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Criminal History and Discrimination: Assessing Applicants Properly

Accurate Background

While there may be additional considerations, such as legal compliance, every justification for pre-employment screenings eventually comes back to safety and security. The key to achieving those goals fairly comes down to having a solid screening policy. It’s a subtle but critical difference.

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What Happens If An Employee Fails a Drug Test

Peopletrail

No employer is comfortable handling a drug menace with potential job applicants, or even with existing employees. And yet, it is vital that every company has an air-tight policy to deal with this kind of problem. Like pre-employment screening, promotion to the higher role with security-based responsibility, etc.)

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Using personality tests in the workplace

Insperity

Five-Factor based personality tests are best for: Pre-employment screening Generating meaningful interview questions. PI assessments are well researched , and they claim their tests do not discriminate between protected classes, are culturally neutral and are available in many languages. Strength Deployment Inventory.

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The Hot Potatoes Of Social Screening

TalentCulture

And, because of the industry I’m in and the perspective I usually take, I imagined if I were an employer looking at public candidate profiles across social and professional networks as part of my pre-employment screening process, finding these horrible hot potatoes along the way.

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Hiring biases and how to minimize them with background checks

Peopletrail

The United States of America strongly frowns upon all forms of discrimination, especially in the workplace. Individual employers and companies understand this and address this through vigilant HR policies. You see, discrimination is often sub-conscious and many times unintentional. Outsource background checks to a vendor.

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Increase Hiring Success with Behavioral Style Assessments

Close HR Connections News & Insights

Every employer wants to choose a job candidate who they believe is the strongest, brightest, and best culture fit for the company. Assessments can predict how well employees will work together, and if the candidate will be a good fit for company culture.“. Beware of Unintentional Discrimination. Types of Assessments.

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Global Background Checks – 5 Things Your Specialist Should Know

Peopletrail

If you are among the elite list of companies that have an international presence, then you understand the challenges of maintaining consistency across your global workforce. This means that at some point, your “global” company will have to align with native culture. Global Background Checks are a bigger challenge then it seems.