When it comes to employment screening, we have proudly served business, industry, government and the military now for over 26 years.  It's no exaggeration to say we practically invented this industry.

When we started our business in January 1980, there were three national employment screening providers.  Over the years, two of those closed leaving APSCREEN as the oldest continuously operated employment screener in the United States.  In addition, in about 1992, an explosion occurred in the employment screening industry with the advent of a then emerging area of profound potential business liability commonly known as "negligent hiring."

Here we saw common workplace situations redefined and cultivated for potential litigation by shrewd and attentive plaintiff's counsel, not to mention that a new level of workplace violence incidents seemed to be occurring including shootings at the US post offices.  The need for determining employability by factoring in the personal histories of applicants was concretized and became the impetus for a new acronym called "Workplace Violence Prevention."

These two factors, along with more sophisticated computer systems and an increasing market misperception that an applicant's background information was easy to get, created a cottage industry within the information infrastructure.  When the new Consumer Credit Reporting Reform Act took effect in 1997, many providers were no longer in operation.  

Why should you use APSCREEN for employment screening?

As the oldest company still in this business, we are considered the standard upon which most other programs are based; due in part to the extensive writing, publishing and providing of expert testimony on related topics by our founder, Tom Lawson.  To date, APSCREEN has discovered over 200 firms that it can directly attribute use of our programs structures, forms, processes, and procedures.

This is what you get when you write the book on a particular industry, and as long as we are the ones who are being copied, that keeps us in first place - and we believe that makes us the only screener you would want to use.

APSCREEN also holds the top spot in compliance guidelines under the new Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the Fair Credit Report Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and is a veteran of compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.  Copies of those laws can be obtained by clicking here.

When you want to be the best, you have to accept only the best, and many times you have to invent it.  That's just what APSCREEN did.

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