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Spotlight: Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Mission statement is to provide background investigations with industry leading service through creative solutions - one client at a time. We do this by sticking to our Values with a focus on our Vision for the future.

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Ohio is for Misdemeanors

Duey and Justin set a start date and felt confident that they made the right choice in hiring Nancy. However, a few days later they received a monthly notification from Commercial Investigations Vigilant US service.

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Doug User, More Like Drug Abuser!

Duey opened Doug’s report and saw the unimaginable. Positive for opiates and marijuana. Unsure of what to do, he called Justin and Sue into his office.

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Spotlight: Coming Soon - CIware ATS

CIware ATS is integrated to work seamlessly with CIware 2.0 for a complete hiring and background investigation solution, or a standalone ATS for any company.

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Do You Know Who's Driving You?

Ride sharing has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it is often a fast and less expensive alternative to the standard taxi cab. While the convenience of a ride share can be very appealing, have you ever stopped to wonder who is behind the wheel of the vehicle? What measures have been taken to determine your driver is capable of keeping you safe?

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Due Diligence: Reverse Nepotism

Now that Duey was face to face with his father, Due knew this decision wouldn’t be easy nor without consequences. Due had given up his freedom in an act of selflessness so Duey could live a better a life. And that’s exactly what he was doing. Duey became the CEO of a successful company that was continuing to expand.

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Spotlight: New Drug Test Available

Since there has been a significant and alarming increase in incidences of Oxycodone and Hydrocodone use in recent years, as measured by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a more comprehensive drug test has become available.

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Negative-Dilute Results

With pre-employment drug testing, a negative-dilute specimen is a urine specimen that has a greater concentration of water than that of a normal urine specimen. Dilution is the process of reducing the concentration of drug or drug metabolites. This can be either purposeful or accidental.

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Liar Liar Will Not Hire

Wouldn’t it be great if we could spot someone who is lying with special glasses or have magical master skills like the special agents do on dramatic TV shows? Sometimes determining if someone is telling the truth can be hard to figure out, but there are certainly a lot of clues you can look for that can help make it easier.

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Spotlight: Fake Diplomas

In our last issue of CI Times, we discussed how roughly 10% of our education verifications come back adverse. It could be something as little as the subject writing their graduation date down wrong, to something as huge as a fake diploma. It’s graduation season and that means that a lot of HR Departments are going to be running and re-running education checks.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Perky

The thought that he was innocent is what kept him going each day. After being discharged, he set off to reunite with his son, and see what he had become.

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CIware 2.0 Super Tips

With most of our clients converted to the new software system, CIware 2.0, there has been a lot of learning going on! Our team has helped partners customize an experience that is tailored to their company’s specific needs. We have rounded up five of our favorite super tips to pass along. Hopefully you will enjoy these functionalities and suggest some of your own. We always value your feedback!

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Bored of Education

Education verifications are one of the most popular inquiries that we do! In fact, in 2016, Commercial Investigations completed over 5,000 education verifications with 502 marked adverse. Education is one of the top inquiries that garners adverse hits, which means we see some serious shenanigans in our education searches. People make mistakes typing in their graduation year, or enter a higher GPA than they actually received, embellishing on their major, or even lie about receiving a degree at all.

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No Records Found

As it turns out, Phillip was on to Rick, and all of the shady things he had done in order to advance his own career at the Center for Philanthropic Services. Lying about background checks and trying to hide the fact that Due was arrested and had a rap sheet as long as the Mississippi River topped his list.

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Spotlight: Guardian

Our newest team member, Guardian, is a character come to life from our logo. We introduced Guardian, symbol of all things bright and beautiful in compliance and security, on social media within the past month.

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A Day in the Life of a Background Investigation

The Initiating Investigator has already run my identifiers through Origin™, sweeping over 645 million criminal records to get top level hits through federal databases, anti-terrorist databases, the Dru Sjoden Sex Offender Registry, and The Death Master Search Index…oh, snap! Several John Smiths have come up!

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The Dawning of a New Day

A new day is dawning with CIware 2.0, and converting you to our new platform is so easy! We are there with you every step of the way and will work with you.

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New Year, New CI

A move will allow us to work smarter to make our company even better. Our new location offers an open concept, allowing us to work more cohesively.

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