Background Screening And Investigations: Managing Hiring Risk From The Hr And Security Perspectives

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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, and the creation of a comprehensive policy. Nixon and Kerr show how security and human resources professionals can work together to negotiate legal hurdles and make their background screening process successful. * Where do HR and security perspectives differ on hot topics like hiring convicted felons, data protection, and sexual predators? * What does state law allow when screening job candidates? * How should companies deal with emerging issues like international background investigations and continuous (Infinity) screening of current employees?

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Background Screening and Investigations This page intentionally left blank Background Screening and Investigations Managing Hiring Risk From the HR and Security Perspectives W. Barry Nixon, SPHR, and Kim M. Kerr, CPP with contributing authors AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Cover images by iStockphoto Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK Copyright # 2008, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Except Appendix A, copyright # 2007 Littler MendelsonW, P.C.; Appendix B and Appendix D, copyright held exclusively by the National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence, Inc.; Appendix C, copyright held jointly by the National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence, Inc. and the Human Equation; Appendix E is in the public domain; Appendix F, copyright General Electric Company 1997-2004; Appendix G, copyright owned by Eric D. Shaw, Lynn F. Fischer, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, Monterey, CA; Appendix H, copyright First Advantage Corporation, Transportation Services Division; Appendix I, copyright held exclusively by Wanda Hackett, Ph.D., Wanda Hackett Enterprises. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, E-mail: [email protected] may also complete your request online via the Elsevier homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting “Support & Contact” then “Copyright and Permission” and then “Obtaining Permissions.” Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nixon, W. Barry. Background screening and investigations : managing hiring risk from the HR and security perspectives / By W. Barry Nixon and Kim M. Kerr. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8256-5 (alk. paper) 1. Employee screening. I. Kerr, Kim M. II. Title. HF5549.5.E429N59 2008 658.3’112–dc22 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-0-7506-8256-5 For information on all Butterworth–Heinemann publications visit our Web site at www.books.elsevier.co