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Beef Up Your Background Screening - Part II: Resume Verifications

It’s important to review your current background screening program at regular intervals, focusing on any adding new products that may enhance your...

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Beef Up Your Background Screening - Part I: Criminal

What goes into a typical pre-employment background screen? Criminal History, Verifications, and maybe some industry or position-specifics, such as a...

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A Complete Background Screening Program: The Re-Screen

A well-established program to background screen existing employees is important to any company.

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Making the Decision: My Candidate Has a Hit

Blanket policies and Criminal History checkboxes result with more and more employers defending discrimination allegations and fighting the EEOC. Are...

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Adverse Action Letters: Is it time to review your policy?

ad-verse ac-tion \ad-'vers 'ak-shən\ verb: In terms of background checks, an action that denies an individual employment, promotion, transfer, or...

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5 Common background screening myths… plus one for good luck!

Conducting a background check can sometimes seem like an intimidating process. However, employers and job seekers can take comfort in the fact that...

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Why using a professional agency for pre-employment background screening is best practice

By investigating an applicant’s history during the pre-employment background screening process, companies have the ability to gain insight into the...

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What are the key components of comprehensive criminal background checks for pre-employment screening?

The goal of conducting background checks on job applicants is to investigate an applicant’s history in order to verify various aspects of the...

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The Candidate Experience: Keep high standards for background checks

Job candidates can be the prime vocal advocates or detractors of a company’s brand.

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Why is it important to run a social security number validation and address history validation on all applicants?

Using a social security number validation is considered to be one of the most effective ways to start conducting a background check during the...

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