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How to Review Your Background Check Provider

InfoMart

BLOG How to Review Your Background Check Provider Tammy Cohen , PHR, SHRM-CP February 9 2024 Pre-employment screening is probably a standard part of your business’s hiring process, but is it feeling a little outdated? If your background checks are the same as they were five years ago, it may be time for a change.

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Why pre-employment background checks are important

Insperity

The very first step you can take to strengthen and preserve that trust are thorough, professional pre-employment background checks for job applicants. Why pre-employment background checks are important. The purpose of a background check isn’t to try to catch an applicant in a lie. Finding the right fit.

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How to create a continuous learning culture in your workplace

Insperity

Part of having a great overall workplace culture is instituting a continuous learning culture. After all, learning isn’t a one-time event. You don’t earn a degree or a certification, or complete a course, and then you magically know everything and you’re done learning forever. The risk of not continually learning.

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Employee learning curve: Ways to get employees up to speed fast

Insperity

Probationary periods and employee learning curves don’t always match. Other times, the learning curve is seemingly paved with mud. What can you do to ensure your employee learning curves are free from roadblocks? To clear the way for employee success is to start the learning process early from your side of the road.

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The high cost of a bad hire – and how to avoid it

Insperity

Consider these results of a 2017 CareerBuilder survey : The average cost of one bad hire is nearly $15,000, factoring in the recruiting, interviewing and selection process; training; and salary. Lost time spent on recruiting and training. Bad hires are an incredibly common problem in the business world. Lost productivity.

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How to properly conduct reference checks when hiring

Insperity

Now it’s time to check references. A reference check is a powerful tool to better understand the candidate and make the best hiring decision. This blog covers: The difference between a reference check and a background check Reference check best practices How to craft reference check questions 4 risks and how to avoid them.

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Who Owns Your Social Brand – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Back in 1997, Tom Peters wrote an article for Fast Company magazine titled “ The Brand Called You ”. A while ago, I was doing some training at a company where they had hired someone with 750,000 Twitter followers. Heather] Your personal brand is generally your presence online and in the world.