Showing posts with label background screening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label background screening. Show all posts

Friday, April 13, 2012

Steve Brownstein, Dennis Brownstein, and Donald Schneider Make Presence In NAPBS - Nashville

Steven Brownstein, Dennis Brownstein, and Donald Schneider, a super-powerhouse of criminal record check, background screening, and sales dynamics will be in Nashville April 15th-17th at the annual NAPBS Conference.

Steven Brownstein, whose conference in 2003 and whose efforts there formed the NAPBS, has been absent for several years from the annual conference. This year is different.

"It is sort of like a home-coming for me, quips Steven Brownstein.  The NAPBS,  it has been several years since my international travels have coincided with the NAPBS annual conference. This year that I am in the USA. I wouldn't miss this conference for anything."

His brother, Dennis Brownstein, couldn't agree more, " I usually attend the NAPBS conferences wiith my sales and marketing staff. It is such a pleasure to have my brother, Steve, here. He brings to the conference a dynamic that no one else in the industry quite does."

Donald Schneider, Straightline International's newly appointed Director of USA Sales, admits to being rather awed by the immensity of the NAPBS Conference and that it is such a successful garthering of industry titans. Yet, having known Steven Brownstein, he admits that it comes as no surprise the industry had through his effort evolved into this great entity.

Schneider adds, "As a relatively new-comer to the pre-employment screening industry, I see that there are many committed members to NAPBS. I hope to be one of those committed.  It is with a matter of pride that I announce that Straightline International and our sister newspaper, The Background Investigator, will host the NAPBS Newcomer Reception."

About hosting the NAPBS Newcomer Reception, that's Brownstein through and through. Always giving a hand to the underdog. Always helping the industry and its participants to excel and succeed.

And he gives without any strings attached. That it is indeed a quality he has, a quality rarely found these days.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

USA Criminal Record Search Hits All Time Low Pricing

The USA county criminal record searched reached a new low in pricing as Crimefx announced a country wide reduction to $1.75 per county searched.

The search is performed according to NAPBS provider guidelines.

That will ensure the quality of your result while the unheard of before price of $1.75 assures your bottom line increases almost exponentially.

The $1.75 cost per background check does not include any court levied fees or charges for the name search.

What is does include is the exact same type search performed by most criminal record retrievers and background screening companies.

Pre-employment screening companies and end-users will be thrilled to know that Steven Brownstein has already successfully completed the NAPBS Provider Exam, which in their words, "Those
who successfully complete the exam show due diligence and industry knowledge that
should be beneficial to their clients and the end-user."


Steven Brownstein believes criminal record searches should be priced fairly for the product they deliver.

According to Brownstein, "There should be no doubt that clear records take little time and effort to obtain; there is no real reason in the world to over price them. The real work is in the records found doing the searches. They average from 5%-15% of the total amount of records checked. Now that's what we should be paid for."

Crimefx takes into consideration the time and effort it takes to process the criminal record search. Based on a formula they have found that it can still be quite profitable to keep prices low; but of course, if a company wants to pay more for the same search result they have the perogative.

Just why should you pay more?

Steven Brownstein, President of Straightline International agrees, "Heck, it's no secret how criminal record searches are done in the USA. There are only so many criminal record retrievers in the USA, only so many online court repositories to search,and only so many courts to call or go to."

"These searches, he continues, "are not closely guarded secrets as some companies would want you to believe. Even the procedures companies have in place to test the accuracy of the court criminal record retriever is common knowledge. This is not rocket science."

But even by including rocket science, technology has enabled pricing to steadily fall in the county criminal record check marketplace.

Crimefx has positioned itself in the forefront of this consumer- friendly pricing. There is no need to pay artificial, extraordinarily high prices for the county criminal record product.

Crimefx can be reached through Straightline International offices. Call 1-670-256-7000 to reach a customer service representative that will be more than happy to accept your low offer of $1.75 to perform the same type of search that you already are more likely paying 3 or 4 times as much.

Steven Brownstein can be a little more difficult to reach by phone. He is best reached by E-Mail at steveb@search4crime.com  . He is regularly travelling the globe in search of a better way to access public records.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Manila Courts And Straightline International

Steven Brownstein actually gets things done. He has spent more time travelling around the world to courthouses than anyone else in history.
As he stays humble about his efforts, it is important that this blog gives him credit where it's due.
Recently he returned from a week in Manila visiting the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC), the Makati RTC, the Mandulayong Municipal Trial Court, and the Pasay City Trial Court.
Why, I asked do you go?
"Because," he replied, " there is no better way to get an understanding of how a system workd than seeing it operate first hand."
"I've been in this business (pre-employment screening) long enough to know that there are many shortcuts to obtaining criminal records. Most research companies are apt to use them (as time is an issue in background checks - everyone expects instant turnaround time). But there are no shortcuts. Every time you use suspect services you, yourself, leave the door wide open to litigation."
"But, I go to the courts around the world. I make the contacts. We're taking about 100's of cities worldwide. Most major cities on all the continents."
"I think Benjamin Franklin would be proud of me.
"I had to ask Brownstein, "Why Ben Franklin?"
"Simply," he said, "Franklin was one of the greatest Statesmen of all time."
So Steven Brownstein travels around the world and learns court sytems.
He takes that knowledge, shares it with the background screening industry, uses his contacts made for reliable results of international criminal record requests.
Steven Brownstein - A Johnny Appleseed of criminal record retrieval.