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Financial Services and Healthcare rely on S2 Verify for Their Screening Needs

The financial service sector has some of the most stringent screening requirements in the United States. S2Verify is extremely qualified and knowledgeable in this field and can provide any business in the financial service sector with accurate and complete information on a prospective employee. Individuals who work in financial services have access to proprietary, personal information, and the finances of their clients. Companies must be assured they’ve hired the most trustworthy person available. This is where S2Verify comes into play. They draw on decades of experience to give the most reliable and accurate reports so companies can make the smartest decisions.

Healthcare employees have access to personal data of patients. This is extremely confidential information, and just like in the financial sector, employers must be able to 100% trust their employees to handle delicate matters like health and medication with the upmost respect and confidentiality.  To have the trust and repeat business from healthcare and financial companies speaks to the S2Verify advantage. Read about S2Verify,LLC – The Outsourcing of HR activities

Non-profits, education, contractors, retailers and staffing also rely on S2Verify to provide accurate information for their hiring and screening needs. S2Verify offers criminal background checks, employment and education verification, drug and health screenings and international screenings. Businesses have found they must use an accredited screener like S2Verify to be sure they are hiring honest, trustworthy employees and have protected themselves against any future risk.

Finding quality talent is often a challenge, and more and more companies have discovered a limited pool from which to choose a candidate. When they do select the best person, it is imperative they receive background information quickly so they can make an offer, before the candidate accepts another position. The S2Verify advantage gives clients speed, expertise, service, technology and solutions. S2Verify uses Automated Screening Intelligence (ASI) to automate and accelerate many tasks within the hiring process. Combined with speed, extensive knowledge and outstanding customer service, S2Verify is able to provide a stellar service in an industry where accuracy is vital. Learn more about S2Verify - Employees as Investments.

S2Verify LLC’s primary goal is to allow for a fast employee screening in order to dramatically reduce time to hire for their clients. S2Verify aims to make sure that that does not come at the cost of employee verification. With an approach that uses advanced artificial intelligence software to analyze data, their dependability ensures that any new employee is dependable as well.

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S2Verify on What Questions Can Be Asked of Applicants

A growing number of cities and states are putting limits on prospective employers asking about an applicant's criminal background. Many applications have the line item asking “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?”, and now that question may be forbidden. Some states, such as Minnesota, had initially forbidden privately held companies from asking this question, and soon after expanded that to public companies. States like California, New Jersey and Vermont have enacted similar rules, and cities such as Seattle and Buffalo also followed the same trend. More and more states and cities are expected to impose a ban on the question in the next few years.

The National Employment Law Project estimates that one in four Americans have some arrest or conviction record, usually for nonviolent offenses.  But, when applying for a job, checking ‘Yes’ to the crime conviction question almost uniformly excludes that applicant from an initial interview. The aim is not leave employers unaware of their workers' background, but to have the information come up later in the hiring process, after applicants have had a chance for an initial interview. The law is designed to end discrimination for persons convicted of a crime, but who have paid their debt to society and wish to start again. Read about S2Verify,LLC – The Employee as a measure of success for a business.

S2Verify, a leader in screenings for the workplace, is adept at knowing the ever changing rules and laws for each state. For example, for states where the question of criminal past has been eliminated, the prospective employer must first verify that the applicant is indeed qualified for the position, before an inquiry takes place. The constantly changing laws make it almost impossible for individual companies to abide by each process. In times like this, it’s imperative for companies to partner with a professional screening company to protect their assets and reputation. There are penalties associated with each violation, which could severely impact a company’s resources.

S2Verify LLC is an employment screening company, founded in 2009 by industry experts who recognized a need for a better way of doing business. S2Verify's leadership team has more than 25 years of experience in employment screening. Clients are amazed at their knowledge and expertise around local, state and federal laws and interaction with the courts. In fact, many clients rely on the team to help ensure they are following these laws. Thorough background checks include employment and education verification, drug testing, and criminal background checks. Find out more at Brandon Hess – Reliability is Essential.

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Brandon Hess, S2Verify & what can be learnt from working in background checking

S2Verify are a successful background checking firm, that have been helping employers screen potential candidates for over five years. They were included in the Inc 500 list, marking them one of the top performing businesses in regards to percentage revenue growth over a four-year period. As a full service company within a growing industry that brings in $2 billion annually, their future growth looks very positive as well. One of their employees, Brandon Hess, has helped steer their success in the last three years as marketing coordinator - he attributes their superior level of service, solutions, and support as vital to their role as market leaders.

Hess cites gaining employer’s trust as not only crucial for S2Verify, but crucial for any new employee embarking on a career with any given corporation. From the outset it is important that an employer can trust the employee to be honest throughout their tasks in the workplace and that has to be initiated at the hiring stage. Background checks are a vital step in the recruitment process because all too often they do flag up discrepancies in the candidate’s past. It is within the employer’s rights to be aware of anything that might hinder their job performance, or prove them to be untruthful throughout their application. For S2Verify, LLC maintenance is the key to business success and that means maintaining a good reputation by hiring honest employees.

S2Verify has earned its impressive 96.8% satisfaction rate from clients because of an awareness that accuracy and completeness are vital in their services. The employment screening service is automated to improve speed and reliability, using advanced technology and integrated electronic workflows in place of tedious, time-consuming manual tasks. Hess recommends all employers and employees to educate themselves on best industry practices in order to stay on top of current employment legislation so that neither party is caught unawares. At S2Verify they use trained law enforcement professionals with expertise in criminal justice in order to review every employment screening criminal record.

For S2Verify the rise of a very welcome gap in the market has proven key to their ongoing growth. As a NAPBS (National Association for Professional Background Screeners) accredited company, they reflect the values they instill in their clients throughout their own work. Their team of reliable, dedicated and experienced staff work hard to ensure that these are values that should be upheld in any company.

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S2Verify and Employees as an Investment

Keeping up with the legislation that surrounds corporate set ups is not necessarily an easy task for any company. Ignorance of any changes in the lawmaking could hold with employee or employer culpable of negligence. Upholding a commitment to ensuring workplace rights are protected should be a priority for any business that values its employees. Trust is at the heart of this on both sides of the contract. Employees should be safe in the knowledge that their best interests and rights are protected by their employers throughout management levels. All too often there are reports of these rights being overlooked.

There is however the other side to the story and it is usually easier for organizations to rely on outsourced services in order to ensure that they are also safe from fraud, or risks of issues with employees that may crop up further into employment. Aiming to stay up to date with continual changes in legislation, companies like S2Verify make sure that the often overlooked rights of the employer are also protected. S2Verify provides a thorough and cost effective background check on any potential new employees. With advanced technologies, they are able to provide their client companies assurance that hiring said new candidate is not going to be a risky investment.

Investing time, money and business knowledge into a new employee can provide very costly for any company if that person does not prove fit for the job in the long term. Performing background checks ensure that any experience or education is truthful at the time of hiring. S2Verify also perform criminal background checks, drug testing, employment eligibility and on-boarding support. A business that invests in its employees is a strong one, but that strength would be a waste if it did not have first a strategic recruitment process. Secure in the knowledge that they are hiring honest, trustworthy employees protects against any future risks.

Some corporations shy away from thorough background checks because it can prove costly and time inefficient. Effective talent acquisition often demands quick decision making and screenings can be detrimental. S2Verify are top in their field with speed and accuracy, along with prioritized customer service so that checks are comprehensive and easy to follow. Their commitment to protecting their clients against detrimental action is why their current client retention rate sits at 90%. Read more about how they keep ahead of the game at ‘S2Verify and Brandon Rivers: Keeping You Up To Speed’.

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S2Verify,LLC- Employing the right People to Maintain a Positive reputation

A company's success rests on so many delicate variables in the modern age. One of these is the employees that are hired to represent the business. A company's reputation can be permanently damaged should it employ the wrong member of staff, who may have a criminal background or a history of drug abuse. Human resource departments have long held the task of having to effectively screen applicants to ensure that they are employing the right people for the job.

The reality for them is that they often don't have the technological resources or manpower to be able to perform effective drug screenings and background checks on staff, and therefore many businesses fall into the trap of employing the wrong people. So what can be done? For many, the solution has been to turn to companies such as S2Verify to have this part of the recruitment process done for them. Professionals in this industry such as S2verify employ a highlyexperienced team of experts from relevant backgrounds such as law enforcement, secret service and human resources. Using their collective 25 years of experience, the team are able to performthe most extensive, accurate and fast background checking procedures the industry has ever seen.

S2Verify have also been able to utilize some of the most exciting technology available in the market.At the core of S2Verify's approach is a new search algorithm that uses advanced artificial intelligence software to quickly analyze millions of unique data sources to give you the mostcomplete information delivered in a format that is easy to understand and use in the decisionmaking process. We call this new service Actionable Screening Intelligence (ASI). This technology has allowed S2Verify to lead their market for a long time, and look set to do so in the near future.

They currently have a customer retention rate of 99%, which goes some way to emphasizing how effective their process has become, alongside a 96.7% satisfaction rate. S2verify recognizes a company's rights to having the necessary information about an employee, to ensure that their business can run to the best possible efficiency with the best possible staff. Streamlining the recruitment process is becoming an ever more valuable need for large businesses, and can ensure reduced rates of costs and staff turnover. NAPBS (National Association for Professional Background Screeners)

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S2Verify,LLC - Between Privacy and Protection

One of the fastest growing industries currently in the US s the that of the employment screening/background checking one, which aims to give employers the best available information and assurance they need to make the right decisions when employing staff. A growing number of businesses are demanding the services of companies such as market leader S2Verify, to confirm the information they have been provided by potential applicants to ensure they are employing the person they think they are. Such are companies are in demand because of their legal right to access to court records information such as criminal backgrounds and birth certificates.

S2Verify is accredited by the organisation NAPBS (National Association for Professional Background Screeners), whose executive director recently spoke out about the importance of maintaining approved companies rights to demand certain information about individuals. In it she emphasised how important confirming such information given by applicants is in ensuring the safety of employees, volunteers and local residents, whilst protecting a fundamental aspect of employer's rights. Should a business be presented false information or mislead into employing someone whose has masked certain aspects of their background, and it leads to an incidence, the whole reputation of a business could be shattered in a matter of days.

On the other side, many argue that a country should be weary about which businesses sensitive information should be given to co-operation, especially those with profit seeking motifs, as it could be misused and infringe of fundamental aspects of one's freedom. Naturally the privacy debate, one of the great discussion of our time has been drafted in. However, whilst this is of course an important conversation to be had in a case involving the privacy of one's personal information, the point remains that business, as well as people have certain rights, that in turn will benefit all of the companies' stakeholder. Being able to ensure employees are the people they claim to be is a right businesses should be able to demand, and as long as they can ensure the information is not used for malicious purposes, it may be hard to convince the courts to ban such information.

No wonder then companies like S2Verify have become so prominent in the US now, and carved a gap in an an overdue market. In the age of the Internet, where a company can have a reputation destroyed with the click of a mouse following a bad employment decision, the market will continue to grow, and companies like S2Verify will hope the US courts will appreciate their necessity.

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S2Verify - Employees as Investments

It is increasingly common for businesses to recognise their staff as an investment as much as it is to see them as tools for contributing to profit generation. Whilst adopting such a viewpoint does require caution in not dehumanising and objectifying members of staff- leading to potential alienation and dissatisfaction- it can also help employers understand and respect the value of their employees. Modern businesses recognise that employee satisfaction can not only lead to promoting a positive public image, but also in turn increase productivity and and commitment of its workforce.

Modern technology companies such as Google and Facebook are renowned for treating their employees as their most important commodity, offering them large interactive and stress free work environments. The success of companies like this act as good indicators as to the direct relation between happy and reliable staff and the growth of both profit and reputation. For these pillars of the modern business worlds, there is no doubt that employees truly are investments.

The other side of this is to ensure that whilst keeping employees satisfied, employing the right people in the first place is hugely important. Investing in a reliable and trustworthy member of staff ensures not only the happiness and harmony of the workplace, but also the safety of the other staff and the wider community. It can be notoriously difficult these days for HR departments to source the necessary information to ensure they are employing the correct people. Many companies are turning towards services approved by the NAPBS (National Association for Professional Background Screeners), who can provide accurate and legally obtained background checks on potential employees.

One such company is the fast growing and ever impressive S2Verify. They have seen huge growth in the past few years, partly because of companies recognising the ''employees as investments'' maxim, and also due in part to the experience and reputation of their marketing coordinator, Brandon Hess. He is a man who t recognises this as an important thing for all businesses to consider, and says the level of staff service and teamwork at S2Verify is a testament to this approach to business. Brandon has proved wildly successful in promoting this image and idea to the companies, and with a team of driven and efficient colleagues has built the company into the market leader of the employment screening world.

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S2 Verify - How to succeed in a competitive business environment

Brandon Hess has spearheaded what has been nothing short of a remarkable rise to success of the professional background-screening recruitment specialists S2Verify. AS the company's marketing coordinator, he has managed to outreach to a large and satisfied roster of important companies, who value the service the company provide immensely. And their customer satisfaction rate of 96.8% emphasises this. The market for companies taking the opportunity to outsource an integral part of the recruitment industry- the employment screening and background check stage- has grown hugely in the past couple of years. With employers ever more vulnerable to changing and complicated state and federal laws, more have turned to specialised companies to complete this vital and possibly success determining aspect to recruitment.

The market is thriving with companies looking to muscle their way into the market and grab a share of it for themselves. But what can distinguish the legitimate and reliable companies from those looking to make a fast back. Taking the example from the success and popularity of S2Verify can help us understand how. The experience management team have a combined 25 years of experience in screening and security, and have the know-how how to legally obtain the information every employer has the right to access.

What they have also done so successfully is refine their services to become fast and reliable, by recruiting a team of customer-orientated and reliable employees, who promote the message they are trying to get the very clients they work for endorse. As they say in their mission statement, what is important for them is reducing the time-to-hire process for their clients, meaning they can maximise business efficiency whilst not having to worry about the information and background about their employees.

There is no doubt that this is an industry still in its infancy, and will continue to thrive in the near future, with the complication of private organisations getting access to certain background records of individuals. What will determine who succeeds here will be the reputations of these company's such as S2Verify, who recognise the importance of employees as the most valuable commodity. By having a strong team of hard-working a loyal individuals, companies can ensure their reputations remain in tact whilst providing the fast and efficient services necessary to compete in the industry.

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Brandon Hess - Why is S2Verify Necessary?

A question that companies sometimes ask is why is it necessary to screen their employees? Shouldn’t they just place their trust in people and take what is said at face value? The answer is that this is very risky: the damage caused by an employee with a criminal record or a drug issue can be immense, not just in terms of their reliability and commitment to their work, but also towards the safety of others. It is simply unfair to hire someone with a substandard attitude towards their work, says Brandon Hess, the marketing coordinator for S2Verify, as this has consequences for every other employee within the company. If an employee is unable to cope with their workload or demonstrates an intermittent attendance this has negative consequences for the output of the company and department as a whole, reflecting badly on everyone. Furthermore, an employee with a hidden criminal record might behave in an extremely damaging way, or even steal valuable company data. This is why, Brandon Hess insists, screening is an absolutely necessary component of the hiring process.

Think about it this way. Would you buy a car without knowing that every part of it was in correct working order? Hiring in an employee is investing in an employee: it is placing the trust of the company and corporation in the fact that they will be able to perform their jobs. When this doesn’t prove to be the case it is problematic for everybody who is involved: more money will have to be spent on hiring another person for the same role, the employee in question will have to be dismissed and this can negatively affect company morale, and they might even have caused damage to the company’s reputation. But what Brandon Hess and S2Verify can do is to prevent this from becoming a problem by offering the most comprehensive employee screening that is on offer, and one that totally complies with federal regulations. As an employer, you have a right to know who you are hiring. Both Brandon Hess and S2Verify are one hundred percent behind the rights of employers to know what they are getting themselves into, to solve problems before they even arise.