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Backgroundchecks.com Introduction Video Background Screening 101

Backgroundchecks.com Introduction Video

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Do Executives Really Need Background Checks? Background checks for employers

Do Executives Really Need Background Checks?

Filling C-suite executive positions within your organization is a high-stakes proposition with far-reaching implications for everything from brand ima...

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Drug Roundup at Elementary School Yields Criminal Janitor with No Background Check School and Education

Drug Roundup at Elementary School Yields Criminal Janitor with No Background Check

Late last month January, Beaumont Independent School District in Texas performed a routine drug roundup in their schools. Though it is not unusual to ...

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Recruiting Foreign Healthcare Workers Health Care

Recruiting Foreign Healthcare Workers

We could soon see the arrival of tens of thousands of foreign healthcare workers in the United States thanks to a bipartisan effort in the United Stat...

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Tenant Background Checks Continue to Spark Controversy Real Estate

Tenant Background Checks Continue to Spark Controversy

More legislators are pushing for significant restrictions to tenant background checks. We examine bills that could change screening protocols for hous...

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How Medical and Medical Device Companies Rely on backgroundchecks.com for Employee Vetting | A Case Study Health Care

How Medical and Medical Device Companies Rely on backgroundchecks.com for Employee Vetting | A Case Study

In the medical field, trust is a priceless commodity. Whether it’s the trust between a medical device company and its customers or a doctor and her pa...

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Understanding the School Background Check for Chaperones School and Education

Understanding the School Background Check for Chaperones

Those chaperones watching children on field trips are safe, right? Maybe not. Learn about the risks and explore school background check solutions now.

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Survey Shows That Majority of Employers Are Using Criminal Checks, Drug Screenings Criminal background check

Survey Shows That Majority of Employers Are Using Criminal Checks, Drug Screenings

Most employers are conducting criminal background checks on candidates, and most have implemented drug testing procedures. These findings and others w...

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Pizza Chain and Major Bank Sued in Class Actions for Technical FCRA Violations FCRA Compliance

Pizza Chain and Major Bank Sued in Class Actions for Technical FCRA Violations

Plaintiff's law firms are suing large employers for technical violations of the disclosure requirements of the FCRA. At the beginning of the summer, w...

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Social Media Background Checks: Relevant or Not? Social Media

Social Media Background Checks: Relevant or Not?

Since the advent of Facebook in 2005, the average person has developed a much more substantial online presence than was common before that point. The ...

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Adapting to the Realities of Job Screening During a Pandemic Background Screening 101

Adapting to the Realities of Job Screening During a Pandemic

If there was a talent crunch before the outbreak of COVID-19, its severity has doubled since. For employers, the challenge of hiring the best individu...

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New Long-Term Care Criminal History and Patient Abuse Background Search Program Implemented for Connecticut Home Health Agencies Criminal background check

New Long-Term Care Criminal History and Patient Abuse Background Search Program Implemented for Connecticut Home Health Agencies

Home health agencies in Connecticut are now subject to Connecticut’s long-term care facility law. Subsection (g) of section 19a-491c allowed the Depar...

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