Background screening and investigations : managing hiring risk from the HR and security perspectives / By W. Barry Nixon and Kim M. Kerr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nixon, W. Barry.

Contributor:

Kerr, Kim M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employee screening.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Hiring highly qualified people is crucial to every company, and Background Screening and Investigations is an essential guide to succeeding in a turbulent business environment. A crucial part of any hiring process should be employment background screening, pre- and post-hire, which gives hiring personnel a glimpse into a person's past behavior patterns, propensities, and likely future behavior. Background Screening and Investigations describes all aspects of the employment background screening processes - its history and evolution, the imperative for implementing a screening process, a

Contents:

Managing risk in the hiring process

Legal issues in background checks

The role of security in the hiring process

Insights from background screening surveys

Background checking policy

Make or buy

The new focus on protecting personal identifiable information

Infinity screening: never ending background screening

Screening strategies for temporaries; casual labor; consultants; contractors and vendors

The special case of sexual offenders

The other side of background screening

International background checks: the new frontier in employment screening

Future trends in background screening.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611273170

9781281273178

1281273171

9780080569178

008056917X

OCLC:

437208244