EBI's own background screening library.

With the resources EBI has at its disposal for background screening, drug testing, and human resources management, we felt it was time to offer a consolidated location for accessing many of our best public research materials, hence EBI's background screening online library was born.

You'll also find a complete archive of our EBI Advisor, our periodic newsletter on the background screening industry located here.

You're welcome to use and quote any of these resources, in whole or part, as long as you offer complete attribution to this page and our site.

Current topic: Free Background Checks Opening the Door For Danger February 2008 WINK News ran an article this week about the use of free background checks, a background screening methodology that is too often used in place of quality screening in the workplace. According to the article, free background checks are an acceptable means of screening individuals when the data comes "from publicly available government records and commercial sources." Unfortunately, the article says nothing about the many drawbacks of relying on this means of screening. Free background checks are tempting because they don't cost anything, but what most employers don't realize is that public records are poorly organized from state to state. Too often, disorganized or simply false information is found to provide skewed results. In some cases, perfectly innocent people are unable to get the job they want because free background checks so often provide faulty information. Worse yet, stories abound of dangerous employees with criminal histories slipping into the workplace because a cursory glance at public records didn't reveal their criminal history. Quality background screening isn't free, but it is thorough, reliable, and indispensable in today's workplace. With background screening employers and managers stand to benefit from tools like the social security check to make sure that documents provided are real, resume checks to verify resume information, criminal records checks on local, state, and nationwide levels, and employee drug testing for the pre-hiring process, and randomly to prevent inappropriate and dangerous behavior on the job. This offers a means of screening employees that provides trustworthy results, minimizing danger to the workplace, to clients, to other employees, and to the business as a whole when negligent hiring lawsuits become an issue. Call EBI to discuss designing a drug testing program to suit your company's needs.Our reliable drug testing programs will give you peace of mind about drug use in your workplace. Criminal records searches. Random drug testing. Reference checks. Everything for a comprehensive picture of your prospective employees. Call us at 800.324.7700 for details.

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