Comprehensive background checks for employment can help increase productivity, reduce costs, and preserve your corporate reputation.
Checks are, says today’s guest, “an absolutely essential element in the hiring process in order to maintain a safe work environment“. “Background screening“, he says “empowers employers by providing them with the knowledge they need to make critical hiring decisions“.
In HRchat 323, we consider the role of background checks when sourcing top talent. Listen too, as we explore how Covid and WFH placed new emphasis on the need to find ways to check candidates without access to traditional in-person screening methods. My guest this time is Michael Boyce, Director of Business Growth & Marketing at Mintz Global Screening.
Listen to get Michael’s answers to such questions as:
- Why does Mintz believe background checks are vital to the management of the corporate brand and what would you say to those that say it’s a bit too ‘big brother’?
- Do references still matter, why can’t HR managers just do a criminal check instead? Are references just full of positive statements from ‘good references’?
- What do you believe the consequences are of avoiding reference checks altogether?
- What are the main market and economic influences that impact whether people conduct reference checks? How has Covid-19 impacted Mintz?
- Do you believe the purpose of reference checking changed and/or have checks become more important due to new regulatory measures?
- What does the market look like at the moment? How much more important is it right now to have a resume that stands out?
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Matt Charney, new Head of Industry and Product Marketing at SmartRecruiters and partner in RecruitingDaily is the guest in episode 286.
Listen as Matt shares tips for HR leaders looking to hire contingent workers. Matt also offers his ideas about what hiring gig workers says about a brand and he talks about the improvements made to the talent tech stack over the past year to ensure the long-term success of remote hiring.
Matt is one of the top experts in the world when it comes to talent and technology. He has extensive expertise within the recruiting and HR technology industries, with over 15 years of marketing leadership experience at global talent organizations such as Monster Worldwide, Cornerstone OnDemand, Talemetry and the Allegis Group.
At SmartRecruiters, Matt works closely with product and business leadership to deliver compelling core messaging, packaging, pricing and go-to-market campaigns for SmartRecruiters’ core platform, point solutions and marketplace programs. Matt is also a partner in RecruitingDaily, where he served as Executive Editor.
More About Matt Charney
Matt has been recognized as one of the top HR Technology influencers by publications such as LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Forbes, the Huffington Post and HR Magazine, and was recognized by the Society of Human Resources Management as an “HR Gamechanger” for his contributions to talent technology.
He was also named by WordPress as one of the world’s top business bloggers; an in-demand speaker, Charney has keynoted dozens of industry conferences and events all over the world, including South by Southwest Interactive, RecFest, Collision, SHRM Annual Conference, Unleash and the HR Technology Conference, and, of course, six Hiring Success conferences in both the US and Europe).
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