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Human Resource Management Strategies Are Essential to Demonstrating HR Value

Despite the complexity of human resource management, many HR organizations don’t have a strategy that guides their performance.

A recent article in Workforce Management reports a strong correlation between having a documented human resource management strategy and perception that HR is an important contributor to corporate success. In simple terms—having a human resource management strategy is important in getting the CEO to think HR is a worthy partner.

The study also reports that human resource management teams with strategies incur lower costs and require fewer HR managers to do the work. Human resources management strategies help HR on their eternal quest to decrease expenses and do more with less.

Human Resource Management Strategy — Start at the Beginning

From the criminal background check to employee retention plans, a human resources management strategy must encompass interdependent processes. Taking stock of the current system is the first step in identifying improvement areas, setting priorities, and establishing measurable goals.

Take recruiting and hiring. Documenting your hiring process can reveal opportunities to make strategic improvements.

Are you acquiring and the right candidates quickly?
Are your background check and employment screening tests maximizing efficiency and minimizing risk?
Do you communicate with hiring managers like a partner?
Does your onboarding system help candidates become productive quickly?
Are you using an applicant tracking system to streamline the process?

Define your Human Resources Management Strategy

Once you know how well your current human resource management system is functioning, you can define strategies to elevate human resources management performance. From hiring processes to employee retention plans, your human resource management strategy should encompass your end-to-end systems and how they contribute to mitigating corporate risk, creating competitive advantage, and reducing costs.

Having a human resources management strategy in place is the difference between being a reactive organization and a true, integral partner.

Learn more about how the Abso applicant tracking system and talent management solution can streamline HR processes to support your human resources management system.

Reduce costs and risk while finding the best talent more quickly—contact Abso today.

Strategies that Demonstrate HR Value

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Workforce success is about choosing talent that fits both job and company. Choosing the right talent is a complex task in today’s market – and no one vendor has all the answers. Knowing whom you hire before they officially become an employee lets you mitigate the potential risk of a bad hire.

Employee Screening and Candidate solutions help ensure that your organization’s HR efforts are working toward a common goal, allowing you to take your business success to a whole new level. With employee screening and candidate management solutions from Abso, you’ll streamline and automate your HR processes, give yourself a single view of all candidates and ensure workforce safety and compliance.

Accuracy, Compliance, Turnaround Time and Personal service - that’s the Abso difference.

Uncompromising Accuracy and Compliance: Accurate background searches depend on a combination of technology and professional-level expertise. Our team of local experts blend both to ensure you receive accurate, compliant employment background screening results. Our team delivers only see data straight from the source.

Abso is a founding member of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS). Founded in 2003 as a non-profit trade association, NAPBS represents the interests of companies offering employment and background screening services. We hold seats on key committees, including the government affairs committee, to advocate for the screening industry with both federal and state authorities. We track compliance legislation nationally and keep you informed of relevant changes.

Turnaround Time: Abso solutions deliver the information hiring managers need to make informed hiring decisions quickly. Solutions built on the latest, secure web technologies, our penchant for leveraging technology delivers an advantage in the delivery of records.

Personal Service: Regardless of the size of the businesses, all Abso customers are assigned a dedicated Account Manager who delivers direct, personal service. By building an understanding of how our customers work, Abso Account Managers can customize our solutions to deliver the right results while saving our customers time, money, and hassle. Over 3,500 customers, from Fortune 100 firms to small businesses, know they will continually receive the personal service and quality data that is essential to managing their HR responsibilities legally and cost effectively.

At Abso We are Focused on Your Workforce Success

We understand that today’s HR departments need to get more done with fewer resources. Our solutions deliver integrated tools, information, and personal support that help HR managers work smarter—improving efficiency, hiring quality, and ultimately, time to hire. Through internal development and strategic vendor relationships, we continue to deliver fully compliant and innovative solutions that enhance productivity and facilitate business decisions.

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Reduce Risks with Accurate, Compliant Background Checks

Fibs, omissions, and lies are all too common on resumes. Do you really know who you are hiring? Reduce the risk of a bad hire—and a negligence lawsuit— with accurate, compliant background checks. Through a combination of technology and expert personal service, Abso quickly and affordably delivers the criminal records, identity, health, and employee drug testing you need to make informed decisions and reduce workplace risk. Plus, Abso Screening Edition^TM enables human resources to streamline the hiring process with integrated tools that make ordering background checks and tracking applicant data fast and easy.

Eliminate Doubt with Background Checks

Know who you are hiring before you expose your company to risk. Abso provides over 300 background check options including:

• Criminal records check

• Civil litigation check

• SSN identity and US employment eligibility e-verify

• Employment, education, credential, and credit verification

• Alcohol and drug screening

• Occupational health screening

Accurate, Compliant Employment Background Screening

An inaccurate background check is as dangerous as not running one at all. False reports lead to embarrassment (at best) or lawsuits, while incomplete reports expose your company to significant risk on the job. As a founding member of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners, Abso has been a leading provider of reliable background checks for nearly a decade. Our team of local experts “hand-pull” criminal court records and tap into local, state, and national databases to quickly deliver complete background search results only from proven, reliable, and compliant sources. To ensure defensible neutrality and ease the burden on staff when issues arise in background checks, consider our managed adjudication services and managed adverse action services.

Fast, Affordable Background Check Options

Abso combines leading-edge applicant tracking and background check software to deliver background checks affordably—and fast. With a menu of background check services, you choose only what you need. More about our comprehensive background and drug screening services.

Personal Service

Every Abso client is assigned a dedicated Account Manager who works to understand your business and the hiring regulations for your geographic region and industry. Your account manager provides another layer of vigilance to ensure compliance to hiring regulations while simultaneously presenting customized solutions that help you use only the background checks and drug screening tests you need, saving you time and money. Learn more about personal service.

Streamline Background Screening Workflow—Anytime, Anywhere

Abso web-based software delivers the background check results your team needs, when and where you need them. With online ease and flexibility, human resources managers can order, review, and organize background check information quickly and easily. Our technology streamlines the background screening workflow while building in compliance safety checks along the way. Learn more about Abso HR technology.

Streamline Talent Management

Human Resources Efficiency At Its Best

Today’s human resources managers are working hard to find and keep the best talent. Yet increasingly, HR has to do more with less, making efficiency more important than ever. Abso talent management software streamlines many human resources management tasks, automating manual steps that slow HR managers down. Abso’s intuitive Talent Edition interface is HR’s portal into all the tools to acquire, screen, assess, and onboard candidates quickly and easily. Applicant tracking, background checks, skills assessment tests, and more—tools and information work together to help HR make informed decisions faster.

Talent Edition^TM Puts Information at Your Team’s Fingertips

Abso talent management software puts the information HR managers need—to gather candidates, organize screening data, and evaluate the workforce—at their fingertips. Plus, collaboration features help HR and business group hiring managers improve internal communication for more competitive workforce development. Learn more about Talent Edition features.

Compliance Built In

At Abso, we continually monitor hiring legislation, so we can keep our customers informed and our products up to date. Compliance is built right in to our technology and service processes.

Customer Service To Guide the Way

Technology’s great. But the hiring process requires a more personal touch than technology alone can deliver. That’s why each of our customers is assigned a dedicated account manager. We learn your business and provide proactive support every step of the way so you can manage the workforce and with less cost.

Web-based Flexibility and Ease

Abso talent management technology is web-based, enabling HR and the hiring team to work securely when and where they need to. Our talent management tools easily integrate with existing HR software systems for true efficiency. What's more, with Abso software as a service, you don’t have to worry about installations, maintenance, compatibility, or overhead.

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Screening Edition™ Employee background screening delivers the right employee to your organization.	Talent Edition™ Recruitment and applicant tracking software that streamlines your workflow.	Management Tools Integrated tools include e-signatures, managed adjudication, and applicant self-service.
Background Screening Employment screening is critical to avoid negligent hiring suits against your company.	Employee Drug and Alcohol Testing Solutions to fit your company’s needs – whether it is pre-employment, DOT, or have DQF requirements.	Employee Lifecycle Solutions Tools that make annual screening and DQF management easier and more compliant.
Background Screening Compliance Software built to ensure compliance with the FCRA, the FACT Act, and more.	Assessments Pre- or post- employment to evaluate performance potential in a variety of objective, compliant tests.	Personal Service Every client is assigned a dedicated Account Manager who provides consistent, one-on-one communication.

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