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InfoMart’s Top HR & Background Screening Blogs of 2019

InfoMart

Throughout 2019, I’ve used this blog as a platform to educate, inform, and improve employers’ and candidates’ understanding of background screening. Busting 7 Myths About Background Screening. The background screening industry has seen a few moments of bad press.

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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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What’s Lurking In Their Background?

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

It’s the background checks. I checked every room as I walked down the hall. You had background checks conducted on these job applicants before bringing them onboard. A clean pre-employment background screening report won’t keep an employee on the straight and narrow after they’re hired.

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How long does a background check take?

Business Management Daily

However, a candidate’s resume doesn’t always give you the full picture — or the most accurate information. Running background check reports is helpful in vetting potential new hires to verify that they truly have the experience and credentials listed on their application. What are background checks?

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HR Basics: How Long Does a Background Check Really Take?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Conducting background checks on a perspective employee is a crucial part of any hiring process. Employment screening can take anywhere from one to five days in most cases. This often depends on the type of background check an employer is running and myriad other circumstances.

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7 Compliance Questions That Keep HR Professionals Up at Night

Sterling Check

Consider the slew of ban-the-box, fair chance hiring laws, and restrictions on the type of information you can consider in background checks. While these laws apply primarily to public employers and contractors, 14 states and 20 cities or counties hold private employers to similar standards. A new resolution, H.R.

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Best Practices for Hiring Remotely Amid COVID-19 and Beyond

Zenefits

Whether your industry has come to a complete standstill or is moving faster than ever will inform your hiring approach. In many cases, this will require starting from scratch and drafting up an entirely new hiring strategy reliant on virtual sourcing and onboarding. Schedule phone screenings and video interviews.