Automated system for rating employee screening practices and corporate management

Abstract

A novel automated system develops a uniform rating of the employment screening practices of organizations/industry entities (IEs) of a given industry. The uniform rating is based upon objective employee screening practices during pre-employment screening. Industry entities are allowed to view employee screening parameters of their own records, add information and update the values of these employee screening parameters. These records are also made available to all users. The system creates weighting factors based upon the relative importance of the selected employee screening parameters and creates the rating based upon a combination of the weighted selected records. This rating reflects an estimate of the completeness, or thoroughness of the employment screening practices which has a direct effect upon the quality of the employees hired and ultimately upon the quality of the products produced by these employees or the services rendered.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for providing information regarding employee screening practices of industry entities (IEs) comprising:
 IE storage adapted to be remotely accessible and to store values of a plurality of screening practices of the IEs;   parameter storage having a list of screening practices to be used to determine a rating for a selected industry;   weighting factor storage adapted to store weighting factors that each correspond to a selected screening practices indicating their relative impact upon a rating;   a controller coupled to the IE storage, the parameter storage, the weighting factor storage adapted to:
 acquire the selected screening practices from the parameter storage; 
 acquire values of the selected screening practices from IE storage; 
 acquire corresponding weighting parameters from the weighting factor storage; 
 create a rating equation for the selected industry employing from the selected screening practices and their corresponding weighting factors; 
 create a rating for at least one IE of the selected industry having values for the selected screening practices by applying the rating equation to the acquired values for each IE. 
   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising a plurality of IE communication devices adapted to communicate between the IE storage and each IE, wherein each IE communication device is adapted to:
 request information from the IE storage; 
 input missing values for the screening practices relating to itself into the IE storage; and 
 update existing values for the screening practices relating to itself in the IE storage. 
 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising a system administrator that interfaces with the controller to select screening practices that will be used in rating each IE of a given industry. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 3  wherein an indication of the selected screening practices is stored in the parameter storage. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4  wherein the screening practices comprise at least one of:
 verification of past employment, verification of background, and drug screening tests. 
 
     
     
         6 . A system for creating a rating of the employee screening practices of industry entities (IEs) comprising:
 IE storage of having prestored screening practices that have values indicating a status of each screening practice;   weighting factor storage having prestored weighting factors for at least one of the screening practices;   a controller which creates a rating based upon the values of the screening practices and the weighting factors of each screening practice.   
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 6  wherein the weighting factor indicates the relative impact of the selected screening practice. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 6  wherein the rating is based upon a combination of the screening practices multiplied by their corresponding weighting factors. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 6  wherein the values in the IE storage are populated by the IEs interactively using IE communication devices. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 6  wherein the selected screening practices are at least one of the group consisting of: verification of past employment, verification of background, and drug screening test results. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the selected screening practices relating to verification of past employment further comprise at least one of the group consisting of: employment eligibility (I9) verification, employment history verification, education/licenses/credentials verification, reference check, and social security verification. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the selected screening practices relating to verification of background further comprise at least one of the group consisting of: state criminal background check, federal criminal background check, civil lawsuit check, credit history check, motor vehicle report, child abuse check, elder abuse check, national sex offender check, excluded parties list system (EPLS) check, list of excluded individuals/entities (LEIE) check, and tuberculosis testing. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the selected screening practices relating to verification of drug screening test results further comprise at least one of the group consisting of: pre-employment drug testing, post-injury drug testing, random drug testing, and reasonable suspicion drug testing. 
     
     
         14 . A method of rating industry entities (IEs) in a given industry comprising the steps of:
 selecting screening practices that are relevant to the industry;   determining a relative weighting factor corresponding to at least one of the selected screening practices based upon its expected impact upon the employee screening practice;   providing an automated system to allow the IEs to enter values for the selected screening practices relating to itself; and   calculating ratings from a combination of the values of the selected screening practices and their corresponding weighting factors.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , further comprising the step of publishing the calculated ratings on an automated system. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15  wherein the ratings are on a website running on a server accessible by a user. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 15  wherein the ratings are accessible by an applet running on a mobile device. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the selected screening practices are at least one of the group consisting of:
 verification of past employment, verification of background, or drug screening tests. 
 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the selected screening practices relating to verification of past employment are at least one of the group consisting of: employment eligibility (I9) verification, employment history verification, education/licenses/credentials verification, reference check, and social security verification 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the selected screening practices relating to verification of background are at least one of the group consisting of: state criminal background check, federal criminal background check, civil lawsuit check, credit history check, motor vehicle report, child abuse check, elder abuse check, national sex offender check, excluded parties list system (EPLS) check, list of excluded individuals/entities (LEIE) check, and tuberculosis testing. 
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the selected screening practices relating to verification of drug screening test results are at least one of the group consisting of: pre-employment drug testing, post-injury drug testing, random drug testing, and reasonable suspicion drug testing. 
     
     
         22 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising the steps of:
 identifying the executive management of an IE from at least one of a) information entered by the IEs, b) a corporate database, and c) a corporate information service; 
 choosing a target manager to analyze from the executive management found; 
 obtaining at least one of a) criminal background information, b) civil background information, and c) past corporate performance for the target manager; 
 adjusting the obtained information for at least one of the a) severity of a criminal offense, b) age of the information obtained, and c) corporate size; 
 creating a rating based upon the adjusted information; 
 making available to a predetermined group at least one of the information obtained, and the ratings available to users of the system. 
 
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 22  wherein:
 the adjusted information is used to create a rating of a target manager for at least one of a) criminal background, b) civil background, and c) past corporate performance; and 
 making the rating available to a predetermined group. 
 
     
     
         24 . The method of  claim 22  wherein the past corporate performance is adjusted by the target manager's level in the company. 
     
     
         25 . The method of  claim 23  wherein at least one rating is created based upon the ratings of a plurality of target managers.