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Background Checks
- Best FCRA-Compliant Background Check Services for Employers
- Best Background Check Companies: How to Compare and Select a Vendor
- Why we’ve been G2’s #1 since 2016, in our clients’ words
- 8 Questions to Ask a Background Check Company Before You Sign
- Background Check Laws by State: 2026 Guide for Employers
- Social Media Screening: What Employers Can — and Can’t — Legally Do in 2026
- How to Switch Background Check Providers (Without Disrupting Your Hiring)
- Healthcare Background Checks: A Complete Guide for HR and Compliance Teams
- Negligent Hiring: What Every Employer Needs to Know Before Their Next Bad Hire
- What to Do When a Candidate Disputes Their Background Check
- 5 Background Check Mistakes that Put Your Company at Risk
- Background Checks for Remote Employees: What HR Teams Need to Know in 2026
- Continuous Background Monitoring vs. Point-in-Time Checks
- Avoid These Background Screening Mistakes
- Review Your Adverse Action Process
- Bad Information in, Slow or no Information out—Check the Information you Submit
- VICTIG Compliance Tips – Pre/Post Adverse Action
- VICTIG Compliance Tips – Disclosure and Authorization
- VICTIG Compliance Tips – Permissible Purpose
- Membership has it’s Privileges, but VICTIG Does More
- Two Recent Court Cases on the Disclosure and Authorization
- How FBI Criminal Records Work
- Poor Punctuality in the Workplace: Is It a Deal Breaker?
- How Does Employment Drug and Alcohol Testing Work?
- How FBI Background Checks Are Flawed
- How Long Should a Quality Employment Background Check Take?
- How to Reduce Turnover by Using Good Background Checks
- Ultimate Guide to Employee Background Check Compliance
- Why Employment and Education Verifications Matter
- Navigating Aliases/AKAs in National Criminal Records Searches
- What Employers Need to Know About Conducting Background Checks – Part 3 – Reviewing the Report and Adverse Action
- What Employers Need to Know About Conducting Background Checks – Part 2
- What Employers Need to Know About Conducting Background Checks
- VICTIG Makes G2 Crowd’s List of Best B2B Tech Companies
- 4 Common Background Check Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them Part 2
- 8 Common Background Check Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
- Importance of Thorough Background Checks to Prevent Identity Mix-ups
- Choosing the Best Background Check Provider for Your Company
- 4 Interviewing Tips for Hiring Managers – Part Two
- 7 Interview Tips for Hiring Managers
- Volunteerism Best Practices and Trends
- Employee Screening Essentials Before Making Your Next Hire
- Finding the Perfect Tenant
- How to Properly Screen Volunteers for Your Non-profit
- Why Run Background Checks?
- Why Screen Non-profit Employees and Volunteers?
- Conducting FCRA and EEOC Compliant Criminal Background Checks
- How Tennessee’s Airbnb Protects Locals, Hosts, and Guests with Background Checks
- What do Job Seekers Think About Background Checks?
- California’s New Ban-the-Box Legislation Becomes Effective
- Federal and State Provisions for Employee Background Checks and Criminal Records
- Improperly Conducted Background Checks Divide Massachusetts Town
- The Right Way to Make Hiring Decisions Based on Background Checks
- What Should Your Background Check Disclosure Include?
- FTC to Employers: Simple Background Check Disclosures Are Best
- Nevada School Background Check Bill Gets Senate Approval
- Dating App Runs Background Checks on User’s Matches
- Tips for Running Background Checks on Tenants With Pets
- Massachusetts Background Check Laws Receive Pushback from Uber and Lyft
- The Strength of Mentoring
- What to Do When a Background Check Returns Negative Information
- Understanding What Former Employers Can Say During Background Checks
- How Does Open Hiring Work?
- The Case for Open Hiring: New York Bakery Nixes Background Checks, Skills Tests
- Backgrounds Checks and Private and Public School Systems
- Why Has New York City Nixed Salary History Questions During Hiring Process?
- What is Big Data and How Does it Affect Employee Background Screening?
- What to Look for When Choosing a Background Screening Provider
- Airport Launches Employee Screening Pilot Program
- How to Become a Landlord: Tenant Screening and Maintenance
- Background Check Fails to Find Criminal Past of Denver Surgical Technician
- When Background Checks Do Their Job: Employers Share Near-Misses
- Fail-proof Tips to Make Good Hiring Decisions Every Time Part 2
- Fail-proof Tips to Make Good Hiring Decisions Every Time
- Homeland Security Reports on Lax Employee Screening of Airport Workers
- What to Look For in New Employees
- How Technology is Changing the Face of Employee Screening
- A Comprehensive Approach to Protecting Your Business from Insider Threats
- The Value of Continuous Employee Screening
- What is Gig Economy and How Will it Affect Employee Screening Practices?
- How Drug-Use Legislation Will Potentially Change Employee Screening Policies
- New Emphasis for Stronger Security Measures Placed on Screening Providers
- What to Expect When Running Criminal Background Checks
- What You Need to Know about Ban the Box Legislation
- How Background Checks Have Been Changing in 2017
- Why Make the Job Applicant Process a Pleasant Experience for All
- Things to Remember When Conducting Social Media Background Checks
- How Millennial Workers Will Change Background Screening Methods
- Understanding Worker’s Compensation Reports
- Why Request Worker’s Compensation Records in a Background Check
- Conducting Faster Background Checks
- What to Do About Credit Report Inaccuracies
- State Protections Versus the FCRA
- Who Can Request a Credit Report?
- Background Checks and Employee Rights
- What are Credit Reporting Agencies and What Do They Do?
- A Consumer’s Guide to Exercising their Rights
- Why the Fair Credit Reporting Act Exists Today
- Reacting to Background Check Results: Guidelines to Follow
- Creating or Revising Your Company Background Check Policy
- How Verification Screening Saves Your Company the Expense of a Bad Hire
- Pre-Employment Background Screening for “Gig” Employees
- How to Spot a Bad Background Check
- What You Need to Know About the FCRA
- Background Check Compliance: Employee Applicant Rights
- Importance of Maintaining a Company Background Check Policy
- 4 “Must-Haves” of a Comprehensive Background Check
- Background Check Guidelines for Current and Future Employees
- How to Cut Costs with Customized Background Checks
- The Value of a Comprehensive Background Check
- Background Screening for Massage Therapists
- Why Careless Background Checks Will Cost You
- Animal Shelters in Michigan Authorized to Perform Background Checks
- Tenant Screening Secrets: 2 Keys to a Profitable Introduction
- Little League Enhances Background Screening Policies
- Individualized Assessments Gain Favor as Lawsuits Rise
- Background Checks to Face Challenges in New Year
- Irregardless Isn’t a Word, and a Criminal Database Search Isn’t a Background Check
- Background Checks for Uber and Lyft Drivers in Massachusetts Now Strictest in U.S.
- Uber Driver Accused of Attempted Sexual Assault on Woman in Pennsylvania
- Background Screening in Today’s Internet Age
- New FTC Tenant Screening Guidelines
- Does My Company Need a Background Check Policy?
- 1 in 4 Employers Don’t Conduct Pre-employment Background Checks
- Continuous Background Screening
- Austinites Lose Lyft and Uber on Propostion 1 Defeat
- Avoid Costly Errors With Quality Background Check Services
- Potential Lowe’s Employees Receive $50 Gift Cards
- Dot Your I’s and Cross Your T’s
- Do Trump and Clinton Pass a Social Media Background Check?
- FCRA Protects & Informs Consumers
- If You Want to Eat School Lunch With Your Child, Pass a Background Test
- What Hiring Managers Should Look For In Candidates
- What has the SCOTUS Ruling Done for FCRA Suits?
- Good Tenants Make Good Neighbors
- Becoming a Ride-share Driver in California Just Became More Difficult
- The Cost of Pennsylvania’s Child Protective Services Law
- Pre-Employment Screening Tests: How They Relate to Jenga
- The Rules of Fair Housing That Must Be Followed
- 3 Essential Things to Look for When Hiring New Employees
- Dating Background Checks: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
Blog
- Healthcare Background Screening and Sanctions Guide
- FCRA Requirements for Employers
- What are the benefits of using VICTIG’s QuickApp tool?
- We Continue to See Slow Turnaround Times on Background Checks in Some Counties. Why?
- If Criminal Offense Records are Public Records, Why Do I Need to Obtain a Disclosure and Authorization?
- The Case for Reference Checks
- Hiring, COVID, and the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Asking Your Applicants About Their Compensation History
- You’ve Banned the Box and Complied with other Fair Chance to Work Laws…Now What?
- Banning the Box
- NameGrades™
- How Does Employment Drug & Alcohol Testing Work?
- Victig Screening Solutions Joins List of Prestigious Utah Tech Companies
- Tenant Screening Secrets: 3 Keys to Closing
- The Hangover: How Drug & Alcohol Abuse Affects the Workplace
- Everybody Lies: How Resume Fabrications Bleed into Society
- Austin, TX v. Ride-Sharing: A Hot Mess that Hurts Citizens
- Background Check Services: You Get What You Pay For
- History and Details of the FCRA
- SCOTUS Makes History in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins
- Tenant Screening Background Checks
- Background checks help alleviate employee turnover and increase retention
- The Top 5 Things to Look for in a Background Screening Provider
- Fair Housing Laws – How Tenant Screening Background Checks Can Help You Treat Everyone Equal
- Jenga and Pre-Employment
- Pennsylvania Administrators Complain About Legislation that Protects Children
- Getting a Perfect Picture of Employee Drug Use Proves Difficult with Current Screening Methods
- 5 Questions to Consider Asking During Your Next Job Interview
- Should Individuals with Criminal Records Have Equal Consideration in the Hiring Process?
- Education Verifications Provide Better Picture of Job Candidates’ Character
- Millennium/Medicare Lawsuit Highlights Drug-testing Problems
- Students in Indiana to Face Random Drug Testing
- Personal Background Screenings Provide Preparation and Power
- CFPB Penalizes Two Background Screening Report Providers Because They Penalized James Smith #12,049
- Mental Health Screenings More Prevalent in Gun Sales
- 3 Things to Consider When Renting Your Home to Tenants
- Regulations for Employers Conducting Background Screenings Protect Job Seekers
- 6 Tips to Recovery After Identity Theft
- Con-Men in History: Frank Abagnale
- What Employers Should Look For in a Background Screening Report
- Federal Security Clearances Come with Increased Background Checks
- A Royal Con in History: Gregor MacGregor and the Invention of Poyais
- The SEC Stands Up to Violent Criminal Behavior Amongst College Athletes
- TSA Proposes Increased Background Checks to Increase Airport Security
- Uber Continues to Fight Legal Battles in Civil and Criminal Sector
- Whole Foods Fights Background Check Lawsuit
- NFL Background Check Expansion Highlights Issue of Violence in Society
- Landlords Value Rental Histories Over Credit Scores
- Internal Workplace Investigations Should Be Direct and Efficient
- Free Background Checks on Private Gun Sales in Nevada Provide Political Middle Ground
- Choosing the Best Background Protection for Your Business
- The Difficulty in Weeding Out a Legal Substance
- Minnesota Drops the Box on Criminal Record Screenings
- An Increase in Employment Verifications Could Decrease Dishonesty
- 3 Things You Should Know About Negligent Hiring
- Why Hiring Based on Intuition Alone is Playing a Dangerous Game
- US Senate Calls for Stricter Background Check Regulations in Schools
- Choosing the Best Background Protection for Your Business
- US Senate Calls for Stricter Background Check Regulations in Schools
- How Outsourcing Background Checks Provides Increased Security
- Is Lying Ok on a Resume? Some Think So…
- Incomplete FBI Records Keep Qualified Citizens Unemployed
- James Hogue: Con Men in History
- 5 Things You Should Know About Background Screening
- Sexual Offenders Exploit Gaps in School Hiring Systems
- Why Using Uber Might Cause Uber Problems
- 3 Perfect Examples of Why Your Company Should Do Employee Screenings
- Explaining the DIfferent Criminal Background Checks For Screening Applicants
- Preventing Workplace Violence Amongst Employees
- Increase of Lying Found in Resumes
- Reporting a California Eviction
- Education Verification is Trickier Than it Seems
- Maryland Medical Board Considering Background Check Policy
- The Different Types of Background Checks—Are you Doing the Right Ones?
- Staffing Company Solutions
- Assistant Professor is Center of International Resume Fraud
- Lack of Background Checks on Summer Camp Staff Put Kids at Risk
- Do You Have Holes in Your Background Screening Program?
- What Can We Learn from the EOCC v. Kaplan Decision?
- How You Can & Can’t Use a Background Check
- Heartbleed Bug
- Falsified Resume Costs Leading Basketball Coach High Profile Job
- What to Expect from a Tenant’s Background Check
- How to Deal with Applicant Background Check Disputes
- Victig Yearly Customer Satisfaction Survey Results
- Why didn’t you do a background check?
- Radio Shack CEO Resigns in Wake of Resume Scandal
- Utah Employers Discover Resume Falsifications
- Pre-Employment Screening Services Modern Management Needs
- Montana Employers Monitor Applicant Lies on Resumes
- High Profile Businessmen Accused of Credential Fabrication
- Washington Scholar Fired for Education History Falsification
- 3 Essential Reasons for Employment Verification
- California Semiconductor Executives Investigated for Credential Falsification
- OIG – GSA search
- Not everyone does background checks
- Tenant Screening Updates
- We work with iCIMS
- Judge Protects Employers’ Use of Background Checks
- Do you use Peoplesoft?
Compliance
- How to Choose a Drug Screening Provider for Employment Testing
- Marijuana and Drug Testing: What Employers Must Know in 2026
- Where Do I Need to be Careful? Job Relatedness and Business Necessity
- The Authorization
- Disclosure to the Applicant
- Identification of Your Applicants – Let’s Get Back to Basics
- VICTIG Compliance Tips – Are You One in a Million?
- VICTIG Compliance Tips – What Shows Up in a Driving Record?
- VICTIG Compliance Tips – Driving Records with Accidents
- How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Identity Theft
- Minnesota Lawmakers Pass Ban the Box Law
- New credit report restrictions in Nevada and Colorado
- Criminal History Databases: How Accurate They Really AREN’T
- Accurate criminal background checks increasingly hard to find
- Pre-employment drug testing lowers workplace costs
- Quality background checks
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Employment Screening
- Adverse Action: What Employers Need to Know
- 5 Elements You Must Consider in a Background Check Company
- FBI Background Checks Contain Misleading Information
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- New Jersey ain’t foolin’ around
- The Background Check Lullaby
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- Screening employees to help avoid workplace violence.
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- Background Checks Reduce Turnover
- Fraudulent Employment Applications up 160%
- Verification Background Screening Saves Employers Money
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- Fraudulent resumes on the rise
- Commercial ATS/PMS integrations
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- The importance of conducting background checks
- Doing background checks correctly
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- We’ll create the rules, but not play by them
- Always do background checks
- Don’t Cut Corners
- Continual Background Screening
- 2 Surefire Ways to Conduct Employee Background Checks
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- Tenant Background Checks Decrease Tenant Turnover
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- Tenant Screening
- The 4 Corners of Tenant Screening
Uncategorized
- Hiring Compliance Mistakes That Can Lead to Lawsuits in 2026
- Background Check Results – Do You Really Know What You’re Getting?
- FCRA Violations in Background Screening: How Employers Can Stay Compliant
- How Long Should You Keep Background Check Records? A Guide to Federal Retention Requirements
- Don’t Hire Blind: What You’re Missing Without a Federal Search
- Set it and Forget it? Maybe not.
- Everything Employers Need to Know About Adverse Action
- Protecting Your Company: Why Choosing An Accredited Screening Provider Matters
- Infographic – Navigating Aliases/AKAs in National Criminal Records Searches
- How Long Should a Quality Employment Background Check Take? Part 1
- Changes to MVR Audit Instructions in the State of Washington
- Best Practices for Employee Background Checks
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