Online “Short Course” to Pre-Employment Screening

Approximately thirty (30) minutes of reading providing an introduction to safe hiring.

See also the ESR online educational course on Safe Hiring and employment screening background checks leading to a Certificate of Completion »»

Background Screening Can Help Boss and Applicants
— Introduction to the benefits of background screening and legal considerations.
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Checking for Crimes
— What employers can–and can't–find out about applicants.
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Use Your References Well
— Introduction to reference checking of job applicants.
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Credit Reports and Job Hunting
— Article by ESR for both employers and job applicants on the role of credit reports and employment.
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Special Report:
— Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act in Four Easy Steps. This special report reviews the steps that employers need to take to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act in conducting Pre-employment background screening of job applicants through a Consumer Reporting Agency such as Employment Screening Resources.
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Special Report for hospitals and health care providers:
— "Outsourced Pre-employment Screening," by Les Rosen, president of ESR. This is a report on how hospitals and health care facilitates outsource this important task.
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Why applications are key:
— Column in the November 16, 2000 Sunday San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle by Lester S. Rosen, President of Employment Screening Resources.
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10 way to know you are hiring a lawsuit waiting to happen:
— Employee lawsuits often catch employers by surprise. Yet an examination of the employee's application shows that an employer could often have predicted well in advance that they were hiring a lawsuit just waiting to happen. By looking for the following ten (10) danger signals an employer can avoid hiring a problem in the first place.
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Ten Safe Hiring Tools:
— When recruiters, hiring managers or human resources professionals need to fill a position, it's not enough to simply look for the proper skills set, experience, or a good fit. Employers must also determine if there are reasons not to hire the candidate. Without taking some measure to ensure safe hiring, it is a statistical certainty that a firm will make costly hiring mistakes. Fortunately for employers, there are ten evaluation tools that can be used immediately at no cost.]
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An Introduction to Background Screening and Safe Hiring:
— Even with all of the advantages of a screening program, many employers still have questions and concerns about implementing background checks. These are the eight most commons concerns that employers express.
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