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Back to the Basics: Public Access Terminals and Criminal Researchers
Editor’s Note: We’re excited to announce our new “Back to the Basics” series, wherein we’ll take an in-depth look at some of the ins and outs of the background check industry. We’re starting off this week with a behind the scenes view of criminal research featuring...
In The World Of Background Checks, Enough Is Never Enough
by Wayne J. Jung When I started in the background check business, one of the first things I learned was that no “silver bullet” reporting solution exists. Which I understood to mean, despite the use of an overused analogy, that there wasn’t one single report that...
Fingerprints Can’t Be Faked, But The Records Are Not Always As Thorough As You Might Need Them To Be
According to The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), which is maintained by the FBI, there are currently 78-million subjects in its criminal master fingerprint file. When you take into consideration that slightly more than one in three...
What is the CFPB and why does it matter to the background check industry?
by Thomas Wright, Satisfaction Executive SELECTiON.COM® The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been in the news a lot recently with its first and only director, former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, stepping down the day after Thanksgiving and...
Continued Breaches of Large Companies Leaves Many Asking “How Secure Are We?”
by Brian Huseman, Satisfaction Executive SELECTiON.COM® How does your hiring process account for data security? With the recent surge in security breaches at companies like Equifax, Yahoo, Verizon and Uber, just to name a few, it may be past time for your company to...
3 Ways To Keep Your Workplace Safe
Knowing the background of your applicant can be your greatest indicator of their ability to do their job. Unfortunately, criminals aren’t going to just give you their records or tell you where they committed their crimes. In fact, there are a few tricks that criminals...
Applicant Tracking and 7 Time-Saving Processes
We all live and work in a fast-paced world. As time passes, the expectations to accomplish more and more in the same amount of time grows. Time-management only goes so far, and when you’re in a position that is under a lot of scrutiny you often look externally for...
Back to the Basics: Public Access Terminals and Criminal Researchers
Editor’s Note: We’re excited to announce our new “Back to the Basics” series, wherein we’ll take an in-depth look at some of the ins and outs of the background check industry. We’re starting off this week with a behind the scenes view of criminal research featuring...
In The World Of Background Checks, Enough Is Never Enough
by Wayne J. Jung When I started in the background check business, one of the first things I learned was that no “silver bullet” reporting solution exists. Which I understood to mean, despite the use of an overused analogy, that there wasn’t one single report that...
Fingerprints Can’t Be Faked, But The Records Are Not Always As Thorough As You Might Need Them To Be
According to The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), which is maintained by the FBI, there are currently 78-million subjects in its criminal master fingerprint file. When you take into consideration that slightly more than one in three...
What is the CFPB and why does it matter to the background check industry?
by Thomas Wright, Satisfaction Executive SELECTiON.COM® The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been in the news a lot recently with its first and only director, former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, stepping down the day after Thanksgiving and...
Continued Breaches of Large Companies Leaves Many Asking “How Secure Are We?”
by Brian Huseman, Satisfaction Executive SELECTiON.COM® How does your hiring process account for data security? With the recent surge in security breaches at companies like Equifax, Yahoo, Verizon and Uber, just to name a few, it may be past time for your company to...
3 Ways To Keep Your Workplace Safe
Knowing the background of your applicant can be your greatest indicator of their ability to do their job. Unfortunately, criminals aren’t going to just give you their records or tell you where they committed their crimes. In fact, there are a few tricks that criminals...
Applicant Tracking and 7 Time-Saving Processes
We all live and work in a fast-paced world. As time passes, the expectations to accomplish more and more in the same amount of time grows. Time-management only goes so far, and when you’re in a position that is under a lot of scrutiny you often look externally for...