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What healthcare background screening covers Healthcare background screening combines checks selected for a person’s duties, workplace, and jurisdiction. A complete program may review criminal history, healthcare exclusions, professional credentials, identity, employment or education, drug testing, and role-specific registries. No single search answers every eligibility question. Role duties determine which additional checks belong in the package. […]

Published: March 16, 2026 | Reading Time: 6 minutes You’ve done everything right. You ran a compliant background check, reviewed the results carefully, and identified a concern. But before you can move forward, the candidate pushes back — they say the report is wrong. Now what? Candidate disputes are more common than many HR teams […]

5 Background Check Mistakes — VICTIG VICTIG Background Checks 5 Background Check MistakesThat Put Your Company at Risk And most HR teams don’t realize they’re making them. After nearly two decades in the screening industry, we’ve seen the same costly mistakes on repeat. Here are the top 5. 1 High Risk 🔍 Only Screening at […]

As you are aware, federal law imposes obligations on you before and after you use information from VICTIG to take “adverse action” for employment purposes. To review: Before taking an adverse action, the user must provide a copy of the report to the consumer as well as the summary of the consumer’s rights (The user […]

Complying with laws and regulations when using VICTIG Background Checks In the current business climate, finding workers is probably one of your top challenges. At the same time, finding and hiring an unsuitable worker can be worse than no worker. Employers must assess the nature of the job, and its degree of risk to third […]

VICTIG’s QuickApp is an application that allows your applicants to enter all their information and complete the required compliance procedures for the reports you have chosen to request on them. There are several reasons you might consider this process. Compliance As you are aware, before ordering information from VICTIG, you must provide disclosure to the […]

We have written in the past about some county turnaround times that have been unusually long due to Covid court access restrictions and some jurisdictions (particularly in California and Michigan) restricting access to date of birth—which absent a social security number is used as a secondary identifier. Regarding turnaround times, our internal team was asked […]

While the situation has improved over the last couple of months, we are still finding that court records in some counties have been slower to return than normal. There are a couple of reasons.  The first of course is COVID and the shutting down of physical access. That is a temporary situation that has been improving.  […]

In a previous article, we addressed the Disclosure and Authorization. In particular, the requirement to provide disclosure and obtain authorization and to pay particular attention to keeping them simple, without extraneous language. And yet, criminal records are public records. The accusation, trial, and sentencing are public records. There is a move to suppress identifiers on […]

Where do I need to be careful? Pre/Post Adverse Action In past articles, we discussed Permissible Purpose and the Disclosure and Authorization. This article assumes you have a permissible purpose, have obtained a compliant Disclosure and Authorization, have ordered and received the information, and said to yourself “uh-oh” after looking at it. If you review […]

Our last article discussed Permissible Purpose. This one addresses your Disclosure and Authorization. Now don’t yawn and stop reading just yet. 100% of you reading this have certified to us that you will provide disclosure and obtain authorization before ordering information from us. That’s not the issue and the reason many companies have paid millions […]

Where Do I Need to Be Careful?  We are going to do a four-part series on where employers get into trouble when screening workers. It’s four areas you should manage. Permissible Purpose Your Disclosure and Authorization before obtaining reports Your Pre and Post Adverse Action Notices Job Relatedness and Business Necessity But first, if you […]