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6 Top Trends in Employment and Identity Screening

Sterling Check

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 HR’s Digital Transformation Will Elevate the Candidate, Employee Experience in 2020

Sterling Check

The importance of creating a positive candidate experience will grow in 2020, reflecting the ongoing job seekers’ market in light of currently low unemployment rates. In 2020, these should constitute table stakes that employers must expect from good background screening service providers in 2020.

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

Sterling Check

Sterling saw the technology shifts as opportunities to re-imagine and enhance candidate screening within the hiring workflow. In 2020, technology enablement became an even bigger priority out of necessity. Screening that supports safe hiring. Changing Standards for Background Checks.

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

Sterling Check

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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From Pre-employment Screening to Post-employment Interviews: Strategies for Making Mental Health & Wellness a Priority Throughout the Employee Lifecycle

Sterling Check

2020 was an exceptionally challenging year on the mental health front. Research by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found that the number of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression rose from 10% in 2019 to 40% in 2020. De-stressing the job search with efficient recruiting and screening processes.

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Healthcare and Hiring: A Brief Outlook

Peopletrail

While background screening can undoubtedly play a significant role in identifying a dependable candidate, many healthcare organizations will be hiring a high volume of new nurses, physicians, and other staff as they become available. This is where employment screening can provide a lift. However, turnover may be.

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Introducing anonymized screening: Encourage inclusivity

Workable

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has been top priority for our Product team this year. Early in 2020 we began developing a set of features aimed more directly at mitigating bias and creating a more equitable hiring process. Our latest DEI feature, anonymized screening , focuses on the initial screening stages of the hiring process.

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