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A New Era in Talent Management SystemsKristy Megna is Marketing Communications Coordinator for New Jersey-based iCIMS
Read more...Our friends over at the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS)recently published a tremendous resource that details everything employers would want to know about Verifications (Education, Employment, Professional License, etc.) and their value when conducting a thorough background check.
Read more...New FACTA regulations go into effect on November 1, 2008 and require the creation of a number of new policies and procedures for specified entities. Some of the regulations apply to all users of consumer reports, where others are specific to financial institutions and creditors. By Guest Author Pamela Q. Devata, Labor & Employment Attorney, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Read more...What is a background check, anyway? Why are they important? What makes an employeescreenIQ background check different? And more...
Read more...Legislative Updates
7/25/2008 Mass. Proposes Redaction of Identifiers: Bad News for Employment ScreeningThe state of Massachusetts is proposing some pretty significant regulations in order to protect privacy and limit the opportunity for identity theft. These measures include the following guidelines for court records:
Read more...This would have been a tremendous set-back to any organization who conducts background checks on potential job candidates in Rhode Island.
Read more...Upcoming Events
ERE Fall Expo 2008October 28-30, 2008 at the The Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, FL. The ERE Fall Expo explores a broad range of the most recent and relevant issues affecting the global recruiting industry.
Read more...employeescreenIQ Chief Marketing Officer, Nick Fishman will be speaking about Top Trends in Employment Screening for 2009 at a workshop for the Buffalo Niagara Human Resource Association (BNHRA).
Read more...October 12-14, 2008 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX The perfect event for healthcare HR professionals who are looking for effective leadership strategies, learning and knowledge sharing and, or for new practitioners in the industry.
Read more...White Papers
White PapersInformation on best practices in employment screening, privacy concerns and legal compliance updates.
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Rave Reviews for employeescreen Universityemployeescreen University is evolving faster than you can say . . . "employeescreen University". Check out some of the latest and greatest updates.
Read more...employeescreenIQ has been opposed to conducting National Criminal Database Searches as the sole resource for a criminal background check. That position has not and will not change. Where we have become not-so-publicly enlightened up until now is the benefit of conducting such a search as a complement to a thorough criminal record search.
Read more...Adverse information in a consumer report could be considered anything that contradicts information the applicant has provided during the application/interview process, or anything negative that turns up in the course of looking into the applicant’s background.
Read more...For those of you that conduct DOT drug and alcohol tests as part of your employment screening process, we thought we would share a great document prepared by the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary, entitled “What Employers Need to Know About DOT Drug and Alcohol Testing”.
Read more...Industry News
8/15/2008 Smaller Firms Vulnerable to FraudAmong other fraud prevention tips, it suggests small-business owners adopt a code of ethics for all employees, conduct thorough background checks on new ...
Read more...One week after ousting disgraced Minnesota transportation official Sonia Pitt from the job she found at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the massive federal agency has taken a new step to beef up its vetting of potential hires.
Read more...A federal list of suspected buyers of bogus degrees from a Washington state criminal diploma scheme includes a Chicago Public Schools instructor and five current or former Berwyn police officers . . .
Read more...In The News
Screening Employees (Human Resource Executive 8/18/2008)No background-screening system is infallible, as can be seen in the case of Bruce Ivins, . . .
Read more...The integration allows users to perform employment background checks by seamlessly and securely transporting the necessary data from iCIMS' Talent Management Platform to employeescreenIQ . . .
Read more...Now more than ever, hiring professionals need to be sure their employment screening firms are conducting thorough, detailed, background checks.
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