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MarComInternational Awards Competition selected The Background Buzz as one of their top-ranked e-newsletters in the world in the 2015 awards competition. MarCom’s International Awards Competition has become one of the largest competitions for marketing and communications professionals in the world.

The Background Buzz received an honorable mention. It has grown to become the leading e-publication in the background screening industry since being launched in June 2004 and regularly reports relevant news to professional background screeners and human resources professionals.

MarCom Awards announced winners for the 2015 international awards competition that recognizes outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals. There were over 6,500 entries from throughout the United States, Canada, and 15 other countries in the 2015 competition. The MarCom competition MarCom entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies, and freelancers. The competition has grown to perhaps the largest of its kind in the world. A look at the winners shows a range in size from individual communicators to media conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies. The competition is so well respected in the industry that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapters are entrants.

Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. Winners were selected from over 200 categories in seven forms of media and communication efforts- marketing, publications, marketing/promotion, public service/pro bono, creativity, and electronic/interactive. A complete list of Platinum and Gold Winners can be found on the MarCom Awards website at http://www.marcomawards.com.

The Background Buzz is widely acknowledged as the leading online newsletter for the background screening industry and professional background screeners depend on it as their news source. Every edition is packed full of relevant and timely information with the goal to keep readers interested in background screening and informed about legislative issues, new laws at the federal, state, and local level, technology advances, data protection, and privacy issues, occupational fraud, drug testing, etc.

In addition, each issue of The Background Buzz includes ‘The Washington Report‘ which is an update on what is happening in the U.S. capital city that background screeners need to know about. Whether it’s new guidance being issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or a hearing on a new focus area, or updates on the latest decisions by the Consumer Finance Protection Agency (CFPA) or a Federal Trade Commission action or other legislative initiatives our Washington correspondents keep our readers informed about the buzz around “the hill.”

Each edition of The Background Buzz also includes a Legal Challenge question & answer to help keep professional background screeners on top of their game and knowledgeable about their trade. This is a good primer for individuals interested in preparing for the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) certification test.

The Background Buzz also has a regular column called Public Records Update that is authored by the renowned public records guru, Mike Sankey, BRB Publications and the Public Record Retrieval Network (PRRN). This column keeps readers informed about changes occurring that impact access to court records and other relevant information that professional records retrievers need to know about.

Other columns that periodically appear in The Background Buzz include ‘The Background Bistro‘ which features an interview with an executive of a background screening firm. The interview focuses on learning about new directions that their business is heading and gaining their perspective on what is happening in the background screening industry.

Another column that periodically appears in The Background Buzz is ‘What’s NEXT’ which focuses on an emerging issue that will impact the background screening industry in the future. The goal of this column is to look forward and see what may be coming that professional background screeners need to pay attention to and prepare for.

All editions of The Background Buzz are posted to our archives to provide a rich history of what has been happening in the background screening industry and to serve as a reference tool for professional background screeners to research at any time. If you want to know what has happened and to be informed about what is happening then you should be reading The Background Buzz.

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