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How Do Background Checks Help To Create A Safer Workplace?

Oct 14, 2022
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As per a Career Builder report, around 75% of the hiring manager survey says that candidates may lie in their resumes. Hiring such candidates can prove to be a liability for the organization. No matter you are a startup or an established company, hiring the right candidate promotes safety and leads to the company's growth. Yes, background verification check at regular intervals helps safeguard your company and ensure your workforce remains productive. And for business owners, maintai...

Background Verification For Hiring Remote Employees

Sep 21, 2022
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The employment process has been permanently altered in the wake of the pandemic. While a vaccine may reduce the number of people working from home, it's unlikely to change the trend toward more remote work arrangements. Likewise, business owners have taken advantage of the productiveness of remote work to adopt it as a permanent practice. A remote workforce means you never meet your new hire in person. An online interview process will only help you to determine the skills of the candidate. However, how can one be sure that the education, experience, job history, and othe...

Social Media Background Screening: Should It Be A Part Of Background Check?

Sep 07, 2022
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Hiring the appropriate candidate who fits the job role is one of the daunting tasks. But it also needs to be done precisely to avoid any sought of glitches when the organizations are hiring! Yes, social media of course is an essential aspect as it helps us socialize with friends, family, and colleagues, getting through the latest news and updates. But relying on social media for hiring candidates based on their profiles, is it OK? Of course, social media check may offer a holistic view of an individual and includes checking for the personal and professional lives of the...

Hire With Confidence: Need Of Background Checks In 2022!

Nov 12, 2022
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The biggest asset for the organization is the workforce, and it is their knowledge and ability that can not be replaced ever. Yes, hiring the right talent is a crucial aspect and great employees help you fulfill your goals, enhance productivity, boost sales, and ultimately contribute to a healthy work environment. Therefore, hiring an efficient candidate is one of the biggest challenges the recruiters and hiring departments face. They have targets to get the seats filled and hire the candidate for the position. But finding the wrong candidate is worse than finding none at all....

Everything Organizations Must Know About Address Verification: A Complete Guide

Jun 30, 2022
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The hiring team nowadays faces a lot of fraudulent activities and chargebacks that made organizations focus on a robust mechanism to verify the individuals. For authentic and genuine onboarding, an employee background check has become vital. It ensures you are hiring the right candidate and your organization is safe from different fraudulent activities. One such verification involves address verification, which has gained popularity over time, and there are many reasons behind it. Address verification has become the need for organizations that keep their business safe. A...

Provide Feedback Only Once With Our Employment Verification Services

Jun 16, 2022
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The IT sector is growing exponentially, and the organizations are in a rush to hire candidates in hundreds. Recruitment teams are burdened by the tight deadlines to hire efficient candidates, which often tempt them to go easy on the background verification process. Hiring departments thinks of employment verification as one of the most complicated processes that ultimately lead to a poor hiring decision. Employers often overlook background verification. But it is one of the most crucial aspects that helps them understand that the employee has not exaggerated their skills...

The Growing Need For Educational Qualification Verification

Sep 06, 2021
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Whenever a business hires a new candidate, it is an investment in time, money, and resources. Hiring entirely refers to the growth of your business. As your company grows, the risk comes along. You have to hire new candidates to continue the operations while ensuring that you make the hiring decision. Hiring a candidate who is accurate, reliable, and knowledgeable is a prerequisite to ensure your company grows more. Meanwhile, in a rush, the employer or the hiring team may fail to verify the exact qualification of the candidate. What looks like the most suitable candidate on the r...

A Complete Guide To Background Checks In 2021

Aug 25, 2021
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Finding the right candidate that fills in the position for the organization is one of the hectic tasks. The recruiter would check the resumes, interview the candidates and decide on whether to hire the candidate or not. The recruiters face many challenges during the process of hiring. What if they hire the wrong candidate that does not fit in the organization? Well, this could harm the reputation of your organization, the employees working within bring down their morale. Therefore, it becomes crucial for organizations to conduct

Real Impact Of A Bad Hire For Your Organization

Jul 26, 2021
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The recruiting teams at every organization are working hard, spending their time and resources to fill the position with the right candidate. They spend weeks advertising the job, short-listing the resumes, conducting interviews, and then onboarding the candidate. However, at a point, you realize that the candidate is not the right fit for the organization. From affecting the bottom line of the organization to financial consequences, the impact could go far beyond. While there is always a risk when you hire a new candidate, a background screening policy can help you mitigate...

How to Streamline the hiring process during the high Volume Recruitment?

Jul 15, 2021
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High-volume recruitment is a major challenge for the recruiters. It is the most arduous task faced by the recruiters. Making calls to candidates, shortlisting resumes, posting jobs, interviews, and document verification are some extremely labor-intensive and hectic tasks. For consistent results and to avoid any hiring mistakes, you need to have a defined process with proper tools and technologies. This guide has complete information that...

How Do Background Check Strategies Help To Minimize Post-Hire Threats?

Sep 01, 2022
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Employers nowadays are highly concerned about the risks associated with hiring. As per a study, the biggest security threat isn’t the cyberattack but the employees only. From data theft to workplace violence, these are one of the big threats that an organization faces. But the good news is that background screening can reduce the risk. While there may be other methods to prevent fraud, let us discuss here the role of employee background screeni...

Are You Scared Of Losing Candidates Because Of Background Checks?

Jul 01, 2021
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Impressed with the skills and resume of the candidate? But are you sure that the information offered by the candidate is exactly what they claim to be? Therefore, it becomes vital to safeguard the reputation of your organization and avoid hiring the unqualified candidate. Background checks offer the ultimate solutions here. Background checks should be an integral part of the hiring. Whether hiring remotely or in the organization, these checks are...

How Your Background Screening Partner Can Help During COVID-19?

Jun 25, 2021
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No matter what industry or sector you are working in, the pandemic has affected the hiring cycle and has disrupted the normal functioning of businesses. Even when some organizations are planning to reopen, the companies are still facing several recruitment challenges. Whether it is about hiring the potential candidate for the organization or managing the workspace operations, the need to recruit skilled candidates is crucial. It has become vital for companies to hire candidates seamlessly, even during a pandemic. Therefore, it becomes important for the organizations to have a trus...

Rectify All The Errors With Candidate Background Screening

Jun 17, 2021
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With huge competition and a tight job market, the applicants struggle to find their desired job. The candidates may lie, misrepresent and fake their resumes to secure a job position. Well, it is not only the candidate who struggles, but also the recruiting team faces many challenges. The recruiting teams need to ensure that the candidates they are hiring perfectly fit the organization. They need to be aware of forgery and have to maintain the reputation of the organizations by eliminati...

Mitigate the Risk of Background Screening Delays during Covid-19

Jun 07, 2021
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The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the normal HR workflow and hiring new employees is affected the most. Even if you are managing people for a decade, the past year for the recruiting team has been most challenging. As most companies are switching to remote working, the companies need to rethink the way and make changes in the entire hiring process. While there are companies who are not hiring during this time, but the essential industries such as Healthcare, the IT industry, retailers have increased the number of positions for which they are hiring. Although the org...

Background Check for Remote Workers During the COVID-19

May 20, 2021
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A background check is the most crucial part of the hiring process. The organization continues to grow and the employers are boosting up their business while hiring new employees. Whether the employee is working remotely or work from the office, they represent your organization. It, therefore, becomes necessary that the employee hired is of great caliber. A rigorous interview process will help you determine the skills of the candidate. But how does an employer know that the education details, experience, job history, and other details listed on their resumes are accurate?

How Technology is Transforming the Background Verification Process?

May 10, 2021
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The most vital function that HR has to play is hiring an appropriate candidate for the organization. An employee is the one who makes or breaks the reputation of your company. To verify numerous applications and hire the right fit are time-consuming tasks especially if done manually that ultimately end up with a lot of errors. Using the right technology during recruitment not only helps to improve efficiency but also saves a lot of time, money, and resources in the long run. There are high risks involved in hiring people without a background check and therefore the demand for...

Background Checks Helps to Enhance the Employer Branding

Apr 27, 2021
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Are you familiar with the concept of Employer branding which is the process of promoting an organization while managing and influencing their reputation among the choice of the desired target group? This helps the employers to engage the top talent. In short this is what helps you to get the best people to work with you. Say for example- working on Amazon, the company has a strong employer branding with good pay and many other perks in the office. Do you know, 69% of...

Why Accuracy is the Most Crucial in Pre-Employment Background Screening?

Apr 22, 2021
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Hiring a new candidate is a big responsibility for the organization and the employer. Analyzing hundreds of resumes for a given position makes it difficult for the recruiters to hire the right candidate. Due to the increase in unemployment, candidates are faking their resumes and offer insufficient information. Based on the incomplete and insufficient information the employer can not decide whether to hire the candidate or not. But unfortunately, the bad hire happens. So here the best scenario is realizing the mistake and don’t hire the candidate before they can cause r...

Is Vaccination Record Becoming A Part Of Employee Background Check?

Apr 15, 2021
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The coronavirus crisis has disrupted the workflow of organizations and many industries. But now the vaccine shot the employees are questioning “Is it mandatory to get a vaccine shot during the hiring?” The lack of immunization to the employees could harm the workflow of the organization, therefore getting a vaccination shot could become a potential requirement, with little or no exceptions. Does that mean that the vaccination shot will become a part of pre-employment screening? Or is it too early to tell? How serious is the Covid-19 and Vaccination situation...