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Understanding Compliance With the Fair Credit Reporting Act Compliance Regarding Background Checks

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is one tool that can be used by employers to help streamline the decision-making process and is legally permissible in most states. The FCRA can even be used to evaluate current employees for retention or promotion. Let’s take a look at what this legislation is about and the steps for compliance.

User Experience and Background Check Vendors

Have you ever wondered what your business needs to consider before picking the right background check vendors? Well, we’re glad you asked. We here at TruDiligence have 4 key questions that are important to think about before deciding which background check provider your business should go with. Question 1: Does the Provider Match Your Organization’s Business Strategy […]

Pre-Employment Screening: When Background Checks Make Headlines

“The Trump administration has put the safety of thousands of teens at a migrant detention camp at risk by waiving FBI fingerprint checks for their caregivers…according to an Associated Press investigation and a new federal watchdog report.” — AP 11/28/18 No employer wants the kind of attention that negative news story headlines can generate. And yet, there […]

How to Streamline Your Employment Verification Process

It’s important to perform the proper background checks when screening for potential employees. At the same time, you want to avoid wasting your time performing background checks on people who won’t be good prospects anyways. Here are some tips on how to streamline the employment verification process to better eliminate employees who won’t make a good […]

Selecting a Background Check Provider

As a business owner or someone who works in the Human Resources department, your workplace will need to choose the right background check provider. They will act as a partner to help you get the job done. A good background check provider will deliver results and reports that will mitigate the risks of a new hire. […]

The Importance of NAPBS Accreditation

In the background screening industry, professional accreditation matters. And as time goes by, we find it matters more, not less. Especially to earn NAPBS accreditation. Like most industries, background screening has benefited from ever-improving technology and especially, automation. But accreditation goes deeper than the tools and techniques an organization uses to provide services. The accreditation […]