HR-XML 3.0 Standards, 2009 September 23.
Menu: [ Home | Guidelines | BODs | Nouns | Global elements | WSDL | Packages | Code Lists | Master Index ]
Trace back: » ch23 | ch23s03 | ch25 | ch25s04 | ch26 »
Table of Contents
The Screening Report noun enables the communication of data fulfilling or relating to an employment screening order.
Customers of background checking services have varying requirements. Many customers want to know whether any adverse information was found, but might not want to have any other results returned to them or stored on their computer systems. Other customers may want the screening firm to return complete or partial results. The screening service provider and its customer usually agree in advance on the appropriate type and level of reporting detail. The following are common scenarios:
A customer might want to be notified only that a screening has been completed and alerted only if any adverse information is found or if information of a particular type or severity is discovered. No report details are returned to the customer’s computer systems. The customer might receive merely an Internet address where he or she can securely login to review the adverse information that was discovered.
A customer might agree on criteria or a scoring system for the screening service to apply in evaluating candidates. In some cases, the customer might not receive any information other than the identification of the criteria or score resulting in the disqualification of an applicant. (Note that whether or not the full results are returned to the customer, having background check results available in a standard, discretely fielded format is valuable to the service provider in automating the scoring of results).
In some cases, customers may want partial information returned from a screening regardless of whether adverse results are found. For example, employers of licensed professionals may have legal or fiduciary responsibilities for tracking the status and expiration dates of licenses (as well as any sanctions or disciplinary actions by professional boards). A candidate’s verified educational history also may be valuable for an employer to capture and retain because such information may be useful to search or refer to in matching employees to assignments.
The customer’s industry or operational requirements may warrant the return of full screening results for evaluation by the customer.
Examples of events that could trigger the collaboration, include:
Screening Complete. Screenings can be ordered within a "package" or individually (so-called "a la carte" screenings). Screenings within a package may be individually completed and reported or they can be aggregated and fulfilled as a package.
Screening Status Required. The time required to fulfill some screenings is quite predictable while others may require days or weeks. Recruiters and HR professionals may need to query the status of screening reports in managing resource requirements and deadlines.