August 31, 2009

How to Avoid Six Common Errors in Background Screening

Employment background screening has become an extension of the HR function. In fact, more than eighty percent of large companies in the U.S. now perform criminal background checks on all new hires and most companies are expanding their efforts to include checks of employment history, education verification, credit history check, driving histories and more employment background screening services. Background checking is so much a part of the corporate mainstream that it is now integrated into e-recruiting software so that HR pros can initiate check...


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August 27, 2009

HireRight Employment Screening Benchmarking Report Now Available

Management teams depend on information to support strategic and tactical decisions that affect their organizations. Increasingly, this information includes the best practices of peers. Such information, commonly known as benchmarking data, enables an organization to compare themselves against others and evolve their own practices. The HireRight Employment Screening Benchmarking Report 2009 reveals common workforce screening policies and practices to provide information organizations can use to help advance their programs by identifying stren...


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August 24, 2009

Mitigating Extended Workforce Risk

No one has to tell a security professional about the growing importance of background screening. More than 80% of large U.S. organizations now perform some kind of criminal background check on potential new hires, and more and more companies are checking employment history, education, driving records, credit history, sex offender registries, restricted parties lists and more. Clearly the drive to background screening is prompted by the desire for a safer workplace, the need to hire better people and threats of litigation for negligent hiring and r...


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