
E-Signatures
Bring your Background Check Process into the 21st Century
How much paper does your background check process require? If your background checks still start with a paper consent form, it’s time for a 21st century applicant tracking system.
Since 2000, The Electronics Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act has made e-signatures legal for background check consent. While it’s taken some time for institutions to get comfortable with the idea, today’s most institutions accept e-signature background check consent forms.
The Background Check is Faster with E-Signature
Snail mail and faxes? It’s 2009! E-signatures save numerous steps and delays by enabling candidates to consent to a background check online. The applicant tracking system automates the process, guiding the candidate to click and consent to the background check. With the e-signature, the applicant tracking system can electronically forward the consent to gather records. Human resource management joins every other industry in the benefits of e-business.
What’s Better Than “Fast”?... “Cheap.”
Filing, storing, and faxing thousands of consent forms each year doesn’t come without a price tag. E-signatures remove tangible costs from the background check process—on top of the productivity savings that applicant tracking systems deliver for HR managers.
Note that The National Association of Professional Background Screeners recommends that candidates be well informed of what they are e-consenting to. Turn to a leading applicant tracking system like Abso Talent Edition to ensure the process follows good human resource management guidelines.
The “Green” Background Check
If you aren’t using all that paper, you are saving all those trees. E-signatures for background checks reduce paper use. In fact, an applicant tracking system saves trees throughout the hiring process by storing candidate information electronically. No thick, paper file folders.
If your human resource management strategy isn’t using e-signatures, you’re missing an opportunity to move faster and reduce costs in your hiring process.
Contact Abso to learn more about moving into the 21st century.