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4 Tips for Improving Your Background Checks

InfoMart

4 Tips for Improving Your Background Checks. Running background checks on candidates is a crucial step in the recruiting process. But background checks can be tedious and difficult to navigate; many states have their own specific laws and requirements, such as Ban-the-Box legislation. October 4 2018.

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10 People Operations Tips for HR Leaders in the Cannabis Space

Zenefits

But with a 100% growth rate from 2016 to 2020 — doubling in size — the legal cannabis industry shows no sign of slowing down. It’s a tool for more than recruitment and retention … Company culture is the cornerstone that motivates and unites workers behind your company’s vision and values,” Raja added. Pick the right HRIS.

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Top 5 GDPR Hang-Ups in Background Screening

Sterling Check

As privacy professionals in the background screening industry, my team and I face daily questions about how to perform background screening and identity services in line with rapidly evolving global privacy rules. The GDPR poses some interesting problems when trying to develop a background screening program.

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Top 5 Background Screening Trends in 2016

Hppy

Background checks have been around for years. In the past, it was a bit harder, and the background checks reports were shallower, as most of the background checks were done manually. Besides these obvious changes, background checks have had several changes in the last few years.

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Think there’s no bias in your hiring process? AI says think again

HRExecutive

When Jahanzaib Ansari was looking for work in 2016, his resume was not the problem. ’ I went with variations of Jason, Jordan, Jacob, and literally in four to six weeks, I got a job,” says the CEO of Knockri, a technology firm that created an artificial intelligence tool that aims to reduce bias in the hiring process.

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4 Fair Chance Hiring Laws that Affect Job Descriptions

Ongig

To regulate how “justice-involved” people are treated during hiring, various fair chance hiring laws require employers to treat them fairly. These so-called ‘ban the box’ laws seek to give formerly incarcerated people a fair chance at applying for (and being hired for) jobs. What is fair chance hiring?

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Five Critical Steps of Criminal Record Check Compliance

Sterling Check

Each organization is unique and requires unique solutions for the hiring process to allow companies to hire with confidence. There are many types of background screening checks from criminal record checks to education and employment verifications to social media screening.