Some say background screening can only serve to benefit tourists and offer a measure of protection. Tour guides in New Orleans say that performing criminal background checks on them is unconstitutional and violates their First Amendment Rights. Similar licensing arguments have been challenged in Philadelphia and Washington as well, stating that tour guides provide expressive activity similar to a parade. The city created these regulations on licensing to include that tour guides pass a history exam, drug test and criminal background check to protect tourists and the city. To learn more about tour guides and background screening and the debate over the regulations required for licensing and why using a third party background screening company helps read recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-10-11-Tour-Guides-and-Background-Screening.html
My Criminal Background Check
My criminal background check is the primary search phrase used by Americans looking for background check companies online when seeking a self background check. A personal background check like “my criminal background check” is being used more and more for American job seekers. A self background check is in many times used as a sort of pre-interview background check to verify what if anything is on their criminal record. Even if a person knows they have no criminal history as they never went to court for any reason it is still wise to perform a self criminal background check to ensure that there are no mistakes or errors on ones criminal history. Just like with credit history there can be similar name matches or data entry errors that align a criminal record to the incorrect person thus creating a false criminal report that could be picked up by a potential employer possibly causing a person to get rejected for employment due to a mismatched criminal record. To learn more about My Criminal Background Check visit the My Criminal Background Check webpage found at:
http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/my-criminal-background-check.html
EEOC Focuses on Employment Discrimination
In April the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) released new enforcement guidance pertaining to the use of criminal history searches primarily in the employment screening process in a way that is not discriminatory. The use of criminal background checks in the USA in the employment screening industry has been growing tremendously as criminal background checks become easier to run, cheaper to buy, faster to get search results with and the information on criminal reports themselves becoming more accurate and current even if accessed electronically through high speed Internet gateways and data-integrity repositories.
Follow this link to read more on this subject: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-06-11-EEOC-and-Use-of-Criminal-History-Searches.html
Criminal Background Checks
There are many types of criminal background checks available in the criminal background check retrieval industry today. If you are looking to comb the entire United States for possible criminal records you need to perform a national criminal background check. If you know the US State the person being investigated has lived in than running a statewide criminal background check may be your best option as it is less expensive than a national background check and should come up the criminal records you are looking for. If you know the specific city or county an applicant or potential employee has a criminal record in than you should perform a county criminal background check in that county to get all the details of the criminal record or records on file. CriminalBackgroundRecords.com offers every kind of criminal background check including county searches, statewide searches and national criminal searches.
Cut Down Data Entry in Your Employment Screening Process
With cutbacks and tightened budgets Human Resource professionals are looking to do more with less. One way they can achieve this goal is by cutting down on the data entry required in most background screening processes for their employment and pre employment screening. CriminalBackgroundRecords.com has figured this new trend out and delivers an online background checking system to employers that requires very little data entry but produces all the necessary background reports employers are looking for.
Ordering criminal background checks, driving records, professional verifications including previous employment verifications need not be ordered separately anymore. The site allows for multiple independent background searches to be placed within the same order. This simple and very quick solution for human resources makes their role in the employment screening process much less demanding. Leaving the background check website the responsibility to do all the hard work in fulfilling the background checks requested. This is a safe and effective means to offload some of the burden HR professionals suffer without compromising quality and the effectiveness of your overall employment screening program.
For more information on how you can benefit from using this online background check website and why it is a good idea to minimize HR employment screening processing time without compromising quality read recent press release found at: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2011-12-12-Data-Entry-Made-Simple-for-Background-Screening-Reports.html
Be Aware of What is on Your Criminal Record
Criminal records are public records and as such can contain errors and/or omissions. Name mix-ups can occur within databases or entered incorrectly or misspelled and the transposition of data can occur.
If you are applying for a new job and they perform a criminal background check on you, you are entitled via the FCRA to be able to view that criminal report if it is part of the reason you didn’t get hired. This is an important step to take to ensure the reasons you didn’t get hired were not because of an inaccurate criminal record that accidently presented you as someone else who shares certain characteristics as you such as name and date of birth. The best way to avoid this entire scenario is to perform a background check on yourself to see what if anything is on your criminal record. Doing a self background check before others perform a background check on you can give you extra confidence in what may turn up along with making you aware of what is out there on you and most importantly give you the opportunity to correct any errors on your criminal report before you apply for that new job.
For more information on pre-interview background checks and why it is a good idea to do a self background check before you get background checked read recent press release found at: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2011-11-08-Pre-Interview-Background-Checks.html
Tenant Checks Should Search For Sex Offenders
With home values on the decline Americans are looking more towards renting than buying. This surge in rental applications should increase landlords tenant screening quality and not diminish it. The lure for quick and easy new tenants can be strong, but in these times its best to vet all applicants using a sound and comprehensive background screening program. Such a tenant screening program should include the basics of a credit check and criminal background check. However, not all background check providers include a national sex offender check with their background search. Protecting your property, tenants and investment must include a thorough sex offender check on potential new tenants to protect current residents and to protect the reputation of your apartment community. TenantScreeningUSA.com always includes a national sex offender check with every tenant check performed through them. For more information on thorough tenant checks and national sex offender checks read recent press release found at: http://tenantscreeningusa.com/tenant-screening-news/tenant-screening-and-national-sex-offender-search-a-must/
Take the Time to Check for Crime
As the baby boomers get older and life expectancy of Americans gets higher the need for elderly care grows dramatically. The problem is that most of this industry is unregulated and rarely is background screening done prior to hiring. This is the opposite of what you would think as letting someone into your house to care for a family member creates a much larger potential risk than a company hiring a new person to work in a company office.
Home caregivers have unmonitored access to everything in your house and more importantly to your loved ones that need help and assistance to complete simple but necessary tasks. Right now in America you can protect those you care about by running a background check on their caregivers. A thorough background check can be performed online in minutes for a cost of $60 or less. Bypassing this part of due diligence doesn’t make sense and won’t protect those you care about from harm and abuse. Run a background check and take the time to check for crime, you will be glad you did.
Tis the Season for Background Screening – Holiday Hires
With millions of part time workers getting hired for the holiday season rush, new press release on Holiday Hires does a fine job breaking down why running a criminal background check on seasonal hires is a must in this transient society.
With instant criminal background checks now available to employers hiring part time help it is becoming unjustifiable not to do a background check on your seasonal staff. Criminal backgrounds performed online almost always include a free national sex offender search, and other tools to catch fraud like the social security number validation are also available to further mitigate risk.