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Guam Motor Vehicle Records now available!
Corra Group is now offering Guam Driving Records (Motor Vehicle Records) through their state of the art software delivery system. Adding motor vehicle recordssearches to your background check program will provide you with greater insight into your job applicant’s civic behavior and fiscal responsibility. DUIs are reported, where sometimes they do not appear on a nationwide criminal search or a county criminal search. Driving Records are required for certain compliance related hiring.
Holders of Guam driver’s licenses are residents of Guam, and can include contractors on the island as well as United State Military workers. Screening your candidate’s Guam driving record can assist in uncovering moving violations that would otherwise remain hidden.
Guam driving records take approximately 10 to 15 business days to process and return
For more information review motor vehicle record services on Corra’s website, www.corragroup.com
Criminal Checks for International Candidates
Whether your contractor meeting government compliance or a firm looking to protect your reputation, it’s a good idea to run background checks on your international experienced hires. Although more costly than screening US Citizens, you will save money in the long term by protecting your brand and reducing any exposure to negligent hiring lawsuits.
So, what do you do next? It’s important to work with a company that has experience screening international candidates. If you are frequently hiring analysts and project managers out of India, its important to run India criminal background checksto make sure you aren’t sending a criminal to your client’s place of business.
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Background Check Turnaround Time an Issue for Jails
Turnaround times for background checks are an important issue for employers. Human Resources manager are anxious to onboard new hires and get them into the pipeline. Background checks are sometimes streamlined or sidelines altogether in order to fulfill a hiring need. A recent article about Luzerne County Correctional Facility is a lesson in what not to do. The warden admitted that in at least four situations, employees were put to work before their background checks were returned. And the background checks arrived on average of 56 days after the employee’s first day of work. Also, the background check results were claimed to provide little information beyond what is already available online. They appear to be using an public access Pennsylvania terminal for their criminal records checks, and handwritten interview questions for their education verifications and employment verifications.
Canada Criminal Records searches for pre-employment screening
Since the Ryan Jenkins Murder affair, there’s been much attention to the nuts and bolts of conducting background checks on job candidates from Canada. How are they conducted? Are they reliable? Can we trust the data we are receiving? Can we trust our vendor to oursource our background checks to an international researcher? Can we trust the foreign courthouse to keep adequate records?
When hiring a background screening company to run background checks on international candidates, ask up front how the background check is conducted. A professional screening company will conduct a check using their own resources or a thoroughly vetted vendor. They will also advise you about the efficacy of running background checks in the particular county you are interested in. For example, in Canada, conducting a Canadian Criminal Background Check can be accomplished by either running the nationwide CPIC search, offered through the Canadian Police Information Centre, or by conducting courthouse searches in the particular province where your candidate has resided. With regard to Ryan Jenkins, there is some indication that a courthouse search was conducted and the records were not there. If this is the case, then the court clerk possible missed the record and failed to provide it to the researcher. It is worth considering the quality of record retention in the courthouse before conducting your search.
As always, conduct a thorough background check on your candidates to provide a well rounded portrait. Depending on the type of job your candidate is up for, consider reviewing motor vehicle records for driving related problems such as DUIs and credit reports for financial responsibility issues. The more thorough portrait of your candidate you can achieve, the better you can evaluate their background to determine if it is a fit with your organization.
Pensacola naval air station conducting background checks on cabbies
Pensacola naval air station is conducting background checks on local cabbies who pick up and drip military personnel from the air station. The cabbies are not happy about. According to a news article, approx 3 percent of cabbies have been denied due to felony criminal records, active warrants,sex offenses, or another nebulous category that seems to include antisocial behavior as deemed by the base commander.
Airport Security Guard accused of threatening Barack Obama passed background checks
According to a newsday article, a Newark airport security workers was arrested for allegedly making a shoot threat against President Barack Obama. He had been working for the security firm for six years, and had passed the mandatory FBI and 10 year employment background check. The article goes on to suggest that the background check wasn’t enough, and that the employer should have conducted psychological tests on the candidate. However, they conceded, “It’s very hard to know what people are actually thinking” The arrested security guard was apparently overhead making threats against the President on a coffee break the day before the President was going to fly into Newark.
Recurring Background Screening
Usually a background check is a good indicator of future behavior, especially with regard to to anti-social behavior such as criminal activity or civil lack of fiduciary responsibility. Sometimes an employee can come onto a job with a clean record. However, as time goes on, your employee’s situation may change. Its important to consider conducting additional background screening for your current employees, including those up for promotion. Most trucking firms are required to evaluate driving records over time, as their driver’s driving habits may change. It is worth considering what sort of background check might be worthwhile for your firm to re-screen employees. Make sure you follow the requirements of the FCRA, and obtain permission from your employees to run background checks.
Protect your firm by running DUI background checks
A recent news article has Alton Mayor Tom Heochst instructing the police department to run background checks on “current employees who drive city vehicles who have lost their driver’s licenses because of DUI convictions. Anyone who turns up in the search with a suspended or revoked license – so far, two employees – is asked to sign an agreement to go on unpaid leave of absence.”
Background checks are a valuable tool for screening offer ready candidates. They can also be used to screen active employees, as the city of Alton is starting to do. Before you begin to expand your screening practice to including ongoing checks of your current workforce, make sure you are in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. You must always have your job applicants signed a consent and release form before running a background check. If you are going to screen active employees, make sure that release form includes language giving you the right to screen again once the candidate has been hired.
Recurring Screening
Some contracts and DOT regulations require annual screening of your driver’s motor vehicle records. Your driver may have had a clean driving record when they applied for the job, but after twelve months many things can change, including driving under the influence convictions, accidents, suspensions, etc. Make sure you are in compliance with your contracts by conducting ongoing screening. Your driver’s Motor Vehicle records can be accessed at Safeguard Screening in real time. We provide data connections to 50 states Department Of Motor Vehicles. Some states, like Florida, offer both 3 year and 7 year driver record reports. Make sure you check with your client to determine what type motor vehicle record report you need.
Motor Vehicle Record Fees on the rise as State Budgets implode
Several states have recently raised the fees for accessing motor vehicle driving records, which will impact the budgets of trucking and transportation firms, small and large. In some cases the state MVR fee hike is significant. Starting September 1st, Florida is raising their fee for a 3 year MVR driving record from $2.15 to $8.00, and from $3.15 to $10.00 for a 7-year driving record . While these fee hikes may help states with their budgetary crisis in the short-term, there may be sowing the seeds for long term economic problems. For larger multi-state firms, this fee hikes may force them to adjust hiring policies away from the states with the higher fees. States may lose out on a job growth in the trucking and transportation industries.
Recent State Fee Changes
Florida
3-year search: $2.15 – $8.00
7-year search: $315 – $10.00
New Jersey
fee change: $10.00 – $12.00, effective July 6, 2009
Vermont
Fee Change: $13.00 – $14.00, effective July 1, 2009
Ohio
Fee change: $2.00 – $5.00, effective July 1, 2009
Driving Record Searches are an essential part of a pre-employment background check as well as ongoing background checks for active driving employees. Driving Records provide records of DUI and other motor vehicle offenses that may not show up under a criminal records search.
Questions arise about background checks on airline workers
With the recent Air France airline crashes in the news, and the very publicized damage to a Southwest Airlines Flight recorded on cell phone camera, the scrutiny is returning to the ground, including how background checks are conducted on ground workers in avionics and airplane maintenance.
An Article in WFAA in Texas, discusses the troubling condition of the San Antonio airport, where 767 foreign mechanics have been hired in the past two years. These workers undergo a background check U.S. State department in their home country, but there is concern about the ability to conduct a proper international criminal record check.
“Criminal record keeping in much of the world is “nonexistent.” Moreover, some of the home countries of the mechanics do not have diplomatic relations with the U.S.”
We talk a lot about the problems of conducting criminal records searches in the United States. There are nationwide criminal database searches that are good in about 40 states, as well excellent county courthouse records going back at least 7 years as per FCRA guidelines. Federal Criminal records are also available on databases and researched at the courthouse by professionals.
International Criminal Records
In foreign countries, the criminal record searches vary depending on the record keeping quality of the country. In practice, if you are hiring foreign workers it is best to conduct a international criminal background check with a company who is knowledgeable about the criminal record keeping practices of each country. One company, Corra Group, has an extensive research network spanning the globe with local researchers on the ground. These researchers know their local courthouse traits and can provide the best in practice international criminal records.
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How run a background check on potential executives
Hiring a new executive today can be a frustrating and expensive enterprise. You want to attract and retain top management talent, but in this recession you might be hindered by a shrinking personnel budget and bewildered by the flood of seemingly qualified candidates’ resumes. Using a recruiter can assist in your pursuit of a qualified candidate but the commission rates can be expensive. You can save money by implementing an applicant tracking system, such as CATS (a SaaS) which will help you screen and filter job candidates based on qualifications. Candidates will signup for your jobs online on your website and provide you the application information, including a electronic signature.
Complete Integrated Background Screening
You may want to consider using Corra Group’s applicant tracking system, which is fully integrated with their background screening service. After you candidate’s have signed up, you can decided which candidates to send through the background screening process. Corra makes the background checks easy by providing you with various screening packages, including an Executive Screening Package called the “Corner Office”, which retails for about $179 per candidate. This package not only provided criminal records search, employment and education verification, but also looks for federal crimes and county civil actions. You can never be too careful in this age of corporate unethics.
Lastly, consider your overall background screening policy and decide whether to review social networking sites such as LinkedIn, etc. to determine if your candidate identity could be confusing to your public. As an executive, the public identity must be consistent or our corporate message is muddled up.