What are the most common types of background screening?
Nancy Lynn Roberts, Esq., of PeopleFacts, presents topics about the background screening industry. Listen as Mrs. Roberts explains how background screening can help your business or organization find the right [...]
Quality Hiring Decisions. Individualized Hiring Assessments.
5 years ago, hiring managers understood one simple concept - treat every applicant the same and you can eliminate discrimination in hiring. This "equality" mantra resulted in every hiring [...]
Are You Robert, Rob or Bob? What Name Should Be Searched?
As mentioned last week, when you provide us information and we start looking through millions of records to find any that match to the person you tell us is applying [...]
What Hurts and Helps Us and You, Part 1
More often than not, the problem we as a screening firm faces is that the information provided by our clients is insufficient for us to be able to find the record that ends up being found. A slightly different spelling, a typo in what is submitted, a failure to run a search on a former/nickname/alias name, a missing middle initial or suffix - all of these "incomplete" submissions result in one thing - missed records or wrong records.
Who are you?
Technology and automation has empowered organizations across the country to improve their ability to access information about individuals who are seeking to work, live and volunteer in their organizations. What [...]
The Annual Washington DC Report: Today’s Government Agency Perspective on Your Background Screening Program
Many of our clients are operating in an era of increased government regulation, heightened government enforcement activity and aggressive plaintiff’s actions against small and large businesses alike. The overarching impact [...]
Marijuana Legalization and Drug Testing
Now that Marijuana is Legal Can I Still Require My Employees to Pass a Drug Test? This is a question that our clients have been asking – especially those in [...]
TRAK-1 Celebrates RELIANT Release Partnering For Pre-Employment Assessments
Locally owned TRAK-1, an accredited national background screening company, specializing in solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, announced today that they have reached a partnership agreement with RELIANT, a leading regional talent management software and solutions company effective April 1, 2014.
Good Data Entry is Key to Proper Results
We’ve all been there - you come to an online form that is asking for dozens of pieces of information. So naturally you look for the standard little red asterisks [...]