Background screening today in the USA incorporates both private and public records when vetting candidates for respective positions in organizations all over the country. Many companies have chosen to perform these background checks in house for years, but now are considering outsourcing this part of Human Resources. And for good reason… With negligent hiring lawsuits looming one must make sure that employment screening programs are not discriminatory and that they are not breaking any local, state or federal law. In light of this it makes a lot of sense for organizations and corporations in the USA to outsource their background screening needs to professional background screening companies that make it a point to assist their clients in being compliant with relevant and industry laws. These professional background screening companies know their industry well and are much better equipped to pull the most accurate, relevant and up to date background reports on behalf of their clients for a modest fee. It may be a good time to really consider outsourcing your background screening requirements to a proven professional background screening company. Read new industry press release, “Background Screening the Right Way” to learn more.
Using a Professional Background Screening Company Makes a Difference
More Tools for Human Resource (HR) Professionals
Is it time to add driving records and professional verifications to your background screening program?
New press release makes a great case for adding driving record checks and professional verifications to the pre-employment background screening of new hires. While running a criminal background check and Social Security number search is essential in attaining the background information sought after on those new job applicants, performing a professional verification like employment verification or education/credentials verification could be just as important. Depending on the position being sought to fill a driving record check may make since too, especially if the job position requires driving a company vehicle or driving in general while on the clock.
By outsourcing your verifications to a company like CriminalBackgroundRecords.com you are making sure that you are getting FCRA compliant professional researchers conducting your credentials, personal, professional, educational or employment verifications for you. It typically takes 3-business days to complete verification, and is well worth the wait as they will quickly prove or disprove information entered by the potential new hire on their job application.
Summer is near– Time to Consider a Background Check on that Temp Hire
It is wise to vet part time workers with a proper background check before hiring
The economic recession certainly is not over, but summer jobs are growing as businesses are more likely to hire part time help instead of taking on full time employees. Since companies are not required to offer the same benefits to part time employees as they are with full time employees the financial risk and burden of part timers are much more preferred than full timers. Part time employees are widely considered a lower risk for a company than hiring a full time employee. However, if proper employment screening for part time workers is not in place or ignored than the risks, costs and potential reputation loss can make them much more risky than fully vetted full time employees.
Temporary workers, part-time employees and seasonal employees should all be vetted the same as full timers to protect the company, existing employees and all those that these part timers come across while on the clock representing your company.
Performing a social security number trace and criminal background check (usually a national background check and then county background checks at places where red flags were raised) is a quick, affordable and reliable way to avoid hiring a criminal, sex offender or person with a penchant for violence. It is clear that a part-time or seasonal worker can be just as disruptive and costly to an organization as a full time employee can be.
Full article: Summer’s Coming: Background Checks and Temporary Hires
Now Ordering Driving Records Online is Simple
Driving Record Searches now Available to Monthly Billed Clients
If you are an employer that performs criminal background checks on potential employees and occasionally need to run driver history checks on some of them you can now do both at CriminalBackgroundRecords.com. Not all job functions require a DMV check or motor vehicle history search but if you are going to have employees be driving company vehicles you are going to want to place a DMV/MVR background check on them first.
To order driver history reports on CriminalBackgroundRecords.com you need to first be signed up as a monthly billed member of the site. If you go to the sites order page now, you will notice there is no input fields to place driver history searches through. That is because the site has decided to make driving record searching only available to its monthly billed employment screening clients. To become a monthly billed employment screening client of CriminalBackgroundRecords.com please send an email to bd@infoeinc.com and representative will assist you.
CriminalBackgroundRecords.com makes placing driving record searches easy and simple on its ordering page and allows employers to place multiple background checks on the same applicant within one quick order. You can place a DMV check, criminal background check and social security number validation together in one simple order, saving you time and consolidating background reports.
Full article: Now Offering Driving Records in all 50 US States
Modern Age of Information Interchange and Employment Transiency
A good time to double check your employment screening list
For US Businesses looking to take advantage of modern age background screening tools this article lists them out nicely and explains each their respective usages along with the benefits they bring.
With electronic data at our fingertips all day via any computer with Internet access, going to a site like CriminalBackgroundRecords.com to pull instant background checks fits nicely into today’s technology luxuries.
Utilizing social security traces to get previous addresses allows employers to pinpoint where they conduct criminal history checks. Taking some time to review your employment screening process may result into creating a new process that incorporates instant criminal checks, SSN validation, professional verification and perhaps even a federal court search.
Full article: Employment Screening Checklist for United States Businesses
A National Criminal Background Check is not the same as a Federal Court Search
Today a national criminal background check includes felony and misdemeanor conviction records from county and state courts. Currently there are 46 US States that are included in CriminalBackgroundRecords.com instant national background check.
The Federal search that is also offered by the site pulls criminal records from the Federal court system. A Federal search involves some manual labor and therefore cannot be completed instantly as a national background check can.
A national background check is simply the combination of 46 separate statewide criminal background checks. As such, the national background check can retrieve criminal records from a long time back, sometimes decades old if one of the states it includes in its search has criminal history records that are stored from that far back and are available for instant online gateway retrieval.
The Federal Search only goes back 7 years except for a few Federal Courts that don’t even go back that far, however there are well over 300 Federal Courts so only 1% of them do not allow CriminalBackgroundRecords.com to go back 7+ years. Even though the Federal search is not instant, most Federal search requests take less than 1 business day to complete.
Full article: National Criminal Background Check verse Federal Court Search
Landlords and Renters Agree!
In January 2011 Information Enterprises launched TenantScreeningUSA.com a co-branded tenant screening web site that caters to landlords, small property management companies and renters.
The new site offers a tenant screening solution that satisfies the demands of a landlord while protecting the personally identifiable information of the renter. It accomplishes this feat by having the renter login to the site upon the landlords request and then initiates the retrieval of their own credit report by properly answering some verification questions proving they are who they are and then the renter consents to having their background reports sent to their new potential landlord. The beauty of the system is that once the landlord gets the renters background information sent to his computer via the Internet, the reports purposely omit the personally identifiable information of the renter so everybody wins.
Full article: Tenant Screening that Protects Your Personally Identifiable Information
Seasonal Hires and Your Company Reputation – How a Criminal Background Check can Help
Anyone that wears your company uniform or works on your staff including seasonal or part time employees still represents you and your company. With five finger discounts and free handouts to family and friends benevolently being distributed by part time workers can cost your business lots of money and even worse destroy that great reputation it took you 20 years to build.
Running an instant criminal background check and social security validation is a fast and efficient means to mitigate the risk associated with seasonal and part time employees. Part time employment is necessary for businesses that experience higher demand during the holiday season, but if they are committing fraud, embezzlement, theft, property damage or destroying your hard earned reputation the benefits they bring quickly fizzle into impediments.
Full article: Holiday Hire Background Check – Seasonal Employee Criminal Background Check
Risk Mitigation Background Screening
Concise Listing of Potential Risk for Employers and Landlords that Background Screening Tools help Mitigate
Risk mitigation protects employers, landlords, apartment managers/owner and individuals from potential harm.
This risk mitigation educational article explains clearly and specifically how the element of background screening if done properly with the full utilization of today’s background check tools can be a cost effective and reliable way to protect people, property, finances and reputation.
Find out how companies use a criminal background check, social security verification, and an education and employment verification to protect themselves from unnecessary risk.
Full article: Risk Mitigation Background Screening
Finally Employment Background Checks designed for Human Resource Professionals
From a look into the day to day responsibilities of human resource professionals in the United States the creation of a new background check system emerged that provides quality background checks and screening packages at an affordable price.
Not only does the system give you more for your employment screening dollar it also supplies formatted criminal reports and other background history report in an intuitive and easy to understand way. Placing orders is faster and can include multiple background checks within the same order minimizing data entry and allowing for all your search results to come back as one complete order and be available for viewing online and printing.
Employment background checks are essential to any effective employment screening process, but CriminalBackgroundRecords.com is showing that they don’t have to be a headache or budget buster to be successful.
Full article: Employment Background Check for HR Employment Screening