Use Background Screening as a Risk Management Tool

To avoid bad hiring decisions, employers have increasingly turned to background screening as a risk management tool.   Many see it as a critical factor for protecting coworkers, customers, patients, vendors, and anyone that may…

Making the Pre-employment Hiring Process Easier for Candidates

When most employers think about the pre-employment hiring process, they think about it from their viewpoint. Never mind what job candidates – future employees – have to go through to get hired. In the 2010 “Trends in Employment Background…

Sniff out a diploma mill grad with due diligence by TruDiligence

That potential new hire you just interviewed showed a lot of promise.  His past work history was average at best but with a new M.B.A he’s looking to move on to bigger and better things, right? Not so fast.  Diploma mills abound in the…

Does Your Temporary Employment Service Conduct Background Checks on Employees?

Tis’ the season to hire temporary employees. With that being said, have you ever considered whether your temporary employment service conducts background checks on their employees? If your company utilizes a temporary staffing agency…

Due Diligence Can Save Your Company

The process of due diligence can and will save your company a lot of time, effort and money. You know that you have to be able to trust every employee with corporate assets, and in order to do that, you have to know where they come from and…

Importance of Background Checks on School Employees

Kids run around on the playground, eat at lunch tables, and sit in classrooms and they have an adult on duty for each activity. So you would hope that the people they come into contact with are safe.  This is an important message from…

Lack of Background Check Can Lead to Workplace Theft

The benefit of owning a small business is that you know your employees so well. You’ve met their families at the company holiday party and watched their children grow. You trust them to be honest and fair. Besides, you hired them. Yet,…

Seasonal Employees Still Require Thorough Background Checks

A news story posted at HispanicBusiness.com recently announced that Amazon.com plans to hire hundreds of seasonal employees to staff a new Jeffersonville distribution center, in the Louisville, Kentucky metro area. They plan to fill “day…

Tenant Background Checks Ensure Quality Renters

Whether in an apartment complex or the home next door, we all have horror about bad neighbors. You know them as the ones who’ve had the loud midnight parties, barking dogs, and unclean areas. But to a property owner, they cause even larger…

Conduct Investigations before You Hire, So You Do Not Run into Problems Afterwards

According to an October 2012 Los Angeles Times story, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recently launched an investigation into the background of a new hire. Somehow, even with a history of violence and theft, the county hired…

Key to background screening — Get it right!

If your company uses or is considering using a contractor to provide background screening on potential employees or tenants, a new catchphrase is in place — Get it right! This year, much attention has been focused on background screening…

When Due Diligence Screening Turns Up a Lie

Americans lie all the time. In fact, according to recent research from the University of Notre Dame, most of us lie about 11 times a week. While the study goes on to say that lying affects your mental and physical well-being, it also can have…