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!
Bon Idziak has 28 years in the background screening industry spanning CIC, First Advantage, Applicant Insight, Checkr, and Accurate Background. He served five years as chair of PBSA's Government Relations Committee, sat on the PBSA Board of Directors, and has represented the industry in meetings with the Department of Justice, the FTC, the CFPB, the EEOC, and federal and state lawmakers. He recently launched Symphonix, a global screening enablement software platform, and also operates a background screening company in Australia covering ACIC and AFP police checks.
If you want to know what 28 years of real experience in background screening actually looks like, this episode is the answer. Bon Idziak has done it all, and he is just getting started.
Bon started at CIC when Bruce Berg talked him out of quitting six months in, ran Applicant Insight for 12 years, helped build Checkr from employee number five, spent six years in compliance and global expansion at Accurate Background, moved into wholesale, and is now launching Symphonix, a platform built to solve the global screening gap that has existed in this industry for years. Along the way he chaired government relations for PBSA, sat on the board, and built a career defined by the same three things: passion, kindness, and an almost pathological need for the next challenge.
Pro Conversation You Don't Want to Miss!
- The call from Bruce Berg six months into Bon's first screening job that changed everything, and why he has never forgotten the promise Bruce made him: give me a year and you will have an amazing career in background screening
- What Bon learned at Checkr from employee number five about the difference between traditional screening and high-tech iterative models, and why reducing friction without compromising compliance is still the central tension in the gig economy
- The early career lesson that took years to really land: passion is great, but kindness, generosity, and giving others a soft place to land matters more than intensity
- Why Bon says it is always okay to be wrong, as long as you admit it and fix it, and how that principle has shaped how he leads every team he has ever built
- Symphonix: the new platform launching at PBSA Arlington that connects CRAs to global vendors agnostic to both, and why Bon believes it closes a gap that has existed in this industry for too long
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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