Needless to say, winter is an important time of the year for the retail industry.
This is, of course, reflected by data from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing a sharp annual spike in hiring temporary labor.
Screening Trends and Predictions for 2016
Making predictions about interesting screening trends for the next year is one of my most fun year-end activities, just marginally less exciting than the plethora of holiday festivities and family gatherings that are about to be unleashed.
With a customer base of tens of thousands of organizations, we at HireRight like to think that we have a fairly keen sense for the trends that are happening in recruiting generally, and background screening in particular.
In 2016, we believe a number of existing screening trends will continue to accelerate:
Background Screening Steps That Can Reduce Your Risk of a Bad Hire
Thorough background checks are a fundamental measure that employers can take to help minimize the risk of negligent hiring claims and other potential sources of liability that can follow and flow from employee misconduct.
Despite the increase in litigation against employers regarding the technical rules for obtaining background reports and the proliferation of so-called “ban the box” laws, there remain strong reasons for conducting thorough background checks.
4 Best Practices for Closing the Health Care Temporary Worker Screening Gap
Four approaches that organizations are taking to close the gap between employee and non-employee background screening to mitigate risks.
Podcast: Top 10 Key Findings from the Benchmarking Report, Finding #7
Discover the top 10 key findings from the recently released 2011 HireRight Employment Screening Benchmarking Report, a survey of more than 1,800 human resources and related professionals from around the globe. The report reveals key insights such as why, how and where organizations screen, the top challenges they face, and what kinds of benefits they […]
Overcoming the 4 Main Challenges of Health Care Contingent Worker Background Screening
Any worker hired on a temporary basis by a health care organization is known as a contingent worker or non-employee. Contingent workers can be directly hired by an organization’s human resources department or indirectly employed through a third-party vendor such as a staffing agency. HireRightHireRight is a leading provider of on-demand employment background checks, drug […]
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