RELIABLE BACKGROUND SCREENING INDUSTRY NEWS AND ARTICLES

Background Checks have always been a critical piece of the evaluation puzzle when it comes to vetting candidates. The pandemic has changed the way many companies and organizations assess applicants. It is no longer uncommon to select a new employee, volunteer, franchisee, or member virtually, without ever having met the individual in person. Therefore, it is more important than ever to know the background of each candidate prior to making a decision on organizational fit. Before technology evolved, background checks entailed getting an authorization form signed by the applicants and faxing it over to the background screening company to process. Now, reliable [...]

Are There Not Instant Background Checks? In today’s world, computers continue to process at faster and faster speeds, and answers to most any question can be obtained in seconds by performing an online search. Further, if one were to google the term, “instant background checks,” almost 26 million results are now returned. It is therefore not surprising that so many people expect background check reports to be completed quickly, if not instantly. However, the plethora of sources offering instant background checks is very misleading. Companies whose main marketing point is “instant background checks,” tend not to be consumer reporting agencies (CRAs). CRAs [...]

For employers (and other companies and organizations), having attained a minimum educational degree is often a prerequisite for qualifying for a particular job (or for qualifying for certain franchises, or for some volunteer positions). However, employers and others oftentimes fail to verify the educational achievement, or worse, they rely on proof that the applicant provides. If a certain level of education is required for a position – whether it be a high school diploma, college or graduate level degree, or even a technical certificate – obtaining independent corroboration of the applicant having attained the necessary scholastic level is crucial. Why? Desktop publishing [...]

Delays in county criminal records searches is nothing new. Checking county courthouse records requires accessing each county’s records through the specific procedures that each jurisdiction has in place. Although “clears” or “no records found” can often be obtained the same day, when a “potential hit” (match) occurs, the process is delayed due to the additional research that must occur to eliminate or confirm the “hit.” However, during the current Covid pandemic, delays have increased significantly in numerous counties around the country. This is because courthouses have been closed at times, and even when they reopened, they generally have new protocols in place [...]