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• January 20, 2022

Accuracy in background screening is critical to your hiring process. Without it, you’re wasting valuable time and financial resources, and you’re increasing hiring risk.

An accurate background check provides you with the assurance you’ve taken extra steps to understand the people you hire and protect your customers, patients, and workforce. However, selecting just any background screening provider doesn’t guarantee accuracy. In fact, it may even result in hiring decisions based on erroneous or incomplete background information.

In the 2021 Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) and HR.com employer background screening survey, respondents named quality and accuracy the most important factors when considering a background screening provider. However, some employers find quality and accuracy difficult to achieve, especially when working with a screening provider who lacks processes for delivering consistent quality assurance.

A lack of accuracy in background screening is often easy to spot, because it usually takes the form of errors and incomplete information in background check results. Unfortunately, these errors can lead you to make risky hiring decisions and possibly incur non-compliance penalties related to laws such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).