At GroupOne Background Screening, we make reference checks easy! Did you know we provide both personal and professional reference checks as part of our background check process or à la carte? You may choose from either standard questions or...
Read MoreCounty wants to help certain offenders clear their criminal records
Excerpted from a Bucks County Courier Times article by Damon C. Williams For some Bucks County residents, their debt to society isn’t truly paid even after they serve their time or meet the other qualifications of their sentence. Their...
Read MoreThree costly background check mistakes – avoid those land mines!
Detail orientation, detail orientation, detail orientation – it’s a requirement for proper background screening. While this may not be headline news, we should all be reminded of this rule, and often. Our profession is defined by precise rules...
Read MoreWe verify the past to protect your future – GP1’s background screening!
Yes, we know. For a company named GroupOne Background Screening, you think it would be obvious as to what we offer – background screening. In fact, we offer a comprehensive set of screening solutions to ensure you get the facts you need to make...
Read MoreBe Rational, Check International! – GroupOne International Screening
It’s a small world! Today, international job applicants are more common than ever before. It’s important to know where your applicant has lived and what they have in their background. Today, international background checks have become more...
Read MoreClear your Volunteer – GroupOne’s screening provides FCRA coverage
Here at GroupOne Background Screening, we’ve been checking on volunteers for over 20 years. Volunteers are screened for the same reason employers conduct background checks – to verify identity and eliminate problems that could arise from an...
Read MoreGroupOne hosting booth at Gulf Coast Symposium, Aug. 3-4
GroupOne will be hosting booth #222 during the Gulf Coast HR Symposium, Aug. 3-4 at the NRG Center in Houston, Texas. The event offers more than 130 diverse sessions and speakers covering a broad variety of HR industry topics over a busy two...
Read MoreCalifornia Court of Appeal ruling could severely restrict employment background checks
Excerpted from a JDSupra Blog California employers should review their employment background check procedures in light of recent developments. The California Court of Appeal recently ruled in All of Us or None of Us v. Hamrick that an...
Read MoreLegal ruling provides good news for employers performing background checks
Excerpted from a Clingen Callow & McLean LLC blog by Ross I. Molho and Iman Eikram The United States Supreme Court recently held there must be a “concrete” harm before one can sue under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) TransUnion LLC v...
Read MoreCriminal background check litigation on the rise: What employers need to know
Excerpted from a Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP blog by Robert T. Quackenboss, Kevin J. White and Eileen Henderson Despite predictions to the contrary, class action litigation over criminal background checks in the hiring process has continued to...
Read MoreWhy you screen candidates – woman embezzles for third time for take of $1.35m
If you can save your company $1 million, you’re going to take advantage of that opportunity, right? Here at GroupOne Background Screening, we can offer you one solution – vigorously screen your job candidates, especially those working with money...
Read MoreCan a job candidate refuse a background check?
We may be showing our age, but many moons ago we were standing in line at the local video store. A customer wanted to rent a video for the first time and the clerk politely provided an application to be filled out. The customer said he would only...
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