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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...

How Recruiting Team can Avoid Wasting Time with the Right Screening Services?

Apr 05, 2021
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The employees are the main asset that helps to run your business successfully. Whether an employee is at a lower rank or the highest rank, every employee represents your organization to clients and customers all across the world. During recruitment hiring the wrong candidate can cost your business a lot of money. As per research, the monetary cost of hiring a poor candidate could be around 30% of the employee's annual salary. Not it involves the monetary cost, but also it is a huge loss of time and resources, setting down the morale and impacting productivity. The main reason...

How Can You Find The Right Background Screening Vendor?

Jan 23, 2023
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There are many things and factors that need to be considered before you choose a background screening vendor for your services. The laws that govern background checks are constantly shifting, the candidates are highly misrepresenting themselves. Therefore, selecting the right vendor for your background screening adds great weight. Why employers need Background Check services? For a successful organization and work culture, background checks are essential. You invite a candidate for a job interview, conduct an interview, and you think you have hired the perfect candidat...

Can Education Verification Protects your Company from Resume Fraud?

Mar 05, 2021
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One of the most common lie that a candidate tells is about their educational background and achievements. Can you believe that 27% of the job applications and resumes are exaggerated about their achievements or else contains the wrong information? It has become difficult to get away with untrue credentials when applying for a job. Therefore to safeguard your company’s and employee's reputation hiring smart is crucial. Yes, education verification is one of the vital and valuable tools that help i...

Are Job Interviews A Waste Of Time?

Feb 11, 2021
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Recruiters follow the same hiring process for every candidate. A job is posted, a candidate applies for it and then the interview is conducted. Based on the interview the hiring of the appropriate candidate is hired. Well, the process of hiring hasn’t been changed in years, and conducting an interview has always been a crucial part. Do you really think Interviews are Waste of Time? Even the most experienced recruiter can not judge an individual just based on the job interview. Whether the person sitting on the other side of the table is telling the truth or not?...

How Can You Safeguard Your Company’s Reputation With Background Screening?

Jan 29, 2021
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Employees are not simply the individuals working for you, rather they are the one who builds your company’s reputation. And therefore the organization wants to hire and surround themselves with reputed candidates only. When employees harm the client's work, it’s never an individual at the fault, but the entire company’s reputation is poorly affected. There are several ways in which a background check helps in screening the candidate with the red flag and marks a poor fit for the organization. Here are a fe...

Should You Review Candidates Social Media Profiles Before Hiring?

Feb 01, 2021
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There is no second thought that social media has changed the way businesses operate. Whatever you post on social media could have a serious effect on your professional life. As per research by GlassDoor 79% of job applicants use social media in their job search. A potential employer can gain a vast amount of information for the job applicant through Social media that includes: Verify previous employment, education, address, and more. Inform...

You are doing it Wrong, If you are Hiring without a Background Check

Sep 01, 2022
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Do you wonder what all are included in a background check? Why do employers need the background details of the employee? Well, read the blog carefully to find out! As per a survey, 95% of employers conduct background screening for new joiners during the hiring process. As the number of forged cases by the employees rises, the hiring department fears to interview candidates without a background check. And if your organization is hiring without a check on an employee, you are doing it wrong! What is Employee Background Check? As the name suggests, a b...

Avoid Hiring A Candidate With Fake Resume

Sep 01, 2022
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Did you know that 85% of employers caught job candidates lying on their resumes? How can you suspect a resume is falsified? Today’s job market is very competitive, and it has led unethical jobseekers to magnify their experience while faking their resumes. HireRight Survey finds 88 Percent of Employers have forged their resumes.

What Are the Ways To Prevent Workplace Violation?

Feb 20, 2020
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Technology evolves rapidly and so brings everytime with new breakthroughs and innovations. In the same vein, the technological security system comes every time with different new advantages and upper hands. Also, while owning any business, one can't get a single chance on the safety and security measures. Thus, businesses and companies implement every time the new security systems in their workplace. In the current scenario, where communication is getting fast...

Employee Screening Tips For HR Departments!

Feb 07, 2020
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Recruiting the right employees can make your business sink or swim. Thus, it's all in the company's recruiting team's hands. But the notable drifts in the technology over the past ages have a heartfelt impact on the hiring strategies. Today, multiple companies have integrated their hiring or recruiting services with employee screening services. Being an integral part of the hiring process, employee screening ensures you to get the right candidate as your potential employee. Effective employee screening and reviewing of the job candidates make the recruitment process easier and also...

Criminal Record Checks; Overcome The Cost Of Wrong Hiring

Jan 29, 2020
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Job searching is a tricky and tough task for both the job seekers and the employers. Companies daily conduct several interviews and hiring sessions, however, only a few get selected but both the employees and employers don't have an idea that whether the past-activities of the employee will interfere and especially if the activities are about criminal records. And that's why the criminal background check services have come into the practice to overcome the cost of wrong hiring and help the employers identify the candidates with their complete history including criminal, credit, and...

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