When a credit report can hurt your chances of being hired

A background check can sink a job offer if prospective employers don’t like what they see. While they can request to have a lot of information about a job candidate’s past included in such a report, ...
Forbes

What Goes Into A Pre-Employment Background Check?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the life of a freelancer. Business people shaking hands in the office. Group of business persons in business meeting ...
ABC News

Background Check Wrongly Says Job Seeker is Sex Offender

Job applicant loses offer when background check calls him a sex offender. Aug. 29, 2011 — -- Samuel Jackson thought his job offer from Optics Planet was a done deal -- but then a routine ...
Fast Company

Job Seekers: Make sure you know these vital tips to ensure your background check is accurate

As the economy emerges from the pandemic, hiring has been on the rebound, and with it, employment background screening. According to the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA), ...
Fast Company

This background check company wants to give everyone a fair shot at a job—no matter their past

For many companies, running a background check on a prospective employee is the final step before making a hire. A school might run a background check to make sure a potential teacher is properly ...
Crain's New York

Background-check firm won employers’ trust, but unsettling errors have cost job seekers work

Employers are scrambling to hire, and business is booming at Sterling Check, a company that scrutinizes job applicants’ past for information omitted in résumés and that doesn’t come up in interviews.
USA Today

Will a past misdemeanor show up in an employer background check? Ask HR

Johnny C. Taylor Jr., a human-resources expert, is tackling your questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's ...
HR Dive

TransUnion settles job applicant’s claim that firm’s background check was bogus

The dispute in Kinder v. TransUnion Rental Screening Solutions, Inc. is one of several cases centered on allegedly errant background checks over the past year. Two such cases involved HR services firm ...

‘Once you lie, trust is gone’: Founder shares hiring reality check after candidate alters experience letter

A founder revealed that a candidate was rejected after a background check exposed an edited experience letter. | Trending ...
RealWaystoEarn on MSN

15 Remote Work Opportunities - No Background Check

Do you cringe when a company requires a background check? Do you worry that your less-than-stellar credit might cost you the ...
Los Angeles Times

Need a background check in California? Changes at the courts are causing long waits

Significant delays in the processing of background checks are causing headaches across California, leaving applications for jobs and housing stuck in limbo while making it harder for employers and ...