Many people outside the law enforcement and screening industries believe that a fingerprint-based criminal check is the ultimate determinant of criminal history.
What is a credit report? Why are they so difficult to understand? Why are they so long?
EmployeeScreen University is evolving faster than you can say . . . “EmployeeScreen University”. Check out some of the latest and greatest updates.
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.
Less may no longer be more when it comes to employment verifications.
While the precise content of the SSN Trace cannot be considered 100% conclusive, no criminal background check should be considered complete without referencing this important tool.
So you’re looking to hire an applicant that has lived or resides outside of the United States? You should still conduct a background investigation, right? Far too often, well intentioned HR executives and recruiters overlook this vital step in the hiring process, thinking international background information is either inaccessible or unduly expensive. Increasingly, U.S.-based companies [...]
When personal privacy clashes with the public’s right to know
When it comes to these tools, know what you don’t know.
Obtaining federal government contracts can be lucrative and highly competitive. Some individuals and business entities, not content to have won a hard-fought battle for a good piece of business, may seek to unethically exploit a business relationship with the federal government. Those that have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, so to [...]



