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.

Background Screening Services and Pricing

Our Service and Pricing Guide presents complete details about the many services we offer to help employers make better hiring decisions. Our guide includes descriptions and pricing for all services.

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.

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.

Do Background Checks Actually Stop Fraud?

Ethical employees are an obvious key to fraud prevention within any organization. But can you ever really know your employees are ethical before you hire them? In its 2018 Report to the Nations, the Association …

4 Ways Pre-Employment Screening Generates Value for Your Company

You’re about to make a hire. So far, the candidate checks out on paper and in person, but you have yet to perform a formal background check. Is the final background screening really necessary?

Screening candidates …

Can Background Screening Help Reduce Hidden Biases in Your Hiring Process?

It is assumed that hiring decisions are based solely on the professional skills and qualifications of each applicant. In practice, however, our decisions can be influenced by many other factors that we may not even …

Should You Check Your Employees' Federal Criminal Record Backgrounds?

Hiring a new employee is a complex, multifaceted undertaking. On top of identifying a qualified candidate who will be the right cultural fit, it is also your responsibility to build a safe and productive workforce. …

When Should Employers Use a National Criminal Database Search?

Background checks are an important part of the hiring process. However, not all background checks are created equally. While local county criminal records offer the most accurate information to employers, they come at a higher …

The Millennial Churn: What It Means for Employers

Turnover is always a concern for employers. Among many issues, the loss of an employee means the loss of the investment you put into hiring and training that person, the loss of institutional knowledge they …

How the Opioid Crisis is Impacting Employee Drug Screening

Drug abuse is on the rise across the United States and prescription opioids top the list for substance abuse. Between 1999 and 2014, prescription opioid sales almost quadrupled while the amount of pain reported remained …

How to Adapt Your Screening Processes to the Growing Contingent Workforce

Today, 34% of the American workforce is made up of freelancers, contractors, or gig workers. This group, known as ‘the contingent workforce,’ is steadily growing. To give you some perspective, between 2014 and 2017, the …

11 Facts that Should Impact Your Employment Screening Practices

Hiring a new employee costs between $1,000 to $5,000, depending on the nature of the hire. The cost of a bad hire is even greater, more than $25,000 in 41% of cases. With these costs …

3 Key Aspects of the EEOC Adverse Action Guidelines

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issues its guidance on many employment-related topics, but the Enforcement Guidance regarding arrest and conviction records is one of the more compelling and important items for employers, as …

What the Law Says About Adverse Action

Adverse action in employment (the process of denying an employment opportunity to a candidate or employee because of something revealed in a background check) can land an employer in a rugged territory of cross-cutting laws …

The Case for Re-Screening Employees

While pre-employment screening is commonplace in the hiring process, re-screening is notably less so. In fact, 48% of employers do not re-screen employees after the initial background check.

To protect the safety of your workplace and …

5 Questions to Test Your FCRA Adverse Action Smarts

Are you up to speed on adverse action? HR and hiring managers need to understand the rules and requirements of the adverse action process in order to maintain a hiring approach that is fair to …

10 FCRA Adverse Action Dos and Don’ts

When you’re considering denying employment as a result of a background check, your adverse action process takes over. The Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires that employers follow a process that begins before a …

How to Explain FCRA Adverse Action to Your Applicants

Sometimes the person you are considering for employment gives you a reason to reconsider. When this “reconsidering” is due to information found on a background check you’ve ordered from a third-party provider and you decide …

[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 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) …