A Practical Guide to Adverse Action in Hiring

This practical guide is designed to help you avoid unintentional discrimination and promote fairness in your hiring process.

The Essential Employment Screening Guide for Employers

This essential guide offers valuable insight and tools to help you make better hiring decisions, avoid compliance mistakes, and build a safer, more productive workforce.

Hiring in a Ban the Box World

Learn how your hiring and screening processes will change in the face of Ban the Box legislation. As these laws becomes more and more common, employers need to be aware. 'Ban the Box' aims to …

Hiring Best Practices: Getting the Right People On Board

The future of every organization depends on having the right people in place. In this comprehensive, 24 page e-book, we cover topics to help you build a better workforce.

The Essential Guide to Social Media Background Screening

Our guide helps you navigate the treacherous social media waters and shows you how to use it as part of your employment screening process to yield better hiring decisions.

Tips for Job Applicants and Employees

The Federal Trade Commission's offers tips for job applicants and employees in its latest guide.

Individualized Assessments

This whitepaper looks at recently issued guidance from the EEOC concerning the need for individualized assessments. We offer a model you can follow to design a hiring process that is both fair to applicants and effective in managing your organization’s human capital risk. 

Human Capital Risk Management

Download this whitepaper to read an in-depth analysis of human capital risk management and the role of employment screening in reducing human capital risk.

The ROI of Employment Background Screening

What is the dollar value of your employment background screening program? How can ROI of screening be measured? In this white paper we've detailed a common sense approach to measuring the ROI of your screening efforts.

Pre-Employment Background Screening at a Glance

This free whitepaper presents a useful overview of pre-employment background screening, including the reasons to screen, the background screening process, types of background checks, legal considerations, and much more.

9 Tips for Selecting a Background Screening Company

Selecting a background screening company typically involves the process of asking for referrals or conducting an online search, reviewing the websites of several companies, narrowing down the selections to a few that appear well-suited, then requesting quotes from those top choices. Regardless of your needs, there are several important factors to consider in the process of choosing a background screening provider.

Managing the Risks of Your Extended Workforce

While an extended workforce can offer many benefits, it also brings clear risks that many organizations unfortunately fail to properly manage. In fact, while temporary, contract, and contingent workers often have the same access to company assets as traditional employees, 65% of companies fail to uphold the same screening requirements of their extended staff.

How to Build a Better Workforce with Pre-Employment Background Screening

Download this in-depth guide to learn why 80% of corporate America relies on employment background screening, how to build a background screening program, compliance issues, and much more.

The What’s What of Criminal Records [Infographic]

What constitutes a “criminal record” and how do you know what type of records to ask for in a background check? Our latest infographic provides a primer for understanding the criminal records landscape.

9 Hot Topics in HR for 2019 [Infographic]

Our latest infographic spotlights 9 key HR trends that will impact hiring and retention in 2019.

How Resume Lying Impacts Your Hiring Results [Infographic]

Our new Infographic, How Resume Lying Impacts Your Hiring Results, provides an overview of resume lying and how it affects your organization. In your defense, a reliable background check system is the first step.

[Infographic] OTR Driver Background Checks - Going Beyond Compliance

Learn what constitutes a thorough background check, the tangible value in doing the background check, and how to go about conducting it.

[Infographic] The Truck Driver Shortage - Fact Sheet for Hiring Managers

Our latest infographic explains the converging factors creating the problem and the stark reality of what needs to be done about it.

So, You’re Getting Background Checked? What You Need to Know

Help your candidates find answers to their questions, and some tips for having the employment background check process go well.

How To Hire 'Second-Chance' Workers [Infographic]

Our new infographic provides a clear path that can help employers to avoid negative consequences and potentially even identify excellent employees among ex-offenders.

[Infographic] Your Hiring Process: Tips to Bring the Right People On Board

This infographic, Tips to Bring the Right People on Board, summarizes why and how employers can design background screening processes to mitigate hiring risks.

The Employer’s Dilemma: Job Applicants with Criminal Records

The EEOC requires us to treat everyone the same, but assess them individually in regards to their criminal background. At the same time, workers, customers and the public expect us to do all we can …

Infographic: The Employment Screening Process

This infographic helps to pull the pieces of a model background screening process together in one place. This model can be adapted to your HR hiring practices and will help your organization comply with the essential requirements contained in the EEOC’s guidelines.

Infographic: Elements of a Comprehensive Background Check

Our latest infographic offers brief descriptions of various background checks, ranging from basic employment and education verification to more technical public records searches. These multi-layered, multi-year data sources can be extremely valuable for employers who know how to make use of them.

Infographic: 5 Key Areas of Human Capital Risk

This infographic  highlights 5 types of human capital risk: complacency, turnover, occupational fraud, catastrophic workplace events, and negligent hiring or retention.

Managing the Risks of an Extended Workforce

This infographic summarizes an employer’s guide to managing the risks and reaping the rewards of a contingent workforce.

Infographic: The Case for Pre-Employment Background Checks

This infographic illustrates why, in the process of evaluating a new hire, objective data from a background check proves vital to reducing hiring risks and enhancing the quality of your workforce.

What's Behind the Cost of a County Criminal Records Check?

There is no better source than county (a.k.a. local) criminal records for the most useful information about the criminal background of your job candidates and employees. The county court system is where most criminal proceedings …

Checking Employee Criminal Records? How Far Should You Go?

Employers universally turn to background screening to inform their hiring decisions and meet their compliance obligations. In fact, a recent HR.com survey found 96% of employers conduct at least one type of pre-employment check. Screening …

The What’s What of Criminal Records [Infographic]

Employers use criminal records checks to help assess a candidate’s background when making decisions about promotions, new hires, or contractual relationships. Looking at a person’s criminal history can help ensure the person doesn’t pose an …

Employment Screening FAQ Series: What’s Taking So Long?

The hiring process always seems to take longer than you want it to, so when you finally have acceptance on a contingent job offer, you don’t want any further delays. If you expect every background …

Employment Screening FAQ Series: Can’t I Just Google Them?

Background screening provides employers a level of assurance that they are hiring the right candidate for the job. When implemented correctly, screening can shed light on aspects of an individual’s background that might impact their …

Employment Screening FAQ Series: Can We Consider Arrest Records in Hiring Decisions?

When you’re trying to make the best possible hiring decision, criminal records are often considered an important source of information. If you want to know as much about a person’s background as you can, including …

Employment Screening FAQ Series: Can We Run Background Checks on Independent Contractors?

The modern U.S. workforce consists of 15.5 million independent contractors, or contingent workers, who depend on this type of work as their primary source of income. If you add in part-time or occasional workers, that …

Employment Screening FAQ Series: Do We Have to Follow FCRA Guidelines?

Today we continue our spotlight on some of the most frequently-asked questions we hear from employers concerning their use of employment background checks. This time, we focus on the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

Let’s …

Employment Screening FAQ Series: "What Rights Do My Applicants Have?”

As a background screening company, we field a wide range of questions from employers concerning their use of background checks in the hiring and retention of employees. Today we announce the start of a new …

[Slideshow] 9 Burning Issues for HR in 2019

It seems that hiring and retention are becoming more complex and critical every day. In turn, the job of HR is becoming more complex and critical. Consider the more than 180 federal laws enforced by …

Top 8 of 2018 From the Employment Screening Blog

It’s that time of year! Once a year we look back at the information you, our readers, were most drawn to. This year’s “Top 8 of 2018” list reflects a wide range of topics, from …

9 Hot Topics in HR for 2019 [Infographic]

It’s that time of year again. Yes, of course, the holidays. But in the business world, it’s that time where we reflect on the months past and set goals and priorities for those that lie …

HR Trends Series: Individualized Assessments in Criminal Background Checks

On April 25, 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued revised enforcement guidelines on the use of criminal records in hiring decisions. In its guidance, the EEOC sets out to ensure that applicants’ exclusions …

HR Trends Series: Ban the Box is Sweeping the Nation

Ban the Box—­the international civil rights movement aimed at persuading employers to remove the check box that asks if applicants have a criminal record from their hiring applications is more than a trend. It’s a …

HR Trends Series: Workplace Violence and the Increase of Active Shooters

Consider these sobering facts about workplace violence:

OSHA reports there are about 2 million cases of workplace violence reported every year.
Homicide is the 3rd leading cause of workplace deaths among healthcare workers and professional …

[Slideshow] 9 Burning Issues for HR in 2019

This slideshow features 9 realities that we believe will strongly impact your role in the year ahead.

[SlideShare] How to Evaluate the Results of a Background Check

Is that seemingly qualified, trustworthy individual you want to hire really safe to hire? Can you really know for sure? Companies use background checks to inform and improve the quality of their hiring decisions. However, many are unsure exactly how to evaluate the results of a background check report, especially how to handle a “negative” background check.

[SlideShare] The Candidate Experience: What Helps? What Hurts?

When you’re hiring, you want to maintain as much of a competitive edge as when you’re marketing for new customers. Since your employees are your internal customers, they deserve to have a great experience working with you from the very beginning - including the application, screening, and selection process.

[SlideShare] How to Avoid the Sting of Unknown Risks

By including HR threat assessments as part of your risk management program, your organization could predict, prevent, and mitigate damage from any human capital threat.

[SlideShare] 6 Tips for Screening and Hiring Drivers

Your driver represents your company. Everything he or she does in or around a vehicle with your name on the door reflects on you. This slideshow summarizes important factors employers should consider in hiring a driver.

The 'Second-Chance' Workforce [Slideshow]

Our slideshow on hiring ex-offenders describes how you can use background screening in compliance with applicable laws to thread the needle between risks.

Hiring the Right People [Slideshow]

Finding and hiring the right people for your organization requires a strategic approach to background screening and risk management. Learn more in this presentation.

Employment Background Screening: Commodity or Service [Slideshow]

Is background screening a commodity? Your answer to this question may impact how your organization competes in today's talent-driven economy.

"Triple Threat" to Your Employment Background Screening Program Part 1

In case you missed our webinar on June 12, 2012, watch the instant video replay here. This webinar is part 1 a series that discusses the triple threat of EEOC and FTC regulation, state and federal legislation, and private party litigation in the context of corporate employment background screening programs.

Background Screening "Triple Threat" Part 2

Our June 19, 2012 webinar was part 2 in our two-part series on the triple threat of EEOC and FTC regulation, state and federal legislation, and private party litigation in the context of corporate employment background screening programs.

Proforma Screening Solutions Partners with TEDS, Inc.

December 18, 2018, Purcellville, VA – Background and employment screening company, Proforma Screening Solutions, and TEDS, Inc., a talent management software company, are pleased to announce they have formalized their partnership by integrating their platforms …

Proforma Screening Solutions Achieves Background Screening Credentialing Council Accreditation

January 12, 2016 - The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS®) Background Screening Credentialing Council (BSCC) announced today that Proforma Screening Solutions has successfully demonstrated compliance with the Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program (BSAAP) …