance.  Focusing on their health and wellness can be a benefit to everyone involved, including your organization. Here are a few ways to get …

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Are You Employment Background Check Savvy?

As an HR Manager, do you think you are background check savvy?  Take our quick employment background check trivia quiz to find out if you really do know your stuff! Q1 – What percentage of employers conduct background checks? 67% 96% 83% 52% Q2 –  Authorization and Disclosure forms can be combined per the FCRA. True False Q3 – What …

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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 …

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TAKING OUT THE TRASH TALKERS: Office Gossip

Office gossip is one of the quickest ways to lower employee morale and decrease productivity. According to stats from the Huffington Post, if a company has 200 employees and each employee spent one hour a day trading gossip, that would result in $160,000 of lost productivity each month. That’s a loss of $1.92 million a year (based on $40 p/hr, salary …

Brian D. Chapman, CEO, Keynote Speaker

Brian D. Chapman, CEO of MBI Worldwide is currently scheduling speaking engagements for the Summer 2016 Human Resources Conference and Meeting Season. KEYNOTE:  Brian Chapman, CEO With over 18 years experience in the employee background check industry, Brian has built MBI Worldwide, Inc. into a leading brand in the national employee screening circuit. He brings with him a dynamic personality, as well as incredible management experience and knowledge of safe hiring …

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MBI Worldwide’s Top 10 Employee Background Check Blog Posts

You asked, we delivered.  Here is a list of MBI Worldwide’s Top 10 employee background check blog articles of 2015. Identity Theft in the Background Screening Process How Well Do You Really Know That Job Applicant? It’s Time To Analyze Your Background Screening Program Bad Guy, Nice Suit MBI’s Background Screening and Best Practices Guide Ban the What?  Oh Ban …

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BAD GUY, NICE SUIT

We’re taught at an early age to not judge a book by its cover. AND THEN WE GET JOBS IN HR… I’m totally kidding. Often times it’s because we think the worst of someone based on his or her appearance.  Someone covered in tattoos or piercings or an unkempt look may get a bad reputation right off the bat.

LEGISLATIVE ALERT: COMPANY PAYS OVER $700K TO JOB APPLICANT

HR People, did you hear the one about the guy that walked in for an interview, his background came back wrong, he never received adverse action, then the company paid him $700k? Not funny, is it? What just happened here folks, is ANOTHER class action lawsuit.