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!
Timothy Baxter is the CEO and founder of Baxter Research, a wholesale criminal research firm he built from the ground up in San Francisco in the mid-1990s and has since grown into what many in the industry consider the gold standard for court-based criminal research. He is currently rolling out a fully rebuilt AI-based system after four years of development, and splits his time between Florida, Reno, and West Virginia.
Pro Conversation You Don't Want to Miss!
- How Tim went from calling in criminal court results from a phone booth to building an AI-based research system, and why he scrapped four years of work and started over to do it right
- The grandfather story that shaped Tim's entire worldview: a Depression-era decision made in a cornfield that ended with retirement at 50 and a quarter million dollars
- What Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance taught him about not sacrificing your life for the rice, and why that stuck with him since he was 20
- Tim's landmark Massachusetts work: why the fractional search misses 326% more felony convictions than a countywide search, and how Baxter Research was the first to deliver volume countywide searches in that state
- The superbike school at Laguna Seca, the motorcycle trip through Iceland to the filming location of Oblivion, and what it looks like when you spend decades actually doing the things you said you would
I've been in this industry a long time, and Tim Baxter was the very first person I ever met in it. So this one was personal for me, and I have to say, even after all these years, I learned things about this man I never knew.Tim's path to founding Baxter Research is one of the great origin stories in this industry: a pager, a phone booth, a trifold mailer with a Sherlock Holmes logo, and a trip to the library to find phone books from Fort Lauderdale and Texas. Before any of that, though, he spent his teens and early twenties traveling to more than 70 countries with just a backpack, a tie, and a jacket — courtesy of his mom's airline benefits. The same curiosity and grit that took him around the world is what built Baxter Research into a household name, and this conversation covers all of it.
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