Two recent settlements announced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) drive home the point and serve as an important reminder that employment background screening is subject to the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). You, as an employer, should understand how the FCRA relates to your employment screening program and ensure that your consumer reporting… Read more »
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Test Your FCRA Knowledge for Employment Screening
When your company has a job to fill or when you’re considering promoting or reassigning employees from within, a background check is often a requirement. Employment background checks can assist you in making a final decision among a narrowed-down group of applicants or candidates by verifying that the candidate meets established job-related criteria. Employment background… Read more »
[INFOGRAPHIC] The Case for Pre-Employment Background Checks
When hiring people to represent your organization, you want to feel confident that you can trust these individuals to represent the best interests of your organization. For some employers, it’s enough to simply conduct an interview, check a few references, and hire away. But for the more than 90% of corporate America that relies on… Read more »
As if We Need Another Reason for Employment Background Checks…
The recent killing of a North Carolina store manager and her unborn child shines a bright light on the risks employers take when they fail to conduct a proper employment background check. The alleged story goes like this: Around two months after being released from a two-year prison stay for felony robbery and breaking and… Read more »
Top 10 Employment Screening Articles of 2011
From the Proforma Screening Solutions Blog, we’ve rounded up the most-read employment screening articles of 2011. Interestingly, these articles also touch on many of the most significant trends in background screening industry today. Read and comment! #1: EEOC Focus on Criminal Background Checks Underscores Importance of a Holistic Approach This article was our #1 most-read in 2010 and… Read more »
Background Screening or Finger Crossing: Which Should You Rely On?
Let’s face it. We all want to trust the people we choose to hire. And it sure would be nice to avoid the time and expense of running employment background checks on each and every employee for each and every position. But sadly, we just don’t have that luxury in today’s litigious world. One University… Read more »
Employment Background Checks Gone Wrong
ABC News released an article on August 29, 2011 covering what can happen when consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) provide employers with misinformation. The article, “Background Check Wrongly Says Job Seeker is Sex Offender,” recalls the story of an individual who was in the final hiring phase for a new job when a background check wrongly… Read more »
Doing Nothing May Be Better than Doing it On the Cheap
Mark Twain famously said “A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.” Okay, so maybe that’s a little harsh but the fact is, in the case of employment background checks, you can easily find yourself on a slippery slope when you put your trust in a cheap one. Let’s get one thing straight. MOST background… Read more »
“Unemployed Workers Need Not Apply.” Where’s the Logic in That Talent Acquisition Strategy?
Today’s job market is not the best it’s ever been. Not even close. With more than 14 million Americans officially unemployed (just over 9% of the population) and almost half of those jobless for more than six months, chances are good that an employer with positions to fill will have applications from individuals who are… Read more »
Background Checks or Checking the Box: What’s Really Going On?
Joelle Scott wrote an insanely good article on her company’s Corporate Resolutions blog on Forbes.com this week where she looked at the recent Wall Street Journal report of Nasdaq employee Donald Johnson (a so called, “fox in a henhouse”), who plead guilty to securities fraud in May 2011. Johnson had a history of drug abuse… Read more »
