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Post-Hire Screening: Background Checks Should Not Be a ‘One & Done’ Process

Goodhire

You know the value of conducting pre-employment background checks both to help you make well-informed hiring decisions and to ensure you’re being compliant with various federal, state and local laws and regulations. Your background checking practices shouldn’t stop at the point of a job offer.

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Helping Managers Understand and Address Stress

DecisionWise

Our research has found that an individual’s level of stress in their job is one of the top five most frequently reported areas that needs attention from executive teams. Our firm, DecisionWise , has amassed more than 50 million employee survey responses from more than 70 countries throughout the world. well-researched?article

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Hiring biases and how to minimize them with background checks

Peopletrail

The United States of America strongly frowns upon all forms of discrimination, especially in the workplace. In fact, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was introduced in 1970 , for this specific purpose, to protect the rights of working professionals. You see, discrimination is often sub-conscious and many times unintentional.

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

Goodhire

Omitting arrest records that did not result in convictions from criminal background check results benefits both employers and job candidates. But not all consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) follow this approach. Background screening practices that violate Title VII discrimination laws can lead to class-action lawsuits. .

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Fair Chance Hiring and Criminal Background Checks

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 diversity.

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4 Ways to Reduce Hiring Bias and Create a More Diverse Workforce

Cisive

According to research by Glassdoor, 67 percent of job seekers said that a diverse workforce is an important factor to them when considering companies and job offers. Glassdoor’s research found that the majority of employees were unaware of any current diversity programs at their workplace.

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Does Using AI and Algorithms to Screen Employees Put Your Company at Legal Risk?

Cisive

Many of these technologies promise to help organizations improve their ability to find the right person for the right job, and screen out the wrong people for the wrong jobs, faster and cheaper than ever before. To reduce such biases, developers are working to balance the data used for training AI models to appropriately represent all groups.