One bad employee can significantly damage your small business. Fortunately, new technology makes it both easy and cost-effective for smaller companies to verify an applicant's credentials and ...

More and more businesses are using background checks during the hiring process to help ensure they aren’t bringing someone into the workplace that may be dangerous or dishonest. Recent research from ...

When it comes to being a cross-border employer, there are plenty of Canadian and United States laws to consider, and some of those laws regards how to conduct proper applicant/employee background ...

Once again, I’ve learned of two more school districts that have serious flaws when it comes to screening their employees. Union County Public Schools and Cabarrus County Schools – both in North ...

You’ve culled through your candidates to fill an opening in your business and finally landed on someone who seems like a perfect fit. No matter how much you like your choice, though, you know better ...

Q. Alice, a vice president, wants to use an outside credit agency to help with background checks for applicants as the checking of references has become too time-consuming for the company. Before ...

For security directors and company executives, protecting a company’s people and assets encompasses the implementation of a wide variety of different solutions. For some this might be the addition ...

Policy: Bowdoin College strives to ensure a safe learning, working, and living environment for its staff, faculty, and students. In support of these efforts, Bowdoin requires background checks to be ...

This guide was reviewed by a Business News Daily editor to ensure it provides comprehensive and accurate information to aid your buying decision. When hiring for your business, some job candidates may ...

Newly revealed information about how hackers broke into a company conducting millions of background investigations on national security employees shows the lengths to which attackers are willing to go ...

The City Council will probe the city’s background check process — after it emerged that a top aide to Mayor de Blasio was hired despite being fired from a previous job for sexual harassment.