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4 Ways to Maximize Productivity and Optimize Your Contingent Workforce Background Check Program

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If your process is due for a tune up, implementing these four best practices for screening contingent workers can help. This is further supported by 2020 research which found that, “Almost one in five organizations have experienced instances of employee or candidate identity fraud.” Maintain consistent screening practices.

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6 Top Trends in Employment and Identity Screening

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Amid the uncertainty and disruption of 2020 and 2021, Sterling provided background screening and identity verification, as well as Covid testing and a host of other services, to thousands of organizations, staffing firms, and professionals across the globe, helping them hire safely, quickly, and with attention to compliance.

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How Your Background Screening Provider’s Global Partner Ecosystem Enhances the Hiring Workflow

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Changing Standards for Background Checks. Sterling saw the technology shifts as opportunities to re-imagine and enhance candidate screening within the hiring workflow. Harris notes, “Ten years ago integrations were simply about reducing the data entry it took to request the background check.”

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Background Checks and your Extended Workforce: 6 Tips for Hiring During the Coronavirus Outbreak

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If you fall into this category, maintaining proper background checks is essential, especially considering the sensitive nature of employee-to-customer interactions. Understand what type of workers are needed : Businesses seeing increased demand for products or services during the coronavirus outbreak need to prioritize hiring.

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Key Privacy Considerations for Global Background Checks

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8 minutes Top Takeaways: Privacy is a key concern when conducting background checks, especially for remote and global workforces. Background check policies should be designed with privacy principles and legal requirements in mind. Whom will you screen, and what types of information will you collect for that screening?

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5 Signs It’s Time to Change Your Background Check Provider

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Conducting employee background checks is an essential element of the hiring process. So essential, in fact, that 93% of all organizations globally conduct some form of background check when hiring, according to the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA).

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5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Background Check Turnaround Time

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5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Background Check Turnaround Time Nov. While most healthcare employers conduct background checks on new hires, it can also be a component that can increase the time to fill for talent acquisition. Here are five ways you can reduce the turnaround times of background checks.