A background check can sink a job offer if prospective employers don’t like what they see. While they can request to have a lot of information about a job candidate’s past included in such a report, ...

As the economy emerges from the pandemic, hiring has been on the rebound, and with it, employment background screening. According to the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA), ...

Employers are scrambling to hire, and business is booming at Sterling Check, a company that scrutinizes job applicants’ past for information omitted in résumés and that doesn’t come up in interviews.

Companies are looking a whole lot deeper than just your social media posts when they do a background check. Companies doing background checks on job seekers who've applied to work for them is not ...

Have you found yourself scouring the web for jobs only to see post after post asking for a college degree or MBA? How about jobs that ask for references or expect you to have industry experience and ...

CLEAR LAKE, Texas (KTRK) -- Prayers were answered for some job seekers after attending a job fair where employers cared more about qualifications than criminal backgrounds. At a job fair, going from ...

Job applicant loses offer when background check calls him a sex offender. Aug. 29, 2011 — -- Samuel Jackson thought his job offer from Optics Planet was a done deal -- but then a routine ...