Active Screening Blog Posts
300 Businesses: 3 Off-The-Beaten-Path Steps to Reduce the Cost of Hiring
Here’s a stat that might the knock the socks off you: A survey of 610 CEOs by Harvard Business School estimates that typical mid-level managers require 6.2 months to reach their break-even point. Courtesy of this article on Investopedia, it’s obvious that hiring can...
Budget 2015: Have You Screened Your Background Checks Provider?
We spend a lot of time on ActiveCare discussing the importance of vetting your job candidates and existing employees. Just in the past six months, we’ve helped you to:Understand the roles in complianceImprove your candidate hiring experienceStrengthen your commitment...
4 Priorities for Non-Profits (why background screening is one of them)
Money is usually tight for non-profits. Unless you’re a huge national name, backed by celebrity endorsements, or have a super kind benefactor, you’re probably pinching pennies like the rest of us commoners. Whereas soccer moms like me can cut coupons, scan for online...
Budget 2015: 4 Steps to Define Your Screening Services Policy
Remember the Married With Children theme song? Performed by Frank Sinatra, ‘Love and Marriage’ became synonymous with TV’s Bundy clan (yes, the infamous hands-in-his-pants Al, wife Peggy and two devilish kids); never mind that the song actually won an Emmy in 1956....
Holiday Hiring Help – 5 Secrets to a Successful Season
They don’t call it ‘Christmas in July’ for nothing. Sure, summer’s middle month is primetime for big discounts as retailers try to move out leftover stock and make room for new additions. It’s also the time of year when stores (should) start making their hiring...
3 Surefire Ways to Find a Seasonal Job That Works FOR You
So, you’re finally ready to take on that holiday job this year. Maybe you have a better grip on your college course load. Maybe you’ve recently retired and don’t want to go quietly into the night. Maybe your 3-year-old daughter is finally in preschool and you’re...
Holiday Hiring Help – Five Types of Winning People to Fill Your Positions
Hiring seasonal workers should seem simple. You put a ‘Help Wanted’ sign in your storefront. People pop in to ask for an application. You schedule an interview. They show up (on time), look appropriate (business casual), and don’t use foul language. Voila - they’re...
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...
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...