A Market Growing Faster Than It Can Staff
Hospitality hiring has stayed unusually active even as other sectors cool off. In the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for May 2026, leisure and hospitality job openings rose by 95,000 in a single month, one of the ... Read More
Archive: 2026
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Jul2026
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Jul2026
Compliance leaders moving between health plans and traditional insurance often carry assumptions that do not transfer. Drug testing is one of the clearest examples. In traditional insurance, drug screening programs are frequently minimal or absent altogether. In managed care, drug testing sits inside a much larger web of regulatory obligation, provider risk, ... Read More
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Jun2026
Marcus had been on the line for six weeks when the plant manager finally pulled his file. By then it was too late. A forklift incident on a Tuesday afternoon sent a coworker to urgent care and put the whole shift behind by half a day. When HR went looking ... Read More
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Jun2026
For decades, background screening has worked the same way: an employer places an order, a provider runs the checks, a report comes back, the report gets filed. Then, the next time that same clinician takes a new assignment, the process starts over from scratch.
In many industries, nobody has questioned that ... Read More
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Jun2026
Most of the healthcare organizations and staffing firms we work with are not running outdated processes because they do not care about efficiency. They are running them because the processes were built for a workforce that no longer looks the way it did.
When the long-tenured hospital employee was the norm, ... Read More
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May2026
Most hiring workflows have gone digital: applicant tracking, e-signatures, automated background checks, digital I-9s: organizations have invested heavily in streamlining the process from offer to day one. Yet for many HR, talent acquisition, and compliance teams, one piece of the puzzle has never caught up: fingerprinting.
In the majority of organizations, ... Read More
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May2026
Finding the right candidate is only half the work. Getting them from offer acceptance to day one without losing momentum is where many hiring processes quietly break down. Disconnected tools, manual handoffs, and limited visibility into screening progress can slow everything down at exactly the wrong moment.
To address that, Universal ... Read More
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May2026
Most conversations in background screening focus on the same short list: faster turnaround times, new AI features, cleaner candidate experiences, better platform integrations. Those things matter, but there's a quieter factor that often determines whether real innovation actually happens, and whether it holds up five years from now.
Who owns your ... Read More
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May2026
A "good enough" background check might actually be good enough for a lot of industries: healthcare is not one of them.
Place a clinician at the bedside, send a caregiver into a patient's home, or staff a critical hospital department, and background screening stops being a procurement line item. It becomes ... Read More
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Apr2026
AI is everywhere in 2026. Every vendor pitch deck seems to promise "AI-powered" everything; faster decisions, lower costs, fewer errors. Background screening is no exception.
But if you're responsible for hiring in healthcare or healthcare staffing, you can't afford to adopt AI just because it's trendy. You need an approach that ... Read More
