Universal Background Screening (UBS), a national leader in compliant, high-quality background screening services, has appointed Susan Horn as Senior Vice President of Sales. Horn brings extensive experience leading high-performing sales teams across the background screening and healthcare industries, with a strong focus on service excellence and long-term client success.
“This is ... Read More
Ashley McManus
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Dec2025
Universal Background Screening (UBS), a leader in compliant, high-quality background screening services for employers nationwide, has appointed Claire Martin as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With more than two decades of global finance leadership across high-growth SaaS, e-commerce, and technology companies in the United States and Europe, Martin brings the financial ... Read More
December 11, 2025Ashley McManus
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Dec2025
Universal Background Screening (UBS), a trusted provider of background screening and compliance solutions for regulated industries, has announced the appointment of Val Poltorak as President today. Poltorak brings more than twenty years of leadership experience across SaaS, FinTech, healthcare, staffing, and other compliance-focused sectors. Her background includes building high-performing teams, ... Read More
December 10, 2025Ashley McManus
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Dec2025
Smart Tags are one of the most valuable tools UBS offers to help clients manage hiring decisions with greater accuracy, speed, and consistency. As adoption grows, we've seen a need to better explain how Smart Tags work, how they're implemented, and how clients use them day to day.
This article provides ... Read More
December 9, 2025Ashley McManus
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Dec2025
Background screening isn't just about checking boxes or rushing through reports. It's about building trust through diligence, openness, and an unwavering commitment to do right by both clients and their candidates. At UBS, we take pride in setting ourselves apart, and that difference shows in our approach to verification, response, ... Read More
December 8, 2025Ashley McManus
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Dec2025
Strong compliance processes are essential in healthcare staffing, where even a small oversight can affect patient care and partner trust. For Mandy Sudbeck, Director of Compliance at Atlas MedStaff, choosing the right background screening partner is critical to keeping clinicians moving through the hiring process quickly and accurately.
Mandy began her ... Read More
December 2, 2025Ashley McManus
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Nov2025
At Universal Background Screening, we know that hiring teams today need more than a vendor. They need a partner that continuously improves, anticipates compliance changes, and builds tools that make screening smoother for both employers and candidates. That's why our product and engineering teams deliver enhancements designed to reduce friction, ... Read More
November 20, 2025Ashley McManus
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Nov2025
Hiring decisions carry significant weight. Organizations need background screening partners who maintain rigorous standards and bring genuine transparency to every engagement. At Universal Background Screening (UBS), these principles guide everything we do.
Primary Source Verification: The Accuracy Standard
Many background screening providers rely primarily on aggregated databases. While this approach offers speed, ... Read More
November 19, 2025Ashley McManus
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Nov2025
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) represents one of today's most significant, yet consistently underutilized, employer incentive programs. With credits reaching $9,600 per eligible hire, this federal initiative offers substantial cost recovery opportunities that thousands of businesses forfeit annually due to administrative complexity, regulatory requirements, and process gaps.
Universal Background Screening (UBS) has ... Read More
November 17, 2025Ashley McManus
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Nov2025
If you've ever had to delay a critical hire because fingerprinting took weeks instead of days, you already know the problem. In regulated industries like healthcare, education, and financial services, fingerprint-based background checks aren't optional. They're the law. Yet somehow, in 2025, most organizations are still managing this process like ... Read More
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