Tag: Background Screening Companies
5 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your Employment Background Checks
How do you know if it’s time for your company to upgrade its employment background checks? Whether it’s that uneasy feeling you get when you desperately need the results of a candidate’s criminal background check—and your screening provider isn’t answering the phone. Or maybe more than a few candidates have disputed the results of their background check—you’ve sensed that it’s time to search for…
Employers Rank Resume Lies Sure to Tank Employment Prospects
As with last yearâs survey, lying about a degree or diploma earned topped respondentsâ concerns, although the percentage fell from 84% last year to 75% this
Big Reforms Announced by Big 3 Credit Bureaus | EmployeeScreenIQ Blog
Later today, the big three credit bureaus, Experian, Equifax and TransUnion are expected to announce major new reforms on how they will report adverse information on a consumer’s credit report and the steps they will take when a consumer wishes to dispute the information.
Can You Deny Employment for Falsifying a Job Application? | EmployeeScreenIQ Blog
Most job candidates know that falsifying a job application is grounds for being denied employment. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always stop them from doing it, however most understand the consequences if they get caught. Conversely, most employers are conditioned to believe they are well within their rights to deny employment on the basis that someone lied on the job application.
News Flash: My Background Check and I Am Boring
I volunteered to be one of the guinea pigs for this new project and told our team to throw the kitchen sink at me in terms of background screening services ordered and products used. Why they were so excited about this new challenge, I’ll never know. You’d think they just walked down the stairs on Christmas morning and saw a treasure trove of new…
College Graduate Learns Painful Lesson About Resume Fraud | EmployeeScreenIQ Blog
The report indicated that when his new boss was hired by the company a few years before, she indicated that she had graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1988. When the assessment company went to verify the degree, the university said that they had no record of her graduating (by the way, why was an assessment company doing this?). They confronted her about…
Cost of a Bad Hire vs. Cost of a Background Check
They say a background check can cost someone a job, but what’s the cost of employers not doing a background check and making bad hiring decisions?
4 Considerations Before Hiring Convicted Felons
While reading Orange is the New Black recently, I was struck by a point the author made about the difficulties prisoners face when they’re finally able to leave prison and re-enter society. After living in an institution that supplies them with a job, food, and place to live, many are unprepared to step back into the “real” world.
6 Reasons Why Employers Detest Conducting Background Checks in New York?
The Empire State has got it all from my favorite city in the world, New York City, to Buffalo, Rochester and Albany. They’ve got the best pizza in the world, Buffalo Wings, Garbage Plates (see definition at the bottom of this post) and Wegmans (shout out to my friends from Rochester). And while the state has plenty to brag about, one thing is for…
EmployeeScreenIQ Recognized as Top Background Screening Provider
We are proud to announce that EmployeeScreenIQ has been included by Workforce Management Magazine on their “Hot List” of Background Screening Providers for the seventh consecutive year. The list recognizes the top background screening companies in our industry.
Think You’re Cut Out For Doing Employment Credit Reports? | EmployeeScreenIQ Blog
Given all of the existing limitations, companies need to weigh their options carefully when it comes to pre-employment credit. Not only are there legislative limits on the use of credit, but adding to the mix, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the trial bar are aggressively pursuing class action lawsuits in situations where they claim that the use of credit reports leads to…
Flaw in Employment Background Check Law is Hurting Candidates
Having been involved in the employment background screening industry for over twenty years one could say I have seen it all. I have seen class action lawsuits, congressional hearings, state hearings, and pundits slamming an industry they really don’t understand. Often critics don’t realize that there’s a loophole in the federal law (the Fair Credit Reporting Act) that was designed to help consumers but…
The Problem(s) with Ban the Box
Ban the box has gone viral. And while the removal of this little check box has potentially made life easier for job seekers with a criminal past, it has created much confusion and frustration for employers. If you haven’t been in the loop, “ban the box” is the catchy phrase that refers to removal of the check box on a job application asking whether…
Journey Through the SHRM 2014 Annual Conference
We wanted to feature the highlights of our time at SHRM this year talking employee background checks, as seen through some of our top tweets and photos.
Background Check Delay Story Makes for Bad Dinner Conversation
The natural tendency is to blame the background screening company, right? “Surely, they’re too busy otherwise the work would be completed.”
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