34 percent of all employment verifications performed reveal exaggeration or fraudulent information.

Eleven percent of all educational verifications performed contain falsifications.

42 percent of all driving records pulled contain infractions.

37.6 percent of surveyed college students admit to a history of criminal offenses.

According to surveys of human resource executives, more than half the resumes companies receive contain exagerrated or fraudulent information and/or significant omissions.

34 percent of resumes and 73 percent of job applications contain falsified or embellished information.

6.5 million adults were on probation, in jail, or on parole at year-end 2000.
(Bureau of Justice statistics 2002)

3.1 percent of all U.S. adult residents were on probation, in jail, or on parole at
year-end 2000. (Bureau of Justice statistics 2002)

The U.S. Justice Department report claims reveal nearly 2 million people are victims of workplace violence each year.

Over 30 percent of all business failures are the result of negligent hiring.
(U.S. Chamber of Commerce)

Embezzlement alone costs companies $4 billion a year.
(U.S. Chamber of Commerce)

13 people die through workplace violence each week.
(HR News, Jan 2002)

As many as 30 percent of all offenders are 'multi-state' offenders; that is, they have both federal and state records or, arrests in more than one state.
(Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Most persons arrested for criminal offenses have prior arrest records, and many have arrest records in more than one state.
(Federal Bureau of Investigation)

33 percent of state prisoners and 22 percent of federal prisoners said they had committed their current offense while under the influence of drugs.
(Business Life, 2001)

20 percent of the workplace population is using alcohol or other drugs at the worksite. (Business Life, 2001)

73 percent of all drug users are employed.
(Institute for a Drug-free Workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)

7.4 million employees abused drugs last month.
(Institute for a Drug-free Workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)

52 percent of all employees who test 'positive' for drugs are daily users.
(Institute for a Drug-free Workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)

35 percent of workers have seen or heard of on-the-job drug use by co-workers.
(Institute for a Drug-free Workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)

Alcohol misuse in the United States is estimated at $117 billion annually, including $66 billion in lost productivity.
(U.S. Department of Transportation 1997)