Human Resources Blog

Updates to Form I-9 for 2023

Updates to Form I-9 for 2023 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced a new version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Employers must use Form I-9 to verify the identity and employment authorization of their employees. If this is...

Workplace Training: Don’t Sabotage Yourself at Work!

Workplace Training: Don’t Sabotage Yourself at Work! While we primarily deal in Human Resources and Pre-Employment, we also want to offer training and education to workers of all stripes! Today we will be focused on anyone feeling like they are in a rut....

Workplace Drug Test Policies Unaffected by Legalized Marijuana

Workplace Drug Test Policies Unaffected by Legalized Marijuana Is a candidate thinking about sparking one up before starting a new job? They might want to reconsider! Legal experts agree that no matter how many places legalize marijuana, the American workforce should...

Revamp Talent Management to Develop Employees into Leaders

Revamp Talent Management to Develop Employees into Leaders We all agree that we’re in the 21st century, right? Then why do so many organizations have Talent Management models that are clearly from the business stone age? After all, the entire point of managing...

President Obama’s Fair Chance Business Pledge Broken Down

President Obama’s Fair Chance Business Pledge Broken Down From whitehouse.gov: “The White House is building on past efforts by challenging businesses to take on the “Fair Chance Business Pledge,” a nationwide call-to-action to accomplish the shared goal of...

Partner Post: Purple Vision – A colorful way for HR to develop unique talents

Partner Post: Purple Vision – A colorful way for HR to develop unique talents Today’s blog comes to us from our partner company TTI Success Insights and Henry Lowe – a trainer and consultant at TTI. Can TTI Success Insights offer HR color proofing?...

UPDATED: Important Reminder of FCRA’s Adverse Action Process

UPDATED: Important Reminder of FCRA’s Adverse Action Process Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.” In the case of the Adverse Action process it also takes less MONEY to do...

Imagine Your Day Without People Problems…

Imagine Your Day Without People Problems… The more information you can gather about an applicant prior to hire, the stronger chance you will have of finding the perfect fit for the position you are trying to fill. This is exactly why pre-hire talent assessments...

Human Resources Training: Toxic Employees

Human Resources Training: Toxic Employees The Human Resources department should always be the one paving the way for company culture. Occasionally a hiccup can occur and someone in the organization will be come toxic to that culture. In today’s HR Training, we...

Human Resources Training: Workplace Violence

Human Resources Training: Workplace Violence Violence in the workplace is unbelievably difficult to handle. In today’s Human Resources Training blog, we will use a series of questions to identify different types of workplace violence, perpetrators, potential...

Human Resources Training: Know Your Employee Rights!

Human Resources Training: Know Your Employee Rights! Is your employer violating your rights as an employee? What a harrowing thought to have on your mind! Fear not: we have some answers to common workplace misconceptions and what to do if your employer is violating...

Changing HR platforms or Background Screening Vendors? Ask these questions first!

Changing HR platforms or Background Screening Vendors? Ask these questions first! For most HR departments there will come a time in the business cycle when you are faced with evaluating vendors and the tools you use. Whether it’s a payroll system overhaul or a...

Challenges of a Modern Human Resources Department

Challenges of a 2016 Human Resources Department We speak to Human Resources professionals every single day of the work week. That’s actually a huge part of our job, not only as a background screening company, but also as HR advisors to our clients. In speaking...

Businesses are Evolving, but are Human Resources Departments?

Businesses are Evolving, but are Human Resources Departments? The Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business has described progress in the HR world as “glacial.” While it’s unclear...

10 Steps to Reduce Employee Turnover (Including Background Screening!)

10 Steps to Reduce Employee Turnover (Including Background Screening!) Is your turnover high? Experts agree that the best way to mitigate that is to have a strong pre-hire process. Knowing up-front exactly how good of a fit a candidate is can save your company time,...

7 Helpful Tips for Human Resources Success

7 Helpful Tips for Human Resources Success Many people gravitate toward Human Resources for the same reason: we love being there to help the ones we work with! That is the ultimate core of what we do. So keeping that core in mind, here are some tips from InfoQuest to...