Articles Tagged with ''background check''

Although current employees present significant ongoing organizational risk due to their access to company assets, customers and other employees, a survey found that 48% of employers do not rescreen their personnel post-hire.

A new CareerBuilder survey outlines myths around background checks, noting that not all companies or workers know the process.

House lawmakers in Idaho rejected legislation allowing FBI background checks on some state employees.

According to a CareerBuilder survey, 75 percent of employers said they have hired the wrong person for a position, and of those who had a bad hire affect their business in the last year, one bad hire costs them nearly $17,000 on average.

Charles Phalen will head the Office of Personnel Management's National Background Investigations Bureau. 

The practice of conducting employment background screening has been around a long time and has become ubiquitous that it is inexplicably tied to the employment hiring process.

Fifty-two percent of employers have updated or implemented a “zero tolerance” workplace violence prevention policy in response to mass shootings at U.S. workplaces.

Seventeen percent of employee theft in organizations with fewer than 500 employees occurs in the financial services industry, according to a new report. 

A new survey finds an overwhelmingly large percentage of the public not only favors background checks, but thinks they should be mandatory.

The government will start scanning Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media accounts of federal employees and contractors applying and re-applying for security clearances.