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.

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Current topic: Background Screening Tackles Top Five Prospective Job Candidate Lies June 2007 Rismedia.com recently released the top 5 topics that are usually subject to dishonesty when a potential hire hands in a resume. With more than half of all applicants exaggerating or outright lying on their resumes and applications, it's easy to see why more and more smart business owners and managers are relying on quality background screening to keep underqualified or inappropriate employees out of the workforce. According to the article, more than "85% of large U.S. employers conduct background checks today, yet applicants continue to embellish and fib in an effort to land the next job. They fudge, dissemble and outright lie in new and unique ways on their resumes and background check applications." But thorough background screening, which is of much higher quality than a cheap background check, has steadily been growing in popularity as a means of catching employees who lie, whether it's the "top 5" or anything else on their resume. Number 1 is "exaggerating dates of past employment," a trick easily found out when past employers are called to verify employment. This is also a benefit not offered by cheap background checks, and is yet another perk of following up on quality pre-employment screening. The 2nd and 3rd in the top 5 are "inflating salary history and/or title held," which is also easily verified by contacting previous employers, and if they are not comfortable revealing salary details, a W-2 can confirm. "Concealing a criminal record," the 4th most likely topic where a potential employee will be dishonest, is also very dangerous problem. Unknowingly hiring anyone with a criminal record could potentially put employees, managers, and even clients in danger. Unfortunately a cheap background check will only do a quick search of public records, but background screening services include criminal records search on a local, state, and national level, as well as a social security trace to make sure your new hire is who he/she says they are. And the 5th is, by all means, the most costly lie that any employer will encounter in a new hire: "hiding a drug habit." Employees who abuse drugs cost billions a year in lowered productivity, lowered morale, absenteeism, turnover, damage to property, injuries to themselves or others, and resulting insurance claims. Keeping employees who abuse drugs out of the workplace can be perhaps the smartest and most cost-effective move that any employer can make. However, a single pre-employment drug test simply isn't enough. It's only with the instituting of random drug testing has drug abuse in the workplace been shown to decrease dramatically. And, once again, this is where quality background screening outshines the cheap background check when it comes to safeguarding the workplace environment, and keeping underqualified or dangerous employees off the job. 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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