The last two years have brought a significant evolution in the regulatory and legal environment of employment background screening. As a result, many employers are eager to audit and update their screening programs to help protect themselves from litigation or other legal actions. To help organizations with this process, it may be helpful to review […]
While the share of workers who test positive for illegal drug use has dropped significantly since 1998, the rate of workers testing positive for prescription drugs has skyrocketed. Quest Diagnostics, a leading drug testing laboratory network, reviewed more than 125 million urine tests administered since 1988. Seventy-five percent of drug tests were conducted for pre-employment […]
Background checks would be simpler if one all-encompassing database housed every piece of relevant information an employer needs to make an informed hiring decision. But, unfortunately, that resource does not exist. Nor is there a standardized checklist an organization can follow to ensure its searches return all the information necessary to fully evaluate a given […]
If you’re looking to start an employment background screening program from scratch, you may be overwhelmed by where to start. And if you already have such a program in place, you may be wondering if your program is as effective as it can be. In both situations, it may be helpful to begin with the […]
If you’re a fan of movie or TV crime dramas, then you’re probably familiar with that one moment that always seems to happen in these works of fiction—when the lead detective orders a junior officer to “run a background check on the suspect” and, amazingly, a few clicks of the keyboard later, they’ve got everything […]
Despite what movies and television would have you believe, there is no one-size-fits-all background check that reveals every pertinent detail of a person’s life in a five-second flurry of keystrokes and mouse clicks. In fact, no single database exists that compiles, so neatly, quickly, and accurately, all of the information you’d want to know about […]
