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Eight Warning Signs That Employers Should Reconsider Their Background Screening Providers
September 08, 2013 posted by Steve Brownstein
By Tom Ahearn
Since background checks are a crucial part of the hiring process in today’s business world, leading payroll and HR solutions provider Paycor® has teamed up with Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), for the whitepaper ‘8 Warning Signs You Should Reconsider Your Background Screening Provider.’ The link to download the complimentary whitepaper is available on the Paycor website at http://www.paycor.com/download-background-screening-whitepaper.
In the whitepaper, Rosen – author of ‘The Safe Hiring Manual,’ the first comprehensive guide to employment screening – emphasizes how background checks conducted on potential new hires need to be done legally and accurately by professional and accredited screening firms and not “data-vendors” that create more problems for employers than they solve. The whitepaper covers these eight warning signs that indicate an employer should take a closer look at their background screening provider:
1. DOES THE BACKGROUND SCREENING FIRM PROMOTE “INSTANT BACKGROUND CHECKS”?
2. DO THEY CLAIM TO HAVE A BETTER DATABASE?
3. DO THEY CLAIM DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH NUMEROUS COUNTY COURTS?
4. DO THEY USE “OFFSHORE” FACILITIES/WORKERS?
5. HAVE THEY BEEN ACCREDITED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND SCREENERS (NAPBS®)?
6. DO THEY USE HOMEBASED OPERATORS?
7. DO THEY FAIL TO PROVIDE CLIENTS REGULAR UPDATES ON LEGAL CHANGES?
8. HAVE THEY FAILED TO MENTION THE UPDATED U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION (EEOC) GUIDANCE ON USING CRIMINAL RECORDS DURING HIRING?
