Background Screening Blog

Verified Credentials, a trusted background screening provider and Oracle Gold Partner, now offers another integration within the Oracle Cloud HCM suite. Verified Credentials has paired our on-demand background screening solutions with Oracle Recruiting Cloud, an applicant tracking system within the Oracle HCM Cloud suite. This extension of our partnership makes it simple for teams that already use, or plan to use, Oracle Recruiting Cloud to seamlessly connect their Verified Credentials background checks. Oracle Recruiting Cloud enables employers to track and measure complete candidate information across the HR spectrum. Paired with our proprietary technology and reliable background checks, employers can create a better hiring experience from start to finish. Once our team helps you get everything up and running, your team can potentially save money, time, and even yield better-fitting candidates.

Topics: ATS Integration, Efficiency, Employment Background Checks, Candidate Self-Service, Company News, Technology

Don’t you hate that feeling when you rush and forget something on the way out of the door? If you need the same things every time you leave your home, having everything all in one place, ready to go, can make the process easier. You could say the same could about your background screening process. Individual orders for positions you regularly hire don’t have to be time-consuming. You could even limit the risk of skipping essential searches. Creating custom background check packages is a great way to address potential inconsistencies with a la carte ordering. Having preset custom packages ready to screen candidate pools is like always having a to-go bag ready.

Topics: Efficiency, Employment Background Checks, Background Check Packages

Recruiting, vetting, and hiring new employees can be time-consuming. We believe that end-to-end hiring is the future of HR. This is why Verified Credentials has added UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management, to our growing list of integrated technology partners. Providing high-efficiency, simplified background screening solutions is one more way we put our clients first. Verified Credentials users can now seamlessly connect their employment screening with the rest of their hiring process directly through UKG's dashboard. Here are a few ways our integration with UKG is designed to improve and simplify the user experience without sacrificing results.

Topics: ATS Integration, Efficiency, Employment Background Checks, Candidate Self-Service, Company News, Technology

Verified Credentials has a new partner to add to a growing list of pre-integrated solutions – PageUp. Using an applicant tracking system can help make the lives of HR professionals easier by increasing efficiency and potentially saving time to focus on other tasks. Verified Credentials clients can now recruit qualified candidates, track applicants, and screen them right from PageUp’s dashboard.

Topics: ATS Integration, Efficiency, Employment Background Checks, Candidate Self-Service, Company News, Technology

Compliance is one of the top human resource issues employers need help to grasp. It’s also one of the most crucial areas for HR to understand. Recently, Verified Credentials sponsored the HR.com State of Legal, Compliance and Employment Law, 2022-23 report. This report shows that most HR pros believe their business is equipped to handle compliance-related issues. On top of that, eight out of ten respondents believe the focus on the area will increase through 2025.

Topics: Compliance, FCRA, Fair Credit Reporting Act

Where and how people work has changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most modern change may be the increase in the number of remote employees. Estimates suggest that one in every four Americans worked remotely through 2021. Efficiencies, cost savings, and employee demand that remote work provides may continue this upward trend. A recent survey found that “59% of respondents said they would be more likely to choose an employer who offered remote work than those who didn’t.” Hiring remote employees may become a necessity in the years ahead. Is your background screening program prepared for this new reality? This blog will cover some popular solutions that can be useful in conducting background checks for remote candidates and employees:

Topics: Employment Verifications, Academic Verifications

It’s that time of year when many HR managers have begun to check off a host of annual to-do lists. Increasingly, that means conducting annual employee screenings, aka background checks. The practice of periodically rescreening employees continues to rise in popularity. It provides employers with updated employee information, helps maintain a safe workplace, and ensures employees are still qualified for their roles. If it's been a while since you conducted annual background checks, you may want to revisit your rescreening program to ensure it aligns with your vision for 2023 and beyond. Let's look at some changes employers might consider by rebooting annual employee rescreens.

Topics: Recurring Screening

As we look ahead into 2023, it may be a good time to look back and reevaluate your company’s professional verification process. Confirming a candidate’s employment history can be critical in determining whether they are the right fit for a particular role. To make sure your processes are ready for the year ahead, ask yourself these nine questions for a verification tune-up:

Topics: Employment Verifications, Academic Verifications

Clare Horvik, Vice President of Marketing for Verified Credentials, invited Ben Mones, CEO of Fama Technologies, for an interview to discuss a hot topic – social media screening.

Topics: Employment Background Checks, Candidate Experience, Employment Verifications, social media screening, Employee Experience