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Industry Overview
KPMG
reports (May 2005) that the background screening industry
is highly fragmented, with thousands of providers –
creating a barbell shape. According to KPMG, The pre employment
screening industry represents a $2 billion domestic market.
The five largest participants are positioned on one-end
(US Investigations, First Advantage, ChoicePoint, Kroll
and ADP), a large number of smaller players are on the other,
with a relatively few number of companies in between. Only
four companies have screening revenues exceeding $100 million
annually, two exceeding $400 million. Less than 10 have
revenues of over $40 million, less than 15 at $20 million
and less than 25 are at over $10 million.Investment banking
firm Robert W. Baird & Co. estimates annual growth for
the pre employment screening industry at approximately 7%,
on the assumption that overall market penetration grows
from 50% to 70%.
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BIS Receives Prestigious Award
BIS
selected as a Weatherhead 100 winner for 2005. This honor,
awarded by Case Western Reserve University’s business
school, distinguishes BIS as one of the 100 fastest growing
organizations in Northeast Ohio. We are truly honored by
this distinction and wish to thank both our clients and
our dedicated BIS associates for helping us build an organization
for which we can all be proud. For more information about
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Banks
Face Challenge In Screening Employees To Avert Inside ID Thefts
When two of
the nation's largest banks were forced to notify thousands of
customers that their financial records may have been stolen, there
wasn't a hacker, a missing laptop or a lost box of backup computer
tapes to blame. This time, police believe, customers of Wachovia
Corp. and Bank of America Corp. were the victims of bank employees,
workers whose jobs at the Charlotte-based banks granted them access
to information valuable enough to sell for $10 an account. Click
here for more information
Washington
Watch
The US Intelligence
community is constructing a data exchange standard to assist in
sharing information about terrorism. The Terrorist Watchlist Person
Data Exchange Standard is being developed by the Intelligence
Community Metadata Working Group.
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Accurate Background, Inc., Introduces Internet Verification
Affiliate Network
The
application called IVAN allows employment verifications,
education verifications and professional references to be
conducted on-line at home by trained, screened contract
affiliates.“IVAN is a one-of-a-kind technological
advance in the industry -- providing flexibility and scalability
for our human resource, security and loss-prevention management
clients,” says Dave Dickerson, president and CEO of
Accurate Background, Inc.
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here for more information
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Compli and AbsoluteHire Partner to Develop Enhanced
Liability Management System for U.S. Auto Dealerships
Leading
compliance software company Compli(R) has formed a partnership
with AbsoluteHire, the leading provider of pre-employment
software to auto dealerships. The two companies will integrate
into the Compli DLMS system the AbsoluteHire applicant tracking
and pre-employment screening software. The resulting product
for employment practice and regulatory compliance for dealerships
will also feature legal content and training technology
from Prevention Point, the technology subsidiary of top
employment law firm Fisher & Phillips (http://compli.com/news/news.php?p=pr&i=22).
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Integrated
Screening Partners Announces Unprecedented “Guaranteed Four-Day
Turnaround or Free” Program
Integrated
Screening Partners announces an unprecedented four-day guaranteed
turnaround on their pre-employment screening and background checks.
Integrated Screening Partners (ISP) is a ten-year veteran in the
pre-employment screening industry with high profile clients including
Dell, Samsung and AMD. Integrated Screening Partners is known
for creating strategic partnerships with their clients. These
partnerships encourage dialogue that enables ISP to create customized
business solutions designed to maximize their clients’ desired
results.
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ADMIT COMPUTER SERVICES INTRODUCES IMPACT: ® PISTOL
(PHOTO IMAGING SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY ON LINE)
Admit
Computer Services has introduced The PISTOL System, a software
program that enables public safety departments to capture
images of prisoners, property, accident scenes, and crime
scene photos, etc., and link them to the company's IMPACT:
Records Management System database for viewing with other
pertinent information. Mug shots are linked to an individual's
data, and can be retrieved for identification at police
headquarters.
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Integrated Employment Screening Solution
HireRight
of Irvine, California, and VirtualEdge Corporation of Yardley,
PA, have developed an integrated employment screening solution
through VirtualEdge's Enterprise Staffing Suite. The solution
helps eliminate duplicate data entry and maintain consistency
in the screening and hiring processes. It also reduces data
entry errors, reduces administrative and training costs,
and improves overall speed and efficiency in the screening
process. The automated process verifies factual information
submitted by applicants for employment, including criminal
and employment history, education credentials, credit reports,
motor vehicle records, references and more. Drug-screening
services are also available through the platform.
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Instant
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RapidCourt is the leading provider of instant
AOC criminal records for North Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut
and Oregon.
RapidCourt
combines instant online access with innovative search features
that can help you compile the most comprehensive criminal
data available.
Visit
us at the Pre-Employment Screeners ConferenceNovember 13-16,
2005 in Clearwater Florida. Be sure to ask about our upcoming
National Sex Offender Registry.
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Wave
of the Future
HireRight
Inc. of Irvine, California has entered into an agreement with
Recruitmax Software Inc. headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, CA
in which HireRight’s employment background and drug screening
services will be pre-integrated into the Recruitmax Corporate
Edition software.
Webhire
Inc., headquartered in Lexington, MA and New York based
Sterling Testing Systems have formed a partnership
that will provide Webhire customers with access to an online application
for background checking, drug testing and other screening services
available from Sterling.
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California
Workers’ Compensation Fraud Bill Will Expose Defendants
This bill
would require the department, with respect to each person, as
defined, convicted of a violation of any of these insurance fraud
provisions involving workers’ compensation insurance, services,
or benefits, to post on its Internet Web site information relating
to the case and the defendant. Click
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OFCCP Finalizes Definition of 'Applicant'
The
U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs (OFCCP) has issued a final rule clarifying record
keeping provisions concerning who is an "applicant"
in the context of the Internet and related technologies.
The final
rule published in the Federal Register applies to federal
contractors
who are subject to the record keeping provisions of the
laws enforced by OFCCP. Click
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Five Surprises in the New Junk Fax Law
The
new junk fax law changes how you can fax information to
customers. Here's five gotchas you weren't expecting. If
your business has a fax machine, please keep reading, because--surprise,
surprise--the feds now have a new law governing junk faxes
that may have a big impact your business. The Junk Fax Prevention
Act of 2005 (JFPA), which went into effect on July 9, 2005,
has many new requirements or "surprises" that
dictate how even "routine" faxes must be sent
to your customers. Click
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Employment Based Immigration Visa `Bank’ Created
The $82 billion
"Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the
Global War on Terror and Tsunami Relief of 2005" contains
immigration measures affecting the admission and employment of
foreign nationals in the United States. It also recaptures unused
employment? based immigrant visas for workers in specified Schedule
A occupations, notably registered nurses and physical therapists.
The act places the employment based visas for Schedule A occupations
that went unused from fiscal years 2001 to 2004 in a "bank"
for future use, when demand for employment-based visas in EB-1,
2 and 3 categories exceed the annual quota. The legislation also
sets minimum standards for federal recognition of state-issued
identification cards and driver's licenses, including verification
of immigration status; ostensibly to make obtaining these documents
nearly impossible for undocumented workers. The provisions become
effective in May 2008.
Contractors
Hit by Fallout of Predator Act
An amendment
to the Jessica Lunsford Act passed in Florida earlier this year
is hitting some contractors hard in their wallets. In an attempt
to restrict sexual predators' access to children, the law requires
contractors to have a full background check completed before they
can work on school property. Steve Cona Jr., president and CEO
of the Associated Builders and Contractors' Florida Gulf Coast
chapter, opposes the legislation due to the costs and time involved
in conducting background checks on as many as 250 workers per
job site. Cona has proposed a revision that would force contractors
to submit sworn written certification each year that all workers
have been screened, charging violators with a first-degree misdemeanor.
Manatee County School District attorney John Bowen thinks it would
be easier to charge sexual predators who set foot on school property
with a third-degree felony offense, as such a charge is likely
to keep them off campus.
Click
here for more information
Michigan
Background Screening
Michigan lawmakers
are considering a bill (S.B. 621) that would require all of the
state's 5,000 nursing homes to conduct criminal background checks
on all prospective employees. Also, the bill would require these
facilities to conduct annual criminal back-ground checks on current
workers. Failure to enforce these rules would be a felony punishable
by a fine of $ 50,000 and up to four years in prison. The bill
has a good chance of becoming law because it was authored by Michigan
Attorney General Mike Cox and was introduced after a state-sponsored
study revealed that 25 per-cent of those residential-care employees
who committed crimes against patients had prior convictions for
similar acts.'
Which
airlines can you trust?
Want to be
sure you're booking a flight with an airline that's got a good
track record for on-time arrivals, luggage handling and more?
Check out the detailed "report cards" at http://www.aqr.aero/.
To download a PDF featuring useful comparison reports, click on
the "2005 Airline Quality Rating" button on the main
screen. (Note: Scroll to the end to see the best info.)
Report
Recommends Japan Conduct Back ground Checks on Nuclear Facilities’
Employees
Japan, which
has relied on the belief that employees are inherently good, had
to adopt a background check system after the International Atomic
Energy Agency demanded in the 1999 Physical Protection of Nuclear
Material and Nuclear Facilities Rev. 4 that member countries determine
the trustworthiness of their employees. The Economy, Trade and
Industry Ministry's subcommittee on nuclear disaster prevention,
which supervises commercial nuclear power plants, compiled in
June a report on measures to cope with internal adversaries at
nuclear facilities. The report says the government should establish
a system for cross-sectional background checks on officials responsible
for defense and law and order. Click
here for more information
Global
Screening Increasing
As India and
the Far East economically expand so, too, does the demand for
background screening. But it ain't easy, say experts in the field.
Consider: There are 27 different ways to spell the name Muhammad.
Each person born in India has two dates of birth—one biological
and one when the birth is officially recorded. In China, the history
of government monitoring of personal lives makes residents wary
of company background checks. Nevertheless, demand is high, says
Traci Canning, director of international operations for HireRight,
a screening company based in Irvine, Calif. Many American companies
adopt global policies that call for pre-employment screening,
she says, and as multinationals set up offshoring companies—or
contract with native companies—around the world, those policies
are enforced. The scale of growth in India and Asia offers special
challenges. In China, for example, the country is projected to
grow about 20 million new jobs this year. In India, it's about
12 million jobs, says Valez. Contrast that growth with the 1.5
million U.S. jobs projected this year, he says. Click
here for more information
Fraud
boomed in the United Kingdom in 2004
A survey by
accounting firm BDO Story Hayward indicates that the value of
reported fraud doubled from 2003. The most significant increases
were in utilities, information, manufacturing and wholesale trade.
By contrast, fraud actually declined in retail, educational services
and transportation and warehousing.
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Investigations, be sure to attend this important workshop)
Business
Forums International’s, UK Identity Fraud Summit 2005,
18 November 2005, Holiday Inn London Forum, Kensington SW7. Click
here for more information.
‘Technology's
Impact on Background Screening,’ By W. Barry Nixon,
Security Products, October 2005. Click
here for more information. Includes comments by Kim Kerr,
Lexus/Nexus Screening Solutions, Dennis Drellishak, Corporate
Screening Services, Barry Nadell, InfoLink Screening Services
‘Electronic
Fingerprinting: HR Departments are using technology to weed out
candidates with criminal records.’ August, 2005
HR Magazine, See www.SHRM.org
‘New
law empowers security firms, private employers with information’
(Intel Reform Act), Supplement to Security Director News, Sept.
2005. See www.securitydirectornews.com.
‘Privacy
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