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Fair Chance Hiring and Criminal Background Checks

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As companies begin to scrutinize their hiring processes to eliminate bias and increase equity, the question of criminal background checks is often part of the conversation. Understanding these laws can help organizations to continue to conduct criminal background screening and still achieve goals of increased diversity.

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Supporting Fair Hiring: Why GoodHire Excludes Non-Convictions From Background Check Results

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Omitting arrest records that did not result in convictions from criminal background check results benefits both employers and job candidates. In 2015 we began excluding non-convictions based on guidance that the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) issued for employers. Learn more about state background check laws.)

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Building Your Dream Team Starts by Knowing Your Candidates

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Q&A with Ben Mones, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Fama.io , the world’s largest social media screening company and leader in the application of artificial intelligence technology in background screening services. How has the pandemic impacted how employers perceive or use social media screening?

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Fair Chance Hiring Practices

Sterling Check

As companies begin to scrutinize their hiring processes to eliminate bias and increase equity, the question of criminal background checks is often part of the conversation. Understanding these laws can help organizations to continue to conduct criminal background screening and still achieve goals of increased equity and diversity.

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Building Your Dream Team Starts By Knowing Your Candidates

Sterling Check

Q&A with Ben Mones, chief executive officer and co-founder of Fama.io , the world’s largest social media screening company and leader in the application of artificial intelligence technology in background screening services. How has the pandemic impacted how employers perceive or use social media screening?

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What is blind recruitment – and does it work?

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The idea is that removing such information makes it easier for hiring managers, recruiters and HR professionals to make objective decisions about a candidate’s skills, experience and suitability for a role, and to lessen the risk of bias (whether conscious or unconscious ) affecting the decision-making process.

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Sentiment analysis: from the consumer world to the workplace

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This may be an extreme example, but this type of sentiment analysis can be a way of understanding employees’ moods and perceptions and to pre-empt reputational crises, gauge if an initiative is not landing well, or even detect health and safety risks.