Active Screening Blog
EEOC & FTC: 5 Things Every Employee Needs to Know
Welcome to the final post of our 3-part series analyzing a joint effort by the EEOC and FTC to give employers and employees the scoop on background checks.We started with a breakdown of the entire document that was co-written by the government agencies and released in...
Recruiting Trends: A Breakdown of Big Data
Big Data – I've been seeing this term pop up a lot lately. You could almost call it an HR trend. But what is it? How does it help recruiters? Does it actually help recruiters? What are the pros and cons? These are questions I am going to answer in today’s post. What...
EEOC & FTC: 8 Easy Steps for Employers
This week we’re doing an analysis of the recent EEOC and FTC joint written effort to better inform employers and applicants to the rules and regulations of background screening for employment purposes.If you need a refresher, click on this post for the basic concept...
Active Screening’s Pick of the Week – Mar 31- Apr 4
Check out what the following blogs had to say about HR trends, news and more. Below is a list of our top five favorite posts from this week. Check back every Friday for five more! 1. AGENCY RECRUITMENT IS TOTALLY SCREWED: HERE’S WHY! Active candidates only make up a...
EEOC and FTC Joint Guidance On Background Screening
Someone forgot to tell March that it was supposed to go out like a lamb. The old saying, “If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb,” has filtered down through generations of folks who, for various reasons according to the Farmers’ Almanac, believe...
The Tale of the Fake Diploma: A Staffing Nightmare
School: a majority of the population spends almost a quarter of their life there and sometimes longer. When you think about that, it’s no wonder that it feels so good to have a college degree. You put 20 + years into that degree, you worked hard – late nights at...
The Benefits of Compliance Automation
Compliance automation. Big words. Lofty topic. Sounds intimidating, right?Unless you’re already an expert in background screening (if so, we should talk!), you may not have a clue what compliance automation is and what it can do for your business.We’ll get to that...
Criminal Records on a Federal Level
Everyone commits youthful transgressions. Maybe you switched around your neighbor’s lawn ornaments. Or toilet papered a few trees. Innocent fun. But there was that one thing your parents always warned you about – mailboxes. Don’t mess with a mailbox, it’s a federal...
Roles in Compliance: Furnisher, CRA, End User & Reseller
We started last week explaining what it means to be Consumer Reporting Agency and examining credit protection. Here’s a snapshot of what we learned: * A company is a CRA if it assembles and evaluates consumer report information and provides those reports to third...
Active Screening’s Pick of the Week – Mar 24-28
Check out what the following blogs had to say about HR trends, news and more. Below is a list of our top five favorite posts from this week. Check back every Friday for five more!1. If Great Talent Walked Through Your Door, Would You Recognize It?Facebook made a big...