Great, New HR Technology for Background Screening - Simplifies HR Management
June 26, 2009
Take Control With Convenient Account Management Options Built Into Your Screening Software
Go beyond ordering and reports - simplify HR management and tap into powerful tools.
Our client module gives you access to features that streamline the whole screening experience.
- Modify email and fax information, notification preferences and company information in real time
- Sign up for regular screening statistics emails, giving a comprehensive summary of screening information on a daily, weekly or monthly basis
- View past invoices online and download useful documents such as release forms from your own secure site
- Administrative users can add, remove and manage other users online
- Permissions management allows you to limit specific user access as needed
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Cool, New HR Technology for Background Screening - Easy Applicant Management
June 26, 2009
Applicant Management Has Never Been This Easy Or Intuitive
Find and manage applicants and reports with ease
Our leading-edge technology features an advanced interface and powerful yet intuitive management tools.
- System tracks applicants in progress, completed applicants, those with missing information and those with hits or discrepancies
- Quickly search for individual applicants by name; system auto-matches first and last names and presents them for quick selection
- Advanced search - find applicants by SSN, DOB, searches ordered, date of order and more
- Icons quickly identify applicants with unread searches and status updates, those that need additional information and applicants with discrepancies
- Applicants and status updates are auto-marked as read - no need for an inbox or manual completion
- Easy-to-read report details allow you to quickly find detailed information, notes, documents and full reports
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The Hottest, Newest HR Technology for Background Screening - A Revolutionary Ordering Process
June 25, 2009
Ordering background screens is faster and more powerful than ever - for new and seasoned users alike.
Simplicity meets flexibility in a revolutionary ordering process.
We put convenience and ease into the ordering process with innovative web technology.
- Order a complete background check on one page, with simple controls to add, remove and edit search details, all on the same page.
- Intuitive workflow makes ordering easy
- Choose from convenient pre-built packages or save your own search groups for easy re-ordering
- Dynamically add and remove searches throughout the entire ordering process
- Strong data validation helps ensure accuracy
- System tracks your search price in real time as you add and change search requests
- Upload release forms and other documents at order time to greatly speed up processing
- Order additional searches for an applicant at any time after the fact
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The Hottest, Newest HR Technology for Background Screening
June 25, 2009
Your Background Screening Portal Has Never Looked Better
We’re pleased to announce the release of our newest background screening technology. It’s the most attractive, most intuitive and most user-friendly interface available in the industry.
Revolutionize the way you approach background screening with our visually stunning client portal
From the first moment you see it, you will be blown away by our easy-to-use and powerful client portal for ordering and managing background checks.
- Smart, effective layout and design
- Quickly review common report queues, including the Discrepancy queue for possible hits
- Quick search feature allows real-time applicant name searching without leaving home page
- Locate in-progress and completed applicants with ease, using visual guides and status icons
- Order searches from our list of pre-built packages, or customize your own for convenience
- Manage your account settings, add and remove users, and access statistics, past invoices and documents all from your secure portal
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Small Business Guide To Pre-Employment Background Checks
June 25, 2009
Business.gov helps small businesses understand their legal requirements, and locate government services supporting the nation’s small business community.
This site is easy to use and an excellent resource for small businesses. The Employment & Labor Law section covers the following areas:
Read How To Stay Compliant With Pre-Employment Background Checks.
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E-Verify for Employers in South Carolina and Mississippi
June 25, 2009
An E-Alert from Ogletree Deakins, one of America’s three largest labor and employment law firms:
- Starting July 1, 2009, South Carolina employers with 100 or more employees must perform a special verification for newly-hired employees. These employers will be required either to use E-Verify or review a qualifying driver’s license. State contractors with 500 or more employees became subject to the same requirements on January 1, 2009 (see Ogletree Deakins’ June 4, 2008 E-Alert for more information on the law).
- The Mississippi Employment Protection Act (S.B. 2988) phases in a requirement on employers to participate in E-Verify. On July 1, 2008, all Mississippi agencies and political subdivisions, all public contractors, and private employers with 250 or more employees became subject to the E-Verify requirement. On July 1, 2009, private employers with 100 or more employees will also become subject to the requirement (see Ogletree Deakins’ April 4, 2008 E-Alert for a complete review of the Mississippi law).
Read more tips on E-Verify.
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New Employee Screening Trend -Second Chance For Ex-Offenders
June 17, 2009
There is a growing trend in employment screening that places more responsibility on employers to analyze a past criminal record to determine whether there is a business justification not to hire a person.
From The Columbus Dispatch:
Schools Could Hire Former Criminals
Custodians, bus drivers, secretaries and cafeteria workers could work in schools even with a past drug or theft conviction under a new rule being considered by the State Board of Education.
Committing a sex crime, kidnapping and murder still would prevent someone from working in a school. But some people who have committed nonviolent crimes — including robbery, cultivating marijuana or drug trafficking — could show they have been “rehabilitated” under the proposed rule.
The proposal would allow people with those less-serious convictions that occurred well in the past — ranging from five to 20 years, depending on the type of crime — work in a school if they can show evidence that they have walked the straight and narrow since. It would apply to new applicants and current employees.
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Hiring Managers Are Checking You Out
June 10, 2009
According to a Jump Start Social Media survey that polled 100 hiring managers at small, mid-sized and large companies:
Three-quarters of hiring managers check LinkedIn to research the credentials of job candidates. Of the hiring managers surveyed, 75% use LinkedIn, 48% use Facebook, and 26% use Twitter to research candidates before making a job offer.
“Social media is not only a great networking tool, it’s also a way for employers to perform reference checks on job candidates,” said Veronica Fielding, president of Digital Brand Expressions and its social media service for consumers, Jump Start Social Media. “Because LinkedIn is the most professionally oriented of the three, it tends to attract hiring managers who are doing due diligence.”
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The One Thing Not To Post On Twitter
June 8, 2009
Are Colleges Spying On High School Students?
June 6, 2009
From The (Toledo) Blade
There has been a growing trend in recent years for employers to check out MySpace, Facebook, and, more recently, Twitter pages on the Internet to learn more about people applying for jobs. There even have been cases in which college students were denied degrees or certifications because of objectionable things posted on their social networking sites.
Now, high school students have cause to beware as well because a significant number of colleges are using these sites, as well as search engines, to research and evaluate applicants, even denying admissions or scholarships based on what they find.
According to the National Association for College Admission Counseling, 26 percent of college admission officers surveyed said they used Internet search engines and 21 percent said they used social networking sites to research prospective students. The survey of hundreds of colleges was conducted by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
In other words, it’s not just predators who might be monitoring the tweets and posts of teenagers. It also could be the people who decide where those teens go to college, which ought to make young people pause before they hit the send button to share with friends their latest exploits.
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