By Pam Devata & Paul Kehoe, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP Two years after the EEOC adopted its criminal background check guidance, confusion still remains for employers attempting to comply with the guidance. While it is clear that employers should not maintain bright line prohibitions against hiring any felons for all positions, the parameters of a lawful […]
Hiring top talent and minimizing the risk of bad hires are essential goals for all organizations. After all, employees are the face of organizations to both customers and the world, and high-caliber employees who deliver on their commitments are a keystone of building great organizations. Creating effective hiring practices, including employment screening, are an investment […]
If you are considering changing your current background screening provider, you may find it difficult to gain support at the executive level. After all, this type of change can be potentially disruptive to your business. However, there are many reasons why you might want to switch to a new provider including – performance issues such […]
Updating your HR policies probably isn’t on the top of your to-do list. Although this dreaded task is often put off until the last moment, that doesn’t diminish its importance. Whether the change is for legal reasons, or because a change in operations has made it necessary to update the policies, there are some surefire […]
To address the very commonly reported “talent gap”, many employers are looking outside their country’s borders to source talent with sought-after skills and experience. In fact, according to HireRight’s 2013 Employment Screening Benchmarking Report, more than half of employers are actively recruiting people who have lived, worked, or studied in another country. These employers are […]
The lingering impact of the global recession coupled with a reported lack of qualified talent have led many employers to seek out non-traditional approaches to managing talent, like asking current employees to take on additional responsibilities, sourcing employees with foreign backgrounds, and looking to contingent workers to take on business-critical duties. Unfortunately, as revealed by […]
