Talk:Background check

message: Would a background check routinely involve investigation of medical records? -- FirstPrinciples 10:15, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
:Not for most pre-employment background checks. However, it could become an issue in applying for health insurance for someone who is self-employed. I know this from personal experience. 205.217.105.2 15:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: When applying for an employment position through an agency, most employment agencies will tell you to change your resume to fit the job description, otherwise they wont submit you. As everyone needs a job, and relies on the employment agencies judgment (after all they are the highly paid experts!) they comply with the instruction. Companies know this too, but let it happen. Is this so the company knows it will then have leverage should it ever need or wish to terminate a persons services in the future without having justifiable grounds?  
Should the employment agency not be the entity held liable in such instances?
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thread_title: Question 2

message: Companies get paid alot of money for digging up our personal details. I think we should have a right to look at these files given to our banks, employers, etc. Is there anyplace we can get a free credit report, and not one that tries to trick us into signing up for some service for a "free report?"
--RAKO —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.166.190.192 (talk) 05:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you really get a free credit report?

message: Pre-employment screening should fit neatly under this title unless it would make the combined article too big. :) Dlohcierekim 22:14, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: The article seems to mostly be about background checks by employers. However, there are many background check websites for the common public to use on... anyone. Is there any information that can be included about this, and what (if any) actions can be taken against invasion of privacy a la public records? Gemini79 06:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info 

message: I see no reason to merge this article in any other suggested way.  The other article's length could be shortened and made more concisely focused on its related topic. Corporate fudiciary 14:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Merged. The article now needs cleanup for style and redundancy issues. theProject 01:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the proposed Merge 

message: The article now needs cleanup also for advertising... ("There are many companies... one of them is...")66.213.22.193 (talk) 21:17, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertising cleanup needed 

message: There is no empirical or statistical evidence I can locate that correlates between a person who has filed or declared bankruptcy and the same person "stealing from the company." If such evidence exists, and can be cited, it should be noted and changed back. Remember, for every Enron executive who "steals" from the company, there are thousands or millions of people who declare bankruptcy each year due to job loss or medical emergencies. Additionally, the original version would seem to suggest that the preponderance of bankrupt individuals are actually in a POSITION to steal from the company, ie. comptrollers, cfo's, accountants and such. Even in the widely known Enron scandal, and others like it, the actual "bankruptcy" of high level executives occurred AFTER the theft or misuse of shareholder dollars, and was used to (in some cases) attempt to shift assets or shield personal responsibility. I feel it is unfair to categorize a hard working auto worker with 30 good years of service to Ford Motor Company as a potential theft risk because he/she declared bankruptcy after the factory closed and he/she was unable to obtain employment. Or a greeter at Wal-Mart who has just rejoined the workforce following a million dollar medical issue that resulted in bankruptcy. Bankruptcy arises from many events, not all of which are criminal. Nor are all bankrupt persons presumed to be criminal. If anyone has evidence and citations to the contrary, I would love to see them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.26.75.251 (talk) 09:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding bankruptcy 

message: Probably 90% of people coming to read this are looking for a few websites that actually provide background checks for free.  The last paragraph of the article is great about mentioning a lot of websites that are moving to the ad model but there are absolutely no links and no references.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.237.190 (talk) 17:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is specifically not supposed to be a directory of web sites. Try Dmoz.org. - MrOllie (talk) 18:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This entry is useless 

message: I think that Trends in pre-employment screening should be merged here, it's barely been touched in two years and doesn't stand alone as a topic. Fences&Windows 21:31, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge

message: === Background Checks Systems - BCS ===
The National Background Check System phrase terminology is not to be confused with "Background Checks Systems".
* This private domain was registered in 2000 prior to the US Federal government using this wording terminology for their background check service.  
* BCS Background Screening, LLC is a private company that provides online background checks to business consumers. 
* The National Background Check System is part of the United States federal government and their fingerprint based background checks are cross-matched from the NCIC national crime information center. 
* National Background Check System's (NICS) is only available to firearms and gun dealers.
Background Checks Systems (BCS) receives quite a bit of email and phone traffic from anxious firearm buyers asking about delays in their background checks when in reality they should be contacting either the firearms dealer or the National Background Check System.
Joeg524 (talk) 01:31, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Background Check System - NICS 

message: The National Background Check System phrase terminology is not to be confused with "Background Checks Systems".
* This private domain was registered in 2000 prior to the US Federal government using this wording terminology for their background check service.  
* BCS Background Screening, LLC is a private company that provides online background checks to business consumers. 
* The National Background Check System is part of the United States federal government and their fingerprint based background checks are cross-matched from the NCIC national crime information center. 
* National Background Check System's (NICS) is only available to firearms and gun dealers.
Background Checks Systems (BCS) receives quite a bit of email and phone traffic from anxious firearm buyers asking about delays in their background checks when in reality they should be contacting either the firearms dealer or the National Background Check System.
Joeg524 (talk) 01:31, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background Checks Systems - BCS 

message: In the Possible information included section is talks about drug tests and polygraph tests but shouldn't the article make clear that that is generally an American thing?  Most countries do not invade their citizens' privacy by conducting drug tests except for a few specific jobs.  And in almost all parts of the world except for the USA the polygraph test is completely discredited and never considered to be reliable in employment or courts of law.  The land of the free indeed!--XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk |  Wikibooks talk 20:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible information included 

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message: Large parts of this article are written in an extremely biased (employer-friendly) way.
Passages like the following (just one of many examples) are inappropriate:
"Due to bad hire, employers lose in a multitude of ways: financial-wise, reputation-wise and time-wise. The research shows that as many as 77% of them have lost significant sums of money to carry out the re-recruitment. Moreover, the companies have suffered losses after hiring the dishonest employee due to his low competences (57%), lack of diligence at work (28%), spending on additional training (28%) or problems with attendance (15%) and employee theft (7%). The demand for pre-employment screenings is constantly growing among Polish entrepreneurs."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curb it (talk • contribs) 09:47, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: I add citations to the sentences missing citations. Moved stuff around to improve the organization and flow of the article. Removed the word "may" because the word may brings the credibility of the article down  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rvale045 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations  

message: Kleinerdiner (talk) 04:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 

message: why is the last section “phone number” with a list of relate to articles 2A01:4B00:8810:400:68DF:CB96:8769:429D (talk) 18:22, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phone number section? 

message: Also called background investigation, as the US Encyclopedia of Intelligence says. A friend checked the term in the book and announced me. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:40, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equivalent