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: Identity Theft: How Poor Quality Background Checks Are Putting You At Risk While background screening services are becoming more and more popular in the business world, errors are becoming more and more common. In the most recent headlines, would-be employees are often shocked to find that they couldn’t get the job they wanted because of a long list of criminal activity that was mistakenly attributed to them. So why is this so important? Because, in those same headlines each would-be employee has been urged to sue. According to consumer right’s advocates, if "defamation" on the part of a background screening company leads someone to lose a job, you could be liable. There are two ways that you can be at risk for this kind of lawsuit. First, you can pay for a cheap internet background check and get faulty information, which is easy in a field where there are no real industry standards. And second, that cheap background check can turn up false information based on someone’s identity theft. Think it can’t happen to you? Well, today’s recent studies show that 85% of identity theft victims don’t discover what has happened to them until they fail to get a job or credit card. And, with 13 people suffering from identity theft every minute(!) in this country, your odds of finding false information with a cheap background check are actually very high. If a would-be employee discovers that your faulty background check led them to lose a job, they can sue you for not meeting federal background screening guidelines. So how do you protect yourself? Work with a reputable firm that does thorough and concise background screening. At EBI this kind of disaster is prevented because EBI incorporates a social security number trace and verification for your applicants. This ensures that a social security number trace actually works and that that SSN really belongs to your client--it’s checked against records of the deceased, aliases, maiden names, and more. Thus, if a disgruntled would-be employee wants to see their pre-employment background screening, you can rest assured that you’ve followed all the rules. By following these guidelines, as mandated by law, EBI can help you to protect yourself, your company, and would-be employees from the dangers of identity theft. 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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