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

Sterling Check

Changing Standards for Background Checks. Sterling saw the technology shifts as opportunities to re-imagine and enhance candidate screening within the hiring workflow. Harris notes, “Ten years ago integrations were simply about reducing the data entry it took to request the background check.”

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Navigating Background and Covid-19 Health Screening in Retail

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Consumer behavior has shown they want choices on how they can shop and obtain their products. Digitalization also has redefined how retailers market, sell and distribute products. Recruiting a new type of tech-savvy employee affects the background checks retailers conduct on job candidates. Covid-19 Health Screening.

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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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Discover 4 Use Cases for Applying AI to Your Recruiting Processes

This technology automates recruiting routines and facilitates natural conversations, resulting in higher productivity and a better candidate experience. Recruitment AI technology uncovers the most qualified candidates. Download the eBook to learn more!

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5 Signs It’s Time to Change Your Background Check Provider

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Conducting employee background checks is an essential element of the hiring process. So essential, in fact, that 93% of all organizations globally conduct some form of background check when hiring, according to the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA). Clunky workarounds just don’t cut it.

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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

Have you noticed a rise in public service announcements related to mental health and wellness recently? 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. ” The topic feels even more relevant today.