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CIO Bulletin
A company’s investment in a new employee is significant. They hope to stay with the company for a long time and continue to provide excellent work that favors the bottom line. Unfortunately, bad hires do happen.
Conducting background verification before making employment offers to candidates can help you avoid disastrous hiring. It will expose any information the person withheld through the interview process, ensuring that your organization only invests in trustworthy individuals.
One of the best Pre-employment screening companies to choose services from is Cisive. Founded in 1977, Cisive is a leading global background screening provider that provides industry-specific compliance services and high-value employment background checks to highly regulated, risk-sensitive industries. Cisive has long-term relationships with a varied base of clients across financial services, healthcare, transportation, and other regulated industries.
Cisive’s solutions deliver compliant employment intelligence to employers who are incredibly averse to employee-related risks and operate in highly regulated industries.
With Cisive, your business will not only gain a background screening provider, but a true partnership: a firm that stands by its work, protects its clients and provides the consultation and guidance world-class organizations seek.
The following excerpts are from a conversation with James Owens, CEO, and President of Cisive
Q. How do you ensure the accuracy of background checks?
We maintain a 99.9993% accuracy rate due to our attention to detail at every level. Cisive reports go through up to five levels of verification before reaching our clients. For example, many companies in our industry merely check one county repository when a client requests a criminal background check. However, felony records are maintained in a separate repository in more than 50% of the 3,007 counties in the U.S.
Cisive always conducts a multiple-repository search, including a third level when municipal courts are appropriate. An investigative audit confirms record accuracy with a review for legal dissemination under state, federal, and international law. Our multilevel approach results in a high degree of confidence and assurance for our clients that they have screened the right candidate and minimized liability exposure.
Q. What is the foundation of your business model?
First, Cisive doesn’t want to grow for the sake of being a big company. We genuinely want to be the best background screening provider for our clients, so we do things right from the start. We’ve built quality solutions that meet our clients’ unique needs in highly regulated sectors. We’re a partner for our clients rather than a hurdle.
Secondly, a company’s most important asset is its people, and Cisive is no exception. When recruiting new talent, we focus on attracting the best people in the industry. We accomplish this by aligning our candidates with our core values of HEART: honesty, excellence, accountability, respect, and teamwork. HEART represents the Cisive approach to business and has been instrumental in cultivating a collaborative culture where employees can thrive. It has been key to our success, which is why these qualities are ingrained in every aspect of our company, beginning with the recruitment process.
Q. How has technology supported you invariably?
We’ve leveraged technology over the years to develop efficient, high-quality solutions for our clients. For instance, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, we quickly developed pandemic-specific products, such as ACCESS19, to keep our clients’ workplaces as safe as possible. Cisive pivoted to a work-from-home environment for our employees, utilizing online meeting platforms and new at-home systems to thrive in the new normal with little disruption for our clients.
Cisive also recently joined 14 other leading enterprise multinational labor market organizations to launch the Velocity Network Foundation (VNF). VNF is a collaborative, vendor-neutral, nonprofit organization established to define, deploy, and champion the Velocity Network: a globally accessible, trustworthy “Internet of Careers” powered by innovative blockchain technology in response to growing data privacy security and market pressures.
As Artificial Intelligence in HR gets more intelligent and more focused on solving specific problems, we expect to see even further capabilities: smart matching of individuals and career opportunities, predictive analytics, and smart people development recommendations.
Q. Why should companies opt for Cisive over others?
For over four decades, Cisive has focused on helping businesses in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and transportation by implementing an efficient and compliant employment screening program. At Cisive, we are not just a vendor but a true business partner for our clients and see ourselves as an extension of their HR team. We approach each client by aligning our objectives to theirs in developing solutions built for compliance but tailored for the client’s unique business model and structure.
With Cisive, you will not only get a background screening partner, but a lifelong partner—a company that stands by its work, protects its clients, and provides the consultation and guidance world-class organizations are looking for. For these reasons, many of our clients have been with us for over 30 years. Cisive’s quality of service, robust reporting, cost-effectiveness, and state-of-the-art—100% configurable, proprietary technology sets us apart from all others in the industry.
Talk more about your suite of executive intelligence solutions.
The Cisive executive intelligence division delivers actionable, targeted research to help our clients win competitive advantages. From due diligence to litigation support, we have the tools and expertise to provide information to support traditional business transactions and help our clients confidently explore new opportunities in the global marketplace.
Cisive offers Pre-investment due diligence, implementing and managing global due diligence, fraud detection, and screening programs to ensure clients comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Cisive also provides post-investment due diligence, monitoring risks, and maintaining a competitive advantage after a business transaction or acquisition is concluded. We can also apply intelligent technology and our global capabilities for litigation support, business and financial misconduct investigations, international asset tracing, and business-related analysis.
Q. What are the types of criminal checks? Which one is more comprehensive
Cisive offers a host of criminal background check options. Our clients can construct packages best suited to the needs of their organization from any of the following, including:
Most clients utilize the state and country criminal history check, which covers county and statewide felony and misdemeanor records. Continuous Criminal Monitoring is also on the rise, allowing organizations to receive real-time arrest record monitoring on an ongoing basis. This helps employers ensure their employees in the workplace, and customers receiving in-home or delivery services, remain as safe as possible.
Q. What measures do you take to ensure client compliance and risk mitigation?
Cisive assists our clients in developing responsible hiring practices as recommended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and by following the guidelines of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and other global regulations.
We incorporate statutory and regulatory considerations, benchmarking, best practices, company culture, and hiring risk levels to ensure the best background screening program in the industry. Whether for healthcare compliance, financial service compliance, or general HR compliance, Cisive has never had a judgment filed against it for violations of the FCRA or any other consumer reporting statute or regulation. Our driving mission is to keep our clients out of harm’s way.
Cisive is also accredited by the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA). Our team members hold PBSA Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) certifications, ASIS CPP (Certified Protection Professional), and PCI designations. They are also active in the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA), International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), InfraGard National Members Alliance, and Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE). We are Swiss Safe Harbor Certified — one of the first background companies to become EU-U.S. Privacy Shield certified.
Helping Cisive provide impeccable pre-employment background checks
James Owens is the CEO and President of Cisive. Mr. Owens has transformed Cisive into an HR technology-enabled services company with a dual focus on HR onboarding and background screening at industry-leading quality levels. Before joining Cisive, Mr. Owens was a senior architect at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young (CGEY). He designed and implemented large-scale systems, including several innovative web-based applications.
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