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When conducting background checks(Click here), knowing if a potential employee has a criminal record is not the only thing businesses are looking for. In many cases an employer needs to know if the applicant has the proper education and other credentials necessary to perform the job in question. According to a recent press release one provider of employee screening is hoping to help businesses keep better track of such information.

Employment Screening Resources (ESR) announced this week that they have updated their Continual License Verification (CLV) service. This part of the company alerts employers such as hospitals when a workers professional license is nearing its expiration date. The program used to send out these notices, however, can only provide employers information on workers that they originally verified the license on. This is because ESR has to have the expiration date on record, which is taken care of during the initial background check.

Employers utilizing this service will be sent a link to a secure web page, when the worker in question’s license is near expiration. From this page the user can then indicate if the employee will be obtaining re-verification or if it is not necessary because that individual no longer works for the company. Without such a system, trying to keep track of an office full of workers’ professional certifications can be difficult.

“For workers that require a professional license, it is no longer sufficient to merely verify the license once at the start of employment,” said ESR’s president Lester S. Rosen in press release. “Employers need solutions that protect them during the entire time the person is employed. For hospitals and other employers that need to ensure that workers maintain their licenses in good standing, this is a unique solution that provides a system to manage and audit the process.”

ESR developed this software originally for hospitals. Due to stringent requirements put on these employers by the Joint Commission on Accreditation, only workers who have undergone primary source verifications can fill positions that require professional licenses or certification.

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