Active Screening Blog
Stuck In a Rut? 5 Ways to Boost Employee Morale
Culture. We know it’s important to you. You devour our collection of posts on establishing and/or improving company culture. These are some of your (and our) favorites: Top Talent for Top Dollar? Not if You’re Creative. Screening for Personality: Finding the Right...
Weird, Wild, Wacky and Totally True! Crazy Culture Coups.
Ping Pong tables. Kegs. Artsy workspaces.Karaoke. Treadmill offices. Naps. Beer Pong tournaments. The list of weird, wild and wacky company culture phenomena we’ve already heard of is pretty extensive. Big business names like Google and Zappos draw most of the...
When Your Company Culture Collapses – Here’s How to Fix It
Have you ever seen this before?There’s a little boy playing alone in a sandbox. He’s driving cars through the sand and using the rails as launch pads. The little boy is having a grand old time. Then, a big boy stops over and asks he can play, too. Sure, says the...
Active Screening Has the Industry’s Seal of Approval
School is revving up in some parts of the country and once again we’ll be entrusting the safety of our children to teachers, coaches and other educators. One Ohio school district is still reeling from the unbelievable discoveries of not one, not two, but three...
What Active Screening’s NAPBS Accreditation Means for YOU
When it’s time to work with a Credit Reporting Agency (CRA) for your background screening needs, it’s imperative you look for this seal of approval: This badge represents the 47 screening firms across the United States who have tested and passed a rigorous...
Active Screening Earns Prestigious National Accreditation
It’s not often we get to toot our own horn around here, so when we do we’d like you to imagine William Tell’s Overture playing in your heads. Here’s what we’re talking about... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoHECVnQC7A Active Screening recently earned a prestigious...
How To Define Your Social Media Screening Policy
“Legal experts have one main thing to say to employers considering using social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram as an initial job-candidate screening tool: Don't do it.According to a recent survey from Careerbuilder, more employers are turning to...
Don’t Get Caught in the Social Media Screening Trap
Who hasn’t snooped an old girlfriend’s Facebook page? Or checked out a former boss’ Twitter feed? Or kept tabs on a grad school rival through LinkedIn?Chances are, we’re all guilty of social media nosiness. On most levels, this is harmless fun fueled by envy or lust...
Social Media Screening – Right or Wrong?
There are a couple of ways you can interpret the title of this piece.Is screening someone via social media right or wrong?Is there a right way and a wrong way to use social media to screen someone?The answers are “kinda” and “absolutely.”Here’s the deal. We know...
Identity Theft Week: Keepin’ It Domestic
What’s your PII? We’re not talking about a delectable dish of warm, sugary fruit bursting from the edges of a buttery crust with a dollop of pure vanilla bean ice cream dissolving from the pie’s warmth (but seriously, wouldn’t a piece of blueberry be divine right...