Experience the Volunteer Difference
Volunteers and donors are the heartbeat of any nonprofit or religious organization. Without the power of a pool of talented, willing and motivated volunteers, nonprofits could not do all that [...]
Confirming Applicant Information is Essential for Proper Hiring
Your company is a great place to work. Applicants would do anything for a chance to join your team. Some of those applicants, according to studies, would even falsify information [...]
Have you verified your applicant’s resume?
We have all heard it before: Resumes today are rife with missing information, mis-statements, wrong titles or dates, and even out right frauds. Well known leaders have been fired for [...]
Name Changes Matter
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a commonly quoted part of a dialogue in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet argues that [...]
The Biggest Myth About Matching Records
I’m going to share a little known fact about background screening – an applicant’s social security number is not used directly in matching criminal records. Put simply, when PeopleFacts conducts [...]
The Meaning of Match
Searching for the needle in a haystack or a contact lens in a shag carpet are two great analogies for what PeopleFacts’s matching technology attempts to do in order to [...]
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 [...]