Sentences with phrase «background check firms»

A recent featured article on Workforce.com — «Background Screening Firms Face Increased Scrutiny» — tells how background check firms are being watched more closely in the wake of a $ 2.6 million civil penalty against a leading screening firm by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

Employers need to kick the tires and make sure to ask enough questions about background check firms they may want to use for employment screening.

One way to help an employer choose from the wide number of available screening vendors is to look for background check firms that are accredited.

NOTE: The Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR) News Blog has a policy not to identify background check firms involved in litigation by name where no facts have been determined or no settlement entered into.

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR)-- a global background check firms — offers a complimentary whitepaper entitled «21 Shortcuts and Traps that Can Lead to Inaccurate Criminal Records.»

The NAPBS accreditation program for U.S. consumer reporting agencies (CRAs)-- the technical term for background check firms — is called the Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program (BSAAP) and covers six critical areas of screening: Consumer Protection, Legal Compliance, Client Education, Researcher and Data Product Standards, Verification Service Standards, and General Business Practices.

With background check firms facing greater scrutiny for the accuracy of their reports, employers should be more diligent in hiring screening firms and should «screen the screeners.»

Effective July 1, 2014, an amended Indiana Code § 24 -4-18-6 changes what criminal history information background check firms may report to employers.

In the Workforce article, Rosen says employers need «to kick the tires and make sure they ask enough questions» about the background check firms they may want to use for employment screening.

To alert U.S. - based employers and job seekers about the potential dangers caused by background check firms «offshoring» PII to foreign countries, Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR) is offering a complimentary whitepaper on the subject titled «The Dangers of Offshoring Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Outside of United States» that details the hazards of sending PII to counties well beyond the reach of U.S. privacy and identity theft laws.

(Case in point: NBC's recent Rossen Reports «exposé» on background check firms.)

• Checkr, a San Francisco - based background check firm, raised $ 100 million in Series C funding.

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR) is a global background check firm that is a strategic choice for employers who need accuracy and compliance in their background screening programs.

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn To help employers understand the guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of global background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a webinar entitled «Legally Obtaining and Using Criminal Records, and the Impact of the EEOC and...

Rosen, an attorney and CEO of Employment Screening Resources, a global background check firm based in Novato, Calif., said that an employer has a vested interest in finding out how successful the applicant was in previous jobs.

How is Your Background Check Firm Measuring Up?

Powered by Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading U.S. background check firm accredited by The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS ®), ESR Global Screening assists employers in conducting due diligence background checks on job applicants who have lived, worked, or studied in foreign countries.

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR) is a global background check firm that is accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS ®) through its Background Screening Agency Accreditation Program (BSAAP).

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR)-- a leading global background check firm located in California — offers information about background checks in California to help employers comply with various laws that include «Ban the Box,» offshsoring, and credit reports.

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR) is a global background check firm that is a strategic choice for employers concerned about accuracy and compliance in their screening programs.

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR)-- a global background check firm — offers two complimentary whitepapers that deal with the explosion of class action lawsuits against both employers and Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs) involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)-- the world's largest HR professional society — will hold the SHRM 2018 Talent Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 16 to 18, 2018, that will feature speakers such as background screening expert Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR).

Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- a leading global background check firm — has created an interactive Ban the Box Map to help employers better understand the current patchwork of Ban the Box laws in states, counties, and cities in America.

Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- a leading global background check firm — supports sensible Ban the Box laws.

Rosen founded Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), a global background check firm accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), in 1997 in the San Francisco, California - area.

Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of San Francisco - area background check firm Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), will present a session titled «The Top Trends for Background Checks in 2013 — What Every Employer Needs to Know» at the San Francisco HR Star Conference on Wednesday, July 17, 2013.

According to Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), «diploma mills» create a danger to employers since educational achievement can tell an employer a great deal about a job applicant's ability, qualifications, and motivation.

NOVATO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, September 21, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), a leading global background check firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, has announced that Kirk Bogue has joined the company as Vice President of Operations with overall responsibility for ESR's operations and client services.

Attorney and safe hiring expert Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of accredited U.S. background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will speak on «The Challenges of Safe and Smart Hiring» at the Employee & Background Screening Seminar in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on February 2, 2012 from 3:30 PM to 7:00 PM Local Time.

Attorney Lester Rosen, the founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), will present a workshop with TrainHR entitled «Legal and Effective Reference Checking and Education Verification» on Monday, April 4, 2016, starting at 10:00 AM PDT / 01:00 PM EDT.

Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR) and author of «The Safe Hiring Manual,» recently presented a best hiring practices webinar titled «Eight Shocking Facts about Hiring and Employment Screening,» for leading Payroll and HR solutions provider Paycor that revealed surprising information.

«The privacy concerns are ill founded,» stated Lester Rosen, the founder and CEO of San Francisco - area based background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), in response to the article.

Attorney and safe hiring expert Les Rosen, founder and CEO of nationwide background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a seminar titled «Conducting Background Checks Thoroughly and Legally» for the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA) on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM Pacific Time at the NCHRA Training Center at...

The new CFPB notices were first reported in the ESR News blog «Background Screening Firms must Modify Forms Mandated by Fair Credit Reporting Act by January 1 2013» posted August 9, 2012 by Attorney Les Rosen, Founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR).

Written By Thomas Ahearn Attorney and safe hiring expert Lester S. Rosen, Founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), will address the 2014 National Safe Environment Coordinators Victim Assistance Coordinators (NSECVAC) Conference for the Catholic Church in Nashville, Tennessee which takes place from Sunday, May 4, 2014 to Wednesday, May 7,...

Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- a nationwide background check firm accredited by The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS ®)-- does not rely upon home based operators to perform employment and education verifications.

Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a webinar entitled Background Checks: Best Practices, Trends, and Legal Compliance on March 21, 2018, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET.

Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a background check firm accredited by The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS ®), provides background screening solutions for volunteers and youth organizations of all types and sizes by checking available resources such as sex offender registries and county courts for criminal records.

Employment Screening Resources, Â Â a leading international employment screening background checking firm headquartered in the San Francisco area, announced that its president, Lester Rosen, will be presenting a national webinar on November 18, 2009, on â $ œNew Legal Hotspots and Latest Trends in Employment Screening Background Checks.â $ The webinar is sponsored by IOMA, an independent source of exclusive...

Attorney at Law Lester S. Rosen is Founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), a global background check firm located in the San Francisco, California area and accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS ®).

Employment Screening Resources, Â Â a leading international employment screening background checking firm headquartered in the San Francisco area, announced that its president, Lester Rosen, will be presenting before the combined KennedyInfo / Onrec 2009 Recruiting Conference and Expo in Chicago, Illinois on November 3, 2009.

ESR was the third U.S. background check firm to be «Safe Harbor» Certified for data privacy protection.

Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR)-- a global background check firm — is also a Designated E-Verify Employer Agent that helps employers with Form I - 9 and E-Verify compliance.

Employment Screening Resources — a nationwide background check firm accredited by The National Association of Professional background Screeners (NAPBS)-- takes the position that databases should only be used for secondary research and not as the primary source of information since inexpensive and instant database searches with unreliable results could may miss criminal records and give both employers and consumers a false sense of security.

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR)-- a global background check firm headquartered in the San Francisco, CA - area — has created an infographic to help employers comply with the «California Fair Employment & Housing Council's (FEHC) Consideration of Criminal History in Employment Decisions Regulations» that take effect on July 1,...

One background screening expert interviewed, Attorney Lester Rosen, the founder and CEO of global background check firm Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), said that background screening providers need to monitor any legislation dealing with background checks for employment purposes since they «must comply not only with federal law but also with differing state and local legislation.»

Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of global background check firm Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), will present a session entitled «Legal and Effective Reference Checking, Credential, and Education Verification» on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, from 9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. CST at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2017 Talent Management Conference & Exposition taking place in Chicago, Illinois.

Employers should approach so - called «social media background checks» that search the Internet for the online activities of job applicants with extreme caution, according to Attorney Les Rosen, founder and CEO of San Francisco - area background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR).

Background Check Firm Employment Screening Resources Achieves Renewal of HR Certification Institute Approved Provider Status

«This conviction for fake background checks is another reason employers interested in screening services should look for the NAPBS Accreditation seal,» says Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a background check firm located in the San Francisco, CA - area that is accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS).