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Post Hire Screening

Your applicant arrives at your office, very well prepared for the interview. He makes a great impression and you decide to give him a conditional offer of employment and send him for the background check. He passes the background check with flying colors. No criminal record, clean drug test, valid drivers license, etc. He accepts the offer and has become your new employee. In the beginning, things are going well. He’s a quick learner, he… [Read More]

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Applicant Tracking Systems

Many organizations in a variety of industries are utilizing an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to help streamline the hiring process. POE has integrations set up with many ATS providers. With a click of the button, you can order, track and receive completed reports through your ATS. If you are interested in integrating your ATS with POE, please let us know. But what if you haven’t had the time to analyze which ATS is best for… [Read More]

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Adverse Action Notification Process

Employers who conduct employment background checks, also known as consumer reports and/or investigative consumer reports, as part of the employment process, which includes hiring, promotion, and retention, must comply with Federal law requirements under section 604 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, (FCRA). Before rejecting a job applicant, denying a promotion or terminating an employee based in whole or in part on information obtained in a consumer report, employers are obligated under the FCRA to… [Read More]

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Revised Authorizations & Disclosures

Why the Revisions???? Between January 2015 and June 2015, over 1500 FCRA related Class Action Lawsuits were filed. According to Top Class Actions, among the companies which have been named as Defendants in FCRA related class Action Lawsuits in 2014 and 2015 are the following: Pizza Hut Whole Foods Dollar General Home Depot Publix Super markets UBS Financial Services Allegis Group, Inc. Aerotek Avis Michaels Stores, Inc. Wells Fargo Bank Some of these cases have… [Read More]

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2nd Chance Program – Individualized Assessments

POE wants to thank Sarah Callander and Mary-Denise Davis of the Office of the Public Defender, for allowing us to attend the 5th Annual Back to the Neighborhood: How to Succeed with a Criminal Record, an event sponsored by the Office of Public Defender and the Justice Policy Institute. Attendees of this July 23, 2015 event took part in community dialogues, learned about current practices and were offered legal assistance. POE sat in on a… [Read More]