Behind the Screens: Conversations with Background Screening Pros hosted by Les Rosen
Behind the Screens: Conversations with Background Screening Pros hosted by Les Rosen
Podcast Description
"Behind the Screens" is a podcast that brings you up close and personal with the people in the background screening industry. Hosted by Les Rosen, each episode features in-depth, human-interest interviews with a diverse range of guests—including business executives, employees with extensive screening experience, vendors who serve the industry, and legal and compliance experts. These conversations dive into the personal stories and insights of those who know the industry best, offering a fresh perspective on the people driving background screening. Whether you are part of the industry or just curious, "Behind the Screens" delivers authentic, non-marketing-focused stories from the world of background checks.Your host: Les Rosen is an Attorney, former owner of a screening firm, the chair of the steering committee that founded PBSA and the first co-chair of PBSA, as well as author of the "Safe Hiring Manual," and frequent presenter nationwide.For more information, see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesterrosen/ CONTACT US!Send comments, feedback, suggestions for future guests or sponsorship information to:[email protected] Sponsor: https://preemploymentdirectory.com/ , publisher of the Background Buzz!
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The podcast focuses on diverse topics within the background screening industry, such as compliance, technology, industry transformations, and personal growth. Episodes include insights from business executives like 'Katie Hartley discussing leadership and regulatory challenges' and 'Fred Giles on second-chance hiring and industry growth,' providing concrete examples of industry relevance and passion.
“Behind the Screens” is a podcast that brings you up close and personal with the people in the background screening industry. Hosted by Les Rosen, each episode features in-depth, human-interest interviews with a diverse range of guests—including business executives, employees with extensive screening experience, vendors who serve the industry, and legal and compliance experts.
These conversations dive into the personal stories and insights of those who know the industry best, offering a fresh perspective on the people driving background screening. Whether you are part of the industry or just curious, “Behind the Screens” delivers authentic, non-marketing-focused stories from the world of background checks.
Your host: Les Rosen is an Attorney, former owner of a screening firm, the chair of the steering committee that founded PBSA and the first co-chair of PBSA, as well as author of the “Safe Hiring Manual,” and frequent presenter nationwide.
According to attorney and industry veteran Vince Pascarella, “For those of you who don’t know, Les Rosen was the chief architect of the PBSA predecessor NAPBS, and its first Chair and unofficial Executive Director. Simply put, no Les Rosen then, no PBSA today.”
For more information, see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesterrosen/
CONTACT US!
Send comments, feedback, suggestions for future guests or sponsorship information to:
Platinum Sponsor: https://preemploymentdirectory.com/ , publisher of the Background Buzz!
I have known Vivek Khanna for years. I see him at every PBSA conference, and I always wondered how someone becomes the person who figured out international background screening before most of the industry even knew it needed figuring out.
This conversation gave me the full picture, and it was even more interesting than I expected.
Who is Vivek Khanna
Vivek Khanna is the co-founder of Neeyamo, a global HR services company covering background screening in over 200 countries with in-house operations in more than 80 of them.
He also founded ScreenXchange, a technology platform built for background screening companies outside the US that embeds an AI agent called Agent Sam for verification workflows.
Vivek served as chair of the PBSA Global Advisory Council and helped initiate the international accreditation standards that now cover companies worldwide.
Vivek started as a chartered accountant in India, ran his family's manufacturing business, caught the internet bug in 1998, landed in the US just as the dot-com bubble burst, and stumbled into background screening through a LexisNexis contract that showed him a broken global process and a massive opportunity.
He built Neeyamo into one of the most recognized names in international screening, initiated the PBSA international accreditation standards, and somewhere along the way also became a music producer releasing Hindi ghazal albums on Spotify using AI.
Pro Conversation You Don't Want to Miss!
- How Vivek turned international background screening from a pass-through cost CRAs barely broke even on into a high-margin revenue line, sometimes at a ratio of fifteen dollars cost to seventy-five dollars billed
- The core value that drives everything at Neeyamo: customer centricity, and why the cost of saying no to a customer is always higher than the cost of saying yes
- His take on the organizational triangle turning into a diamond, and why the future belongs to people who adopt AI tools and move up to the middle management layer rather than fight the shift
- How Vivek helped kick off the PBSA international accreditation standards, a process that took five years and now covers companies across the globe
- The fun fact that genuinely surprised me: in the last two months, using AI tools, he wrote Hindi ghazal poetry, converted it into fully produced songs with music, and released three albums on Apple Music and Spotify under the name Bedar Lakhnawi
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss a conversation. Thanks to our sponsor, PreemploymentDirectory.com, publisher of Background Buzz and numerous other resources. And a special thanks to W. Barry Nixon.
Connect with US:
- Les Rosen– https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesterrosen/
- Subscribe to our YouTube Channel– https://www.youtube.com/@BehindtheSCreens200
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