Thursday, August 07, 2008

NAPBS forms European Group for screening

US Trade Association NAPBS (the National Association of Professional Background Screeners) is forming a European Group comprising a wide spectrum of members involved in the professional screening of pre-employment staff.

NAPBS was founded in 2003 in Morrisville, North Carolina to give the pre-employment screening industry the ability to effectively demonstrate its competence, reliability and willingness to adopt standards and promote Best Practice within the industry. In Europe, while Human Resources (HR) professionals have rapidly adopted pre-employment background screening, the absence of a Trade Association in this maturing market has meant that standards and Best Practice are not developed across all industries.

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