Active Screening Blog
Identity Theft Week: Protect Your Online Privacy
By its very nature, a background check is an invasion of privacy. A screening company is verifying information to make sure it’s truthful and accurate and at the same time searching for past indecencies and indiscretions that may give an employer pause. It’s not that...
Identity Theft: My Screeners Did WHAT With My Applicants’ Info?!
Outsource. It’s a dirty word, but sometimes we all have to do it. This business practice of hiring someone from outside your company to complete a task is often talked about with suspicion, fear and disappointment. There’s Forbes analysis of Boeing’s outsourcing...
Ban the Box: Have a Criminal Record? Here’s How to Land Your Next Job.
Seventy million men and women in the United States have been arrested or convicted of a crime that will show up in a background check.Of those who were incarcerated, 50% of them will return to jail.So what will the other half do? In many cases, look for jobs.Ban The...
Structural Discrimination: Does Ban The Box Help or Hurt This Cause?
One of the trendiest phrases in fair hiring discussions is ‘structural discrimination.’ Its validity is somewhat similar to ‘disparate impact,’ a bit murky and debatable; nonetheless its popularity is gaining. All of Us or None, the non-profit agency who credits...
The Rise of the “Ban the Box” Movement: Ban the Box 101
Halfway through 2014, debates and discussions about employment law show no signs of slowing down.Sure, there are more pressing issues getting the bulk of national news coverage these days - Israel vs. Hamas, migrant influx into, and deportation from, the U.S., women’s...
How To Protect Yourself from an EEOC Lawsuit
There is a new ad campaign in Minnesota that is getting plenty of people’s attention.“It will never happen to me is not an emergency plan.”Plastered on billboards around the state, it’s an in-your-face reminder that disaster can strike at any time.If only businesses...
Small Business Bothers – Is EEOC Guidance Too Confusing to Follow?
By its very nature, something called guidance should offer just that - guidance. But some small business owners are claiming that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s ‘guidance’ on background checks is too confusing to follow.The issue stems from a 55-page,...
EEOC Guidance – Best Practices & why companies should be complying
Here’s a question for you: Do you think that everyone should be given a fair shot at, and equal consideration for, landing a job? That means everyone. Felons. Non-English speakers. People with disabilities. Elderly. Immigrants. Drug addicts. Muslims. Homosexuals. Sex...
Candidate Experience – Improve Without Breaking the Bank
Candidate experience is the name of the game this week. Take a look at these two posts to get caught up: How to create and define your candidate experience The good, the bad, the ugly - Interviews can make or break your candidate experience We’ve thrown a lot of do’s...
An Interview Can Make or Break your Candidate Experience
The good, the bad, the ugly - An Interview Can Make or Break your Candidate Experience You’ve heard the one starting, “A guy walks into a bar...,” right? Well, what about this one? “A job applicant walks into an interview...,” ...and has to wait an hour before the...