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5 Steps to Easy Background Checks Featured Image

5 Steps to Easy Background Checks

The ideal background check for employment is simple enough for you, your clients, and job candidates to navigate. At the same time, the process goes...

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What Is a Background Investigation and Why Is It Important? Featured Image

What Is a Background Investigation and Why Is It Important?

When filling employee, contractor, and volunteer roles, the hiring process allows you to meet with and evaluate candidates. There are many tools you...

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The Use of Gender Pronouns in Background Checks Featured Image

The Use of Gender Pronouns in Background Checks

More than 1 million nonbinary adults live in the United States today, according to a study revealed in the Washington Post. This growing population...

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The Different Sex Offender Levels and What They Mean Featured Image

The Different Sex Offender Levels and What They Mean

What is a "Tier"? A Tier is a level in which a Sex Offender is categorized based on the sexual offense.

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Not All Crimes Are Fingerprint Worthy Featured Image

Not All Crimes Are Fingerprint Worthy

The FBI database used for employment and volunteer screening contains one tenth the records of a commercial database (40 million vs. 450 million)...

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A Better Screen for Alabama Schools Featured Image

A Better Screen for Alabama Schools

Background screening in schools certainly has its challenges; however, it's an important part of keeping your schools safe. So if it's worth doing,...

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Lowering Standards to Hire in a Tough Job Market – 4 Things You Can Do Featured Image

Lowering Standards to Hire in a Tough Job Market – 4 Things You Can Do

We're living in a candidate-driven market, which means that the power is in the hands of the job seekers. It's tough finding great people to work...

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National Databases: Safety Net or Total Solution Featured Image

National Databases: Safety Net or Total Solution

Our broader mission at BIB is to help businesses and communities protect their members and organizations from unnecessary risks, and we believe...

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Why some courthouses take a long time to process searches Featured Image

Why some courthouses take a long time to process searches

An important detail to understand about the length of time a background check takes is that it is jurisdictionally driven. There are approximately...

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Who Should You Be Screening and Why? Featured Image

Who Should You Be Screening and Why?

When it comes to running background checks, most people think of them as a tool to help protect vulnerable populations and if a volunteer or employee...

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