Background Screening: What You Don't Know Can Hurt Your Organization

Performing background checks is critical. You can improve applicant quality, reduce theft and violence, and protect yourself from negligent hiring. But not knowing what makes a good screen or the differences in data can make a background check useless. You also must keep up with changing regs regarding criminal records while there's no education. You will learn:

·         The real reasons you should perform employee background checks and the components of a truly comprehensive
          background check – what you need and what you don't. 

·         Where criminal records come from, what constitutes “good data” and the differences in manual county searches vs.
          online instant searches, and the dangers instant data poses. 

·         About “order review” and why it's important, fingerprinting (and why it's not), credit reports (can I run them?),
          and federal searches. 

·         Who regulates background screening and why, common compliancy problems and how to avoid them,
          including applicant authorization forms, adverse action, and what charges you can consider and for how long, including
         state and federal regulations.