Background check terms can be hard to understand, but you need to know the basics in order to do and review background checks for your organization correctly. Here are 5 background screening terms you should know so you can make sure you are collecting information in line with federal, state, local, and business laws and rules.

Photo by Govinda Valbuena from Pexels Aesop’s Fable, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’. This is a story that any human resources manager will be eventually familiar with from personal experience. That bad experience after a promising employee fails to fit in, becomes disgruntled, and then things go pear shaped. Sour Grapes A hungry fox passed