GIS' National Criminal Database Reaches 400 Million Records
The national criminal database service from GIS and sister company backgroundchecks.com has reached 400 million records. Both companies are leading providers of background screening services.
According to Craig Kessler, president of backgroundchecks.com, the size of a national criminal database is significant.
“This is a huge achievement for backgroundchecks.com,” said Kessler. “Size is the major differentiator among criminal database providers. The scope of the search broadens with each additional record and source that becomes available. This in turn allows better criminal reporting accuracy and, at 400 million records, clients – whether they are employers, tenant screeners or volunteer organizations —are recognizing the value inherent in this database.”
The growth of the national criminal database comes as no surprise. It has been growing steadily in years past thanks to a dedicated source acquisition and data aggregation team within the company which has gathered a large number and variety of sources. The source list includes sources from all levels: international (such as global threat lists) national, state (such as sex offender registries) and county.
Through the national criminal database, clients can perform ongoing criminal monitoring on previously-checked individuals in addition to running the initial investigation. This alerts clients to new crimes that may be associated with subjects previously run through the national criminal database.
GIS Wins Supplier Innovation Award in U.S. Postal Service Supplier Performance Awards
GIS has been selected by the U.S. Postal Service as a winner in its 2009 U.S. Postal Service Supplier Performance Awards program.
GIS was notified on April 2 that it was a winner in the Supplier Innovation Awards category. The award recognizes Postal Service contractors for superior supply chain performance.
As the national supplier of pre-employment screenings, GIS was chosen from a pool of contractors nominated by Postal Service professionals. This pool was selected from among the more than 20,000 vendors that service the Post Office.
“Every employee at GIS is constantly striving towards providing our clients with services that exceed the clients’ expectations,” said Raymond Conrad, owner and CEO of GIS. “This award belongs to everyone at the company. Each of them is vital in providing high quality work to all of our clients.”
Conrad accepted the award on behalf of GIS at the award ceremony on April 26, 2010, where a total of 13 Postal Service suppliers were honored. GIS was one of two companies honored for Supplier Innovation.
GIS has been providing background screenings to the U.S. Postal Service since 2002.
GIS Announces Release of Pangea Talent Acquisition Suite
The suite of products is designed to help corporations of all sizes and industries run a successful recruiting and hiring program. The suite is highly configurable and includes an applicant entry portal, recruiting and hiring tools a robust reporting dashboard and an easy to use administration dashboard.
“GIS endeavors to provide a full-service solution to all of our clients,” said owner and CEO, Ray Conrad. “By adding the Pangea Talent Acquisition Suite to our services, we can supply our clients with one source to hire optimal talent. As one of the only background screening companies that can offer every service from one platform rather than integrating with other partners to do so, GIS continues to lead the industry in innovation and product offerings.”
Built to allow GIS’ clients flexibility within the platform, the Pangea Talent Acquisition Suite allows for the use of a variety of tools and processes that can be configured based on their different positions or job classes. Each can be routed to its own online application with specific recruiting and hiring process actions, tasks, routing and email notifications and background screening packages.
In addition to the services built into the product, the Pangea Talent Acquisition Suite is available with additional Pangea pre-integrated components including:
- Skill, behavioral and personality assessments;
- Tax credit screening and management with expertise in programs such as WOTC and the HIRE Act;
- Background screening solutions, and
- Onboarding, including electronic I-9 and EEV solutions.
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