Nevada DPS releases inaccurate background check information
And you thought you were going to get the job right? Mercury News has an article about how the Nevada Department of Public Safety inaccurately reported back minor misdemeanor crimes such as DUI records on thousands of individuals. Apparently most of the searches were for Gambling-related companies, that probably must have a high standard for criminal [...]
School Districts Failing to background check bus drivers
Are you children riding the bus to school in Missouri? A Missouri State auditor said that school bus driving companies are not always meeting the requirement for background checks and drug testing for school bus drivers and aides. The bus companies are apparently responsible for coordinating the background checks.
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If you are considering [...]
Why you should run motor vehicle records on your employees
Corra Daily Planet has a great article on the reasons for running a motor vehicle driving record (MVR Search) on your prospective employees and your current employees.
The fact is the Motor Vehicle Driving Records can tell you much more than just how your candidate is driving. This search can define behavior patterns and even indicate [...]
Background Checks & College Football : scoring a hit
South Carolina Gamecocks have begun running detailed background checks on all their pending coaches, administrators, and employees in response to recent probation by the NCAA. As we see in the sporting world, when you score a hit on your background checks, you protect your company and organization from a negligent hiring lawsuit and you play zone defense by preventing any negative press [...]
FBI Background Check System overloaded
The FBI is facing a technology crisis with new requests for background checks:
The Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that the FBI’s National Name Check Program is working with outdated technology, and that poorly trained personnel and overworked supervisors are falling far behind.
The name-check program and its FBI fingerprint database are the largest in the world, [...]
United Arab Emirates UAE International Education Verification
According to zawya.com, the UAE Ministry of Labour has stopped their educational degree verification system that has been used by ex-patriots at part of their job application process for working in UAE. The article doesn’t mention any reasons for abolishing the 2005 law, which was administered by the Minister of Labour. Perhaps the country is [...]
Why you should conduct background checks on volunteers
PNN online has a piece about a troubling lack of background checks on volunteers by the nation’s nonprofit organizations.
One in three U.S. nonprofit organizations conducts no background checks on volunteers, and roughly one in eight does no screening at all.
Accordingly, two-thirds of all nonprofits are conducting some type of background screening for their volunteers [...]
Pre Employment Screening is integral to your business
Reason.com wrote an article about the effectiveness of the electronic I-9 program called E-Verify.
From the perspective of an employer with a bunch of interchangeable potential hires, it’s most efficient to simply run everyone through the system and fail to hire people with problematic records. Pre-employment screening is illegal, but a study commissioned by the DHS [...]
Improve your employment screening practices
In-forum has an article about a North Dakota campus security guard named Moe Gibbs who killed a college student:
Gibbs worked as a campus security guard and Barnes County jailer. A less thorough background check came up clean on Gibbs because it did not catch criminal history connected to his previous name.
As with any level of [...]
South African Employment Screening
AllAfrica.com has an article about the critical need for background checks and pre-employment screening in today’s working enviromnemt.
companies cannot afford to be sidetracked by employee problems such as dishonesty, theft, false CVs, fraud or harassment.
They address the financial cost of employee violence, ineptitude, shrinkage, and stolen inventory. This article proves again that the value of [...]
