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Fair Chance Hiring and Criminal Background Checks

Sterling Check

Corporate America, and indeed companies around the globe, are increasingly evaluating their hiring practices and overall diversity and inclusion policies to ensure they are playing a positive role in addressing and eliminating systemic racism. What Exactly are Fair Chance Laws?

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Fair Chance Hiring Practices

Sterling Check

Today’s job market and social climate demands that HR professionals consider overall diversity and inclusion policies to ensure they are playing a positive role in addressing and eliminating systemic racism. Ban the Box” or “Fair Chance” laws are designed to remove barriers in hiring for individuals with criminal records. “Ban

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New Jersey’s Opportunity to Compete Act

ExactHire

Over the past few months, the ExactHire team has shared information with you through our blogs on the “Ban the Box” movement and the legislative changes that have been implemented. To learn specifically how New Jersey’s “The Opportunity to Compete Act” affects your organization’s hiring practices, please contact your company’s legal team.

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Cybersecurity Talent Shortage: Why HR Needs to Map Unconventional Career Paths

Visier

According to a 2018 report released by ISACA (a non-profit professional association focused on information security), 50% of cybersecurity professionals say their enterprise is experiencing an increase in security attacks compared to a year ago. million by 2022 , a 20% increase over the forecast the firm made in 2015.

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New Jersey Amends Ban the Box Law to Include Expunged Criminal History

Sterling Check

The New Year brought many changes to laws that have an impact on the background screening industry from the legalization of recreational marijuana use in California to the enactment of ban the box laws in cities and states across the country. What are Ban the Box Laws? Current New Jersey Ban the Box Law.

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What Employers Need to Know About Ban the Box Legislation

ExactHire

Whether you agree or disagree with the concept, one thing we all can agree on is that this movement requires our attention in our organization’s hiring practices. Ban the Box legislation does not force an employer to hire an individual with a criminal record. Ban the Box. prohibiting pedophiles from working with children, etc.)

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Raising the Bar

Enspira

Welcoming a diverse workforce not only means that organizations can discover and hire high-caliber recruits, but it will have a domino effect – more candidates from marginalized groups will apply as they can see they will be welcomed. Informed, we can work with you to deliver change. We build relationships. What works?