Protecting Personal Information: A Guide for Business

Safeguarding sensitive data is just plain good business. Are you taking steps to protect personal information?

To learn more about how you can implement these principles in your business, take the interactive tutorial.

How Credit Checks Affect The Decision To Hire

This recent poll by SHRM provides an up-to-date look at the impact of credit checks on the decision to hire. It looks at factors that have the most impact on hiring decisions, the reasons that organizations conduct credit checks, the types of job candidates most likely to be subject to credit checks and more.

The Small Business Owner Background Check Guide

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project, recently updated the Small Business Owner Background Check Guide.

This is an excellent guide to help businesses of any size learn the basic information about employee background screening. Here are links to the guide:

Small Business Owner Background Check Guide

1. Introduction
2. Background Check Primer: Know the Terminology
3. Employment Background Checks and Federal Law, the FCRA
4. What Can an Employer Find Out? What Is Off Limits?
5. Should I Hire an Outside Screening Company?
6. Background Checks: Not Just for Applicants
7. The Employer’s Obligations under the FCRA
8. Proper Disposal of Employment Reports
9. Workplace Investigations: New Rules for Employers
10. Special Rules for California Employers
11. Employer Checklist and Tips
12. Resources

Survey Results: Background Checks On Job Candidates

Why do employers conduct background checks?

Which positions require a background check?

What information in a candidate’s background report could have an adverse effect on the decision to hire?

In November 2009, SHRM conducted a comprehensive survey that looked at background checking on job candidates. The survey explored the primary reasons organizations conduct background checks, the categories of job candidates that are checked and other related topics.  Here is the survey in case you missed it when it came out.SHRM Background Check Survey