SHRM Surveys Reveal 3 Out Of 4 Businesses Conduct Reference Background Checks and Criminal Background Checks
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer A series of recent surveys from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) reveals that when it comes to reference background checks and criminal background checks, approximately three out of four U.S. businesses perform these two types of background checks as part of their pre-employment screening programs. According to surveys conducted [...]
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Background Check Bashing -Either Too Much or Too Little Depending upon the Most Recent Headline
By Les Rosen, Employment Screening Resources The recent headlines dealing with background checks demonstrate that to some extent, Americans are conflicted about the whole topic of background checks. On one hand, as reported in past blogs by Employment Screening Resources (ESR), discrimination and privacy advocates feel that background checks are too intrusive and unfair. The EEOC has [...]
Categories: Discrimination, Employment Verification, Recent Posts, Risk Management, Trends, Workplace Violence Tags: background, check, criminal, employment, national, property, public, safety
Bank Security site interviews background check expert Lester Rosen
BankInfoSecurity.com, a leading information portal about Banking Regulations, has released an interview with employment screening background check expert Lester Rosen on the top ten trends in due diligence and background checks for 2010. The article is located at: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=2121 Senior Management level Bankers, IT Professionals, and Banking Personnel use BankInfoSecurity.com learn about Banking Regulations, Industry News, [...]
Categories: Banks and financial institutions, ESR, Lester Rosen, Recent Posts, Social networking sites, Trends Tags: background, check, employee, employment, international, national
Employment Screening Resources Releases Third Annual Trends for Pre-Employment Background Screening in 2010
Employment Screening Resources (ESR) a leading national employment screening firm based in the San Francisco area, has released its third annual Top Ten Tends in Screening and Hiring for 2010. ESR has identified new trends that are starting to make a difference, as well as old trends that have evolved as the screening industry matures and [...]
Categories: Best Practices, ESR, Human Resources, Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, best, check, criminal, employee, employment, international, national
International screening will be more prevalent
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Ten: International screening will be more prevalent Given the mobility of workers backcross international borders, international background checks have presented challenges for employers. There are 192 countries in the world (using the United Nations membership list). That means that there is a great deal to keep track of. Every country of course has its [...]
Categories: Best Practices, International Background Checks, Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, best, check, criminal, employment, international, national, online
Increased need for employer due diligence
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Nine: Increased need for employer due diligence Another impact of the recession is the likelihood of applicant fraud. Fraudulent educational claims, or worthless diplomas from degree mills, are already familiar problem for employers, recruiters and HR professionals. However, resume fraud took on an added urgency in 2009 with the advent of services that [...]
Categories: education, Employment Applications, Employment Verification, Recent Posts, References, Trends Tags: background, check, employee, employment, national, online
Screening expands beyond new employees to vendors and others on premises
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Eight: Screening will expand beyond new employees to vendors and others on premises This is another ongoing area that will heat up due to the recession. In a recovery period, employers typically turn to temporary employees before committing themselves to full-time hires. However, under the legal doctrine of co-employment, an employer has [...]
Categories: Continual screening, Recent Posts, Risk Management, staffing firm, Trends Tags: background, check, company, employee, employment, national, online, property, public
6. E-Verify and other government background check requirements
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Seven: E-Verify and other government background check requirements will grow The government’s efforts to require employers to verify eligibly for employment gathered additional steam when the rules for the use of E-verify for federal contractors finally went into effect in 2009 after a number of false starts. The E-verify system utilizes databases [...]
Categories: E-verify, Fingerprints, Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, check, employment, fbi, national, online
Increased technology and the end of paper and faxing for employment screening
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Six: With advances in database technology, and the general acceptance of the HR-xml standardization for database integrations, it appears that the use of paper and faxes is coming to an end. Not that “Going Paperless” is exactly a new development. Employment Screening Resources, for instance, has offered a totally paperless background [...]
Categories: Date of Birth, ESR, Recent Posts, Technology, Trends Tags: background, check, criminal, employment, national, online
2010 trend on criminal databases
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Four: The battle over databases will continue – the latest wrinkle is the proliferation of cheap “do-it-yourself” websites and even Iphone apps An ongoing area of controversy in the screening industry is the use of commercially assembled national multi jurisdictional databases. These databases are complied from numerous sources that will sell or make [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Criminal Databases, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, check, complete, criminal, employment, national, online