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TOP PRE-EMPLOYMENT SCREENING PROVIDERS
Seamless Background
Screening
Streamlining the verification process is vital to improving the candidate
experience for today's remote, hybrid, and global workforce.
By Debbie Bolla
Today's hybrid workforce makes background screening
more complicated-and more critical-than ever before.
Organizations must leverage a unified approach across
geographies that delivers consistent and accurate results
to improve their hiring process. In fact, HireRight's 2023
Global Benchmark Report finds the top advantage of
background screening for organizations is better quality
of hires with 66% of respondents in agreement.
" Ever since The Great Resignation, COVID-19, and the
increase of a more nomadic workforce, there has been
a demand of hiring candidates faster, " explains Alan
Lasky, PsyD., senior vice president of sales for Universal
Background Screening. HireRight's report shows that
speed is a crucial factor for organizations when selecting
their program with 68% of respondents in agreement.
How are these trends impacting background screening
today?
TREND #1: Today's dispersed-remote, hybrid, and
global-workforce adds complexity to a company's
background screening process.
TA leaders agree that hiring remote and hybrid workers
has many benefits including expanding talent pipelines.
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But as those candidate pools widen, location becomes a
main consideration in the screening process.
" More organizations are hiring remotely and the need
to understand municipal/state consumer reporting laws
where the candidate resides at the time of hire is crucial
to ensure proper hiring procedures are being followed, "
says Lasky.
The trend of working from anywhere continues to be a
talent attractor, but organizations must remain compliant
as employee locations vary and change. " Employers need
to understand that the laws may be different for remote
employees that are no longer working in their physical
locations, " says Dawn Standerwick, vice president of
global sales for ClearStar. " There are local and state
jurisdictions that prescribe specific notice, disclosure,
consent, and adverse action requirements that may differ
from where their employees previously worked versus
their U.S. or even global locations. "
Take, for example, drug testing and substance abuse
testing programs. Standerwick says there's legislation that
prohibits the testing for marijuana (or using the results in
the hiring decision) and it varies by location.
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