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Parents of young children face numerous and important decisions.
Whether it’s health, schedule, nutrition, education and more, questions abound.
One of the biggest decisions comes when deciding what to do with a pre-K child should both parents need to work.
And that brings us to daycares.
By design, daycares are supposed to be fun, providing a child with the proper environment for nurturing, physical growth and learning.
They are also supposed to be safe! 
But with criminal activity seemingly on the rise throughout this country, increased fraudulent applicant reporting and the lack of adequate screening and verification prior to hiring, that’s not always the case.
As a leading provider of background checks for schools, daycares and churches, SELECTiON.COM® is committed to child safety. In fact, we like to say that we have been providing safe environments for all our clients since 1991.
In partnership with Catholic Dioceses throughout the United States, as well as through our participation in national Child and Youth Protection Leadership Conferences, we have developed a specific proficiency for keeping children safe.
Our base recommendation starts with a SSN Trace to determine residency history, and then county criminal searches based on that history. Finally, a thorough search of a proper nationwide criminal database is an absolute necessity.
At SELECTiON.COM® we developed Search America®, the largest criminal database in the United States with more than 1500 sources, including state-by-state sex offender registries, government watch lists, local, state and federal criminal records.
Search America® puts the comprehensive in criminal background reporting.
No parent can ever be with their child 24/7 through adulthood, but YOU CAN get involved by making certain your child’s school or daycare has an established and thorough applicant screening process in place.
SELECTION.COM® is here to help by providing solutions for our clients that ultimately will make the most important decisions for parents everywhere just a little easier.
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Cincinnati-based company supports Pressley Ridge through Pennies for Pressley
In partnership with Pressley Ridge, SELECTiON.COM® is helping make camp dreams come true for local children all Summer long.
Campers fishing at the 2017 Camp Pressley
A faith-based organization, SELECTiON.COM® regularly looks for opportunities to give back to our local community.
This past Christmas season SELECTiON.COM® raised money for the Pressley Ridge of Southwest Ohio. In addition to participating in their Giving Tree, SELECTiON.COM® employees collected loose change and donations for the Pennies for Pressley Drive.
Through Pennies for Pressley, SELECTiON.COM® and other companies throughout the area were able to help over 60 Pressley Ridge Youth and 13 teen leaders attend the Summer 2017 Camp Pressley.
Pressley Ridge is a national non-profit that provides educational opportunities, foster care connections, residential options, and community-based support for children and their families. Pressley Ridge hosts a yearly summer camp aimed at helping children without appropriate funds and social skills to attend traditional summer camp.
Money raised through Pennies for Pressley was used for a Kona Ice Truck
“Camp Pressley allows kids ages 6-12 to have a fun and therapeutic camp experience, while also giving at-risk teens the opportunity to be employed as counselor”
For more information about the Pressley Ridge Camp Pressley visit: http://www.pressleyridge.org/.
ABOUT PRESSLEY RIDGE
Pressley Ridge provides services in Education, Treatment Foster Care, Residential, and Community-based programs to over 5,400 children and families annually, in six states as well as internationally in Portugal and Hungary. For almost two centuries Pressley Ridge has served society by caring for its most vulnerable members with a basic philosophy that aspires “to change the world one child at a time”. www.pressleyridge.org
ABOUT SELECTiON.COM®
SELECTiON.COM® is a nationwide provider of criminal and pre-employment background screenings, also referred to as a Consumer Reporting Agency. Headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, SELECTiON.COM® is a veteran-owned company that has been in business since 1991 and offers more than 21 background and data collection services. www.selection.com
Thank You Cards from Campers
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SELECTiON.COM® is proud to be a Certified Veteran-Owned Small Business. We always look for ways to incorporate what we know into our business. Being veteran-owned is at the heart of everything we do here at SELECTiON.COM®.
Attention to Detail
SELECTiON.COM® was founded by veterans. We are proud of our military background, the service we provided to our country, and the service we give our clients. SELECTiON.COM® pays great attention to detail- just as we were trained to do in the military. Attention to detail is what makes SELECTiON.COM® efficient and effective. There is a direct correlation between our past experiences and current careers. Attention to detail makes the difference between missing some criminal records or mistaking an applicant for a criminal.
Disciplined Procedures
As SELECTiON.COM® has grown, we have created disciplined procedures allowing us to maintain accuracy without compromising speed. Our processes are thoroughly documented, and our staff is trained to execute with military precision. 
Protecting what we Value
At the heart of a soldier is protecting what is important. Our Chief Visionary Officer and Chief Executive Officer served our country in order to protect what is most cherished- our liberty. At SELECTiON.COM®, we take that same approach to helping protect what YOU value- your company, your reputation, and your clients. We do not simply do research; we look for ways to protect YOU.
SELECTiON.COM® holds our veterans and military servicemen and women in very high esteem. We are proud to support many different military related charities. SELECTiON.COM® is a sponsor of Team Fastrax™ and Team Fastrax™ Warrior Weekend to Remember. We help veterans live their lives to the fullest and thank them for their service.
Team Fastrax™ is sponsored by SELECTiON.COM®, a leading provider of criminal background checks and pre-employment screening services. They are the most ambitious professional skydiving team in the world. The team has a roster of more than twenty-nine active members, with a collective of more than 300,000 skydives. Team Fastrax has performed exhibition skydives all over the world for audiences large and small as a patriotic display or as a product promotion.
The SELECTiON.COM® Ohio Challenge Hot Air Balloon Festival and Team Fastrax™ Warrior Weekend to Remember is July 20th-23rd. 2017. The weekend includes many public events where you can honor and meet over 40 combat injured warriors and more than 8 Gold Star Families who have made the ultimate sacrifice in losing a loved one in combat service to our Nation.
For more information on veteran-owned small businesses: https://www.va.gov/osdbu/
For more information on Team Fastrax Warrior Weekend to Remember: http://warriorwtr.com/
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Most HR Professionals have experienced losing an “A” candidate due to delays in the hiring process.
A recent study published by Management Recruiters International (MRI) showed that “47% of declined offers in 2015 were due to candidates accepting other jobs” between application and offer. A statistic that was “up 10% from the first half of the year.”
As is most often the case, an applicant with one company is usually also actively seeking employment with other companies concurrently.
For that reason alone, timeliness is a big part of the hiring process.
Establishing a process that gathers the required information and insights on potential applicants is key to success in Human Resources, as it can drastically reduce the amount of time between application, mutual interest, offer and acceptance.
Here are a few suggestions in review of your process:
1. Job Posting – Promote the benefits of the position and organization. Clearly define requirements and job duties.With well-developed job postings, you can decrease the time spent with unqualified candidates.
Additionally, track which postings give you the best results and replicate those for future openings. 
2. Application – An application that gathers key information and eliminates extraneous details can save time and improve the number of qualified applicants you receive.
Is it necessary to gather a lifetime of work experience or are you more interested in experience related to the position? Perhaps a full work history can be gathered a later time.
DO have all applicants complete a release form for a background check along with the application. You don’t have to run a background check on every release form received, but you also don’t want to have to wait for release once you find that highly-qualified candidate
3. Interview/Assessment – If your application gathers the right information and you identify a qualified applicant, you want to move quickly to schedule interviews or get assessments.
We know there are marginal candidates that you can wait to hear from but the “A” candidates are looking for a positive response. Get to know them with follow-up questions, assessments or interviews right away.
4. Background Check/Offer – Most successful companies make a job offer contingent on background check results or they run a background check prior to making an offer. Background checks are very important to your hiring strategy and the expediency of the process can dramatically shorten or lengthen the hiring window.SELECTiON.COM® will help sharpen your hiring strategy by providing quicker turn-around times on all your background check needs.
Developing, and consistently reviewing, a successful hiring process will help your company land more of the best candidates…BEFORE they accept an offer from your competition!
Contact SELECTiON.COM® to review your hiring process and explore the value that we can offer your organization.
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As part of your hiring process, do you currently run ONLY a national criminal database search on your applicants?
If so, you’re making a mistake.
A criminal database search, while certainly very helpful, should only be used as a supplement to further research, which typically includes county criminal, federal, state, etc.
The most common misconception surrounding national database searches is that the results are from all 50 states and the territories, thus comprising every possible criminal record in the nation on that applicant.
This is simply not true.
All such databases are just compiled records from specific sources that allow their data to be accessed and aggregated.
In large part that is because many repositories haven’t made the transition to digital technologies and still use paper filing systems, or even microfiche.
For that reason alone, no aggregated national criminal database can draw from every source in the United States.
The best criminal background check to use starts with a Social Security Number Trace to establish a residency history and from there a county criminal history report is compiled from data acquired directly from the county, or counties, of record. 
All jurisdiction starts at the county level. This means it provides the most up to date and accurate information possible.
Our researchers are sent to county courthouses in every county in the United States to pull actual files and records relating to the applicant. It is the basis for building a solid criminal history.
From there, a national criminal database search is the perfect complement, providing a “snapshot” and helping to fill in the gaps on a national scale.
Results returned may even show the need to add a county criminal search based upon a returned record from a part of the country that did not show in their permanent residency history to begin with.
We certainly are not advocating against the use of a national criminal database, but rather we caution against relying on one as a standalone “silver bullet” solution.
At SELECTiON.COM®, we are continuously adding sources, which currently number more than 1800, to our national Search America® criminal database.
Additionally, we work with our clients to seek out a specific database that may help in their screening process and, where accessible, we will add that into their customized report.
SELECTiON.COM® has more than 25 pre-employment and background check reports on our à la carte menu, from which we can build a combined report that’s just right for your hiring needs!
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Many companies throughout the U.S. not only run background checks on their applicants, but they also perform a drug screening.
There are many different types of drug panels that companies can run on potential employees, with a 10-panel urinalysis being the most common. This type of drug panel searches the top five street drugs (cocaine, heroin, meth, weed, PCP) and the top five prescription drugs (benzodiazepines, Quaaludes, methadone, propoxyphene, barbiturates). Other drugs may be added to or subtracted from this panel as specific requirements warrant.
Drug tests may be conducted using any number of sources including hair, saliva or urine.
Since medical marijuana is such a hot topic, questions often arise from our clients whether a positive marijuana drug test can be overturned. Also, with guidelines and regulations varying by state some confusion exists as to how marijuana results are to be interpreted in the first place.
Marijuana is classified currently as a Schedule I drug on a federal level, therefore a prescription cannot be written for it.
Clients also ask how Medical Review Officers (MRO) handle a drug test that is positive for marijuana.
When reviewing drug tests for marijuana, Medical Review Officers, will not overturn a positive result. If the donor claims to have a Medical Marijuana Card, they can contact the MRO and ask them to put this message on their report, but the report will still show “Positive for Marijuana.”
Some company policies allow the use of recreational or medical marijuana. In this case, the MRO will ask the donor to refer back to their company to discuss their specific policies.
Even if a city or state allows usage under local law, the MRO will not overturn the findings.
If, and only if, the donor does state that they would like this claim documented on their results, it would read as such:
“At the donor’s request, we are advising you that the donor claimed to have a
Medical Marijuana Card or Recommendation during their interview. We do not
consider Medical Marijuana in determining final results and no verification of the
donor’s claim was made.”
Please note, this does not apply to any federally regulated testing.
Most companies put a drug testing policy in place, which states whether or not they will allow medical marijuana claims. It is up to your company on how to proceed.
SELECTiON.COM® will work with your company to help you navigate applicant drug testing and the results.
Source:
D.R.S Medical Review Service, Statement of Procedures Regarding Donor Claims of Allowed
Recreational and/or Medical Marijuana Usage, 2017
