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• Category: Babysitters and Nannies
  • Background Checks Important for Foster Parent Placements
  • Has Your Babysitter Been Background Checked?
• Category: Background Checks and Screening
  • 7 Signs of a Highly Effective Background Check Company
  • What You Should Know About Instant Background Checks
  • A Hiring Manager’s New Year’s Resolutions for Background Checks
  • What is Negligent Hiring, and Why Does it Matter?
  • Name or Fingerprint Background Checks: What Is the Difference?
  • FCRA Compliance & Guidelines For Background Screening
  • Ban The Box In 2015
  • Verifying Educational Background: No Longer an Option
  • 10 Reasons You Should Run Background Checks for Every New Employee
  • Employment Verification: What to Expect in 2015
  • What Makes a Good Background Screening Company?
  • Social Media Background Checks – What You Need To Know
  • Does Having a Criminal Record Affect Employment Opportunities?
  • Background Screenings ban some parents from schools
  • Background Checks Lead to Charges of Racism
  • New survey says more employers doing fewer credit checks
  • Clearing up myths about background checks
  • Woman fired over 40-year-old shoplifting conviction
  • Three tips to get small business on track with background screening
  • Are you sure all your background check protocols are being followed?
  • More job applicants performing background checks on themselves
  • Be Clear About Background Check Policy to Ease Parents Fears
  • Contractors Who Work At Schools, Health Care Facilities Should Undergo Background Checks
  • Could a Background Check Save a Life?
  • Transportation Security Officials Rigorously Background Checked According to TSA
  • Selling Background Screening to a Challenging Boss
  • Executive Background Checks are Important, Too!
  • Don’t Hire White Collar Criminals
  • When Should You Bring Up Background Checks with Applicants?
  • Almost Half of Employers Do Not Background Check for Credit Problems
  • Background Checks Make Sense!
  • 5 Solid Reasons to Background Check Your Employees
  • Church Volunteers May Need Background Checks, Too
  • Does Advertising That You Background Check Net You Better Employees?
  • “Free” Background Checks are NEVER Free!
  • Background Checks – Part of the Hunt for Good Employees
  • Who Pays for Background Checks?
  • Do You Background Check for Every Position?
  • 5 Reasons Employers Don’t Background Screen, part two
  • 5 Reasons Employers Don’t Background Screen, part one
  • Changing Economic Conditions Warrant Background Checks on Everyone
  • NBA Background Checks – More Thorough Than Many Businesses’
  • Parents: Are the People at Your Child’s Summer Camp Background Screened?
  • Doing a Background Check? Follow the Rules!
  • Should Background Checks Be Used at Homeless Shelters?
  • Fake Degrees Affect Employers Outside of U.S.
  • Are the People Working in Your House Background Checked?
  • Employees Shouldn’t Blab about Background Check Results
  • Talk about Background Checks During Interviews
  • The Simple Way to Choose the Background Screening You Need
  • Referrals – A Great Job Candidate Source, but Don’t Forget to Screen Them!
  • Should You Background Screen Consultants and Contractors?
  • Background Screening — It’s a Matter of How Much, Not Should We
  • Parents Have a Right to Know Who’s Working with Their Kids
  • Legitimate Employers Don’t Ask for Background Screenings Upfront
  • Pre-Employment Background Checks – Right for EVERY Company
  • Some Organizations Aren’t Waiting for Background Check Results
  • Let Background Screening Complement Your Interviews… Not Replace Them
  • 10 Reasons Your Employees Aren’t Up to Par
  • Parents: Who’s Watching Your Kids When You’re Not There?
  • Background Screening and Employees – Let Them Know ASAP
  • Day Care Provider? Make Sure You Background Check Your Employees
  • The Best Temp Agencies Conduct Background Checks
  • What Types of Personnel Need Background Checks?
  • Employment and Education Verification Made Simpler
  • Could Knowing the Driving Record of Potential Hires Benefit Your Company?
  • Background Screening: The Do-It-Yourself Myth
• Category: Ban The Box
  • Philadelphia’s Ban the Box Law
• Category: Bankruptcy Report
  • Should You Hire Someone Who Filed for Bankruptcy?
• Category: Camps and Recreation
  • Parents Shouldn’t Assume That Camp Counselors and Coaches are Background Checked
• Category: Commercial Driving Check
  • Federal Commercial Driver Safety Background Checks
• Category: Credit Report
  • Reduce the Risk of New Hires: Credit Checks Can Help You Protect Your Company
  • Dont Let Poor Credit Be the Sole Factor For Determining Employability
  • What Happens if an Applicant’s Credit Report is Bad?
  • Job Hunters: Know Thy Credit Report
• Category: Criminal Checks
  • VerifyProtect.com services go above and beyond usual background check
  • Criminal Background Checks Come In All Scopes and Sizes
  • Criminal Record Not Necessarily Grounds for Unemployment
  • Are You Background Checking Your Seasonal Workers?
  • Another Story Where Criminal Checks Could Have Made a Difference
• Category: Diploma Mills
  • Diploma Mills Alive and Well
• Category: Drug and Health Screening
  • New year a good time to review, create drug policy
  • Mandatory Drug Testing: Dont Be an Unlucky Employer, Be a Smart One
  • Is It Legal to Deny Smokers Employment?
  • The Straight Dope on Drug Tests and Medicinal Marijuana
  • Does Your Child’s School Drug Test Educators?
  • More Proof That Drug Tests Can Be Life Savers!
  • In Today’s Economy, Pre-Employment Drug Screening Is Gaining Momentum
  • What Does the Billy Mays Cocaine Shocker Tell Us?
  • Drug Testing – What Will Your Employees Say?
  • Are You Drug Screening Your Interns?
  • Drug Testing: Big Enough to Bring Down Coca-Cola
  • Drug Screening — How Much is Enough?
  • Drug Testing: It Can’t Be Done with Your Eyes
  • Could Drug Screening Potentially Save Your Employees’ Lives?
• Category: employee handbook
• Category: Employment and Education Verification
  • Know what to ask and what not to ask during employment verification
  • More Jobs Require Background Checks
  • Importance of Employment Verification — “But He Said That Was Where He Worked!”
  • Education Verification – Anyone Can Write “Harvard” on a Resume
  • A Dubious Award for the United States – Diploma Mill Capital of the World
• Category: Employment Screening
  • When to Credit Check a New Hire
  • 10 Employment Screening Pitfalls to Avoid
  • Hiring Trends for 2016 — What’s on Your Horizon?
  • Periodic background checks a good follow-up to pre-employment screening
  • States propose anti-social media background check laws
  • Tips for employers on hiring smart
• Category: Fingerprinting
  • Fingerprinting — A Remarkably Old Method of Verification
• Category: Free background checks
• Category: Freelance and Outsourced Staff
  • 5 Reasons to Background Screen Your Freelance Staff
• Category: Hiring
  • Holiday Hiring In Full Swing
  • Does Your Company Have a Standardized Job Application?
  • Develop a Hiring Process… Today!
  • Common Background Screening Mistakes
  • Background Checking Takes Guesswork Out of Hiring Process
  • Both Employees AND Employers Benefit from Background Screening
  • Does Your Company Use Hiring Checklists?
  • 5 Low-Cost Ways to Ensure Your Hiring Processes are Solid
  • How You Treat Employees Could Translate to the Kind of Employees You Get
  • Can You Spot the Bad Job Candidate?
  • 10 Proven Ways to Stop Hiring Problem Employees!
• Category: Hiring Illegal Workers
  • Hire Illegal Workers at Your Own Risk
• Category: History
• Category: Holidays
  • Hire a Santa That’s Nice, Not Naughty
• Category: Identity Theft
• Category: In the News
  • Screening only one facet of avoiding, or catching, a criminal
  • Yahoo CEO latest to get caught padding resume
  • Airport security badges issued before background checks complete
  • Bank teller accused of theft was hired despite charges of forgery and theft discovered in her background check
  • Pepsi agrees to $3.13 million settlement for background check policy that violated Civil Rights Act
  • Juniata College passed on Sandusky after background check
  • Hotel Crime Shows Importance of Background Checks for Employees
  • Protecting Seniors with Caregiver Background Checks
  • How Rigorous is the Government’s Background Checking of Census Workers?
  • More Schools Requiring Volunteer Background Checks
• Category: Interviewing Tips
  • 5 Questions That Can Provide Better Background Info About Candidates
• Category: Job Applicant Lies
  • Background Checks Ferret Out Those Who Use “Diploma Mills”
  • Applicants Who Lie, part II – Jobs Held
  • Applicants Who Lie: Biggest Resume Lies
  • Applicants Who Lie, part I: Education History
• Category: Laws
  • EEOC creates new guidelines for employers using criminal records in employment screening
• Category: Laws & Legal Issues
  • Keep policy well defined to comply with EEOC guidelines
  • Is the Use of a Credit Check Always Legal?
  • What Cant You Find Out?: Some Personal Information Is Protected by Law
• Category: Medicinal Marijuana
• Category: Non-profits
  • Should Your Nonprofit Organization Make Volunteer Background Checks Mandatory?
• Category: Policy and Procedure Writing
  • Does Your Company Have A Social Media Policy For Employees?
• Category: Pre-Employment Screening
  • Know when to disclose background check policy to potential hires
  • Increasing demand for caregivers underscores importance of background checks
  • Flying the Friendly — and Safer — Skies
  • Avoid the Toxic Employee with Pre-employment Screening
• Category: Reference Checks
  • Applicants Who Lie, part III: References
• Category: Schools
  • School Bus Drivers Must Pass Background Checks
  • More Schools Implement Stringent Background Checks for Volunteers
  • Parents May Not Always Pass Background Screening Checks to Volunteer at Schools
  • Back to School Question – Are the Crossing Guards for Your Kids Background Checked?
  • Should School Board Members Be Background Checked?
  • What Happens When Employment Pre-Dates Background Checks?
  • More Schools Move to Background Check Parent Volunteers
• Category: Seasonal Workers
  • Dont make assumptions when hiring seasonal workers
• Category: Sex Offender Registries
• Category: Small Businesses
• Category: Social media background check
  • New survey finds 37 percent of employers use social media in screening process
• Category: Social Networking
  • Social media background checks can have implications of liability
  • Social media background checks come with potential complications for employers
  • Think Twice before Hitting That “Friend” Button
• Category: Sports
• Category: Uncategorized
  • Employers Need to Have Social Networking Policies in Place
  • When You Background Check, Youre Protecting Your Current Employees
  • Be Very Careful When Hiring Background Screening Agencies
  • Top 5 Excuses for Not Background Screening And Why They Are Inaccurate
  • Problem with Procedures Opens Door for Sex Offender to Work with Kids
• Category: Volunteers
  • It’s Time to Start Background Checking Your Volunteers