Active Screening Blog
What Your Organization Needs to Know About the National Criminal Database Search
Background checks are a critical safety and assessment tool. These screens ensure your organization makes informed decisions about the employees they hire and external vendors that may access your organization’s resources. But exactly what types of background checks...
10 Insider Tips to Hiring the Best Employees
Employee turnover costs businesses excessive time, money, and resources. If you want to continue growing a successful organization, it's important to hire the right people for the appropriate positions within your company. Here are 10 insider tips to help with hiring...
10 Background Screening Trends that Will Impact Employers in 2022
As we head into a new year, there are new hiring challenges and demands in the workforce. Going on two years in a global pandemic, onboarding faces different trends that will take place in the background screening process. Remote work has become commonplace, and...
You Should be Using an PBSA Accredited Background Screening Firm
When it comes to protecting your business, your workplace, and your employees, you want to collaborate with a screening agency who has earned accreditation by the prestigious Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) Only 117 firms across the United States...
Most Common Misconceptions in the Screening Process
Background screening employees and volunteers is the most effective tool at keeping your workplace safe, yet many companies - even billion dollar behemoths - make major mistakes when implementing background check procedures. In a perfect world this important hiring...
Can Businesses Conduct Background Checks on Independent Contractors?
Conducting background checks on full-time and part-time employees is standard hiring procedure for millions of employers, but questions still linger over whether businesses can screen independent contractors, freelancers and vendors. Let’s tackle some of the existing...
Can You Dispute a Background Check?
It’s critical that you request to view your background check results, because if the information is inaccurate, you can dispute your background check report. Mind blown?? Good. That’s what we were hoping for. We can’t tell you how many times we hear from job...
Tennessee’s Backlog of Expunged Records a Warning
Thousands of Tennesseans are finding out their expunged records were never sealed and are showing up on employment background checks. Here's what do if this happens to you. Imagine applying for a job, consenting to a background check, and then being shocked to...
Avoid FCRA Trouble with these Social Media Screening Tips
Using social media as a screening tool sometimes seems too good to be true. And, if you don’t follow the law, it can be. This law firm reports that there is “nothing inherently unlawful” about social media snooping. But if, as an employer/boss/hiring...
Volunteer Background Checks: Even Political Campaigns Do Them
The importance of volunteer background checks for people who work with children or who have access to Personally Identifying Information (PII) or money can’t be overstated. Background checks are proven to be the number one tool at preventing crime or workplace...