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The Most Important Public Records in a Background Check

Aug 3, 2021 | Blog, HR Best Practices

Any halfway-decent background screening that an employer runs on a job candidate is going to be checking through that applicant’s public records. However, when you get your report back, which records are the most important to look at? This is a trick question—they’re...

Should You Hire Someone with a DWI Conviction?

Jun 23, 2017 | Criminal Background Checks

Should you hire an employee with a background that includes a DWI conviction? This is a question that many HR managers ask themselves once they receive a background screening report on a potential employee, and it can be a tough question to answer. DWIs are the most...

Where do criminal background checks come from?

Feb 5, 2015 | Criminal Background Checks

The single source database and other myths of criminal background checks There is no single source for criminal background checks. There—it’s out. Many employment screening companies sell their customers on the national database search, but there are so many gaps in...

Social Media Screening: Enter at Your Own Risk

Dec 11, 2014 | Criminal Background Checks

More data is always better, right? Not necessarily, especially when it is being used against you. Twitter is now offering a complete index of every tweet ever, “a search service that efficiently indexes roughly half a trillion documents and serves queries with an...

Are You Doing Individualized Assessments?

Jul 30, 2014 | Criminal Background Checks

Recently, a House Subcommittee heard from the EEOC on individualized assessments and criminal background checks as a matter of policy. An attorney representing the U.S. Congress alleged that the EEOC’s guidance is faulty. Evidence of this was made clear when the EEOC...