Abstract: A method for processing applications for employment from candidates involves receiving one or more sets of data each of which identifies a candidate and represents the candidate's employment application. Each received set of data is stored in a database. One or more initial hiring decisions are received and stored, each of which corresponds to a set of data stored in the database. Each set of data having a favorable initial hiring decision is automatically transmitted, upon receipt of the favorable initial hiring decision, to one or more screening officers to enable them to cause one or more screening procedures to be performed on the employment candidate identified in the respective set of data. One or more screening procedure results are received from the one or more screening officers and stored. A report is provided of each employment candidate for which favorable initial hiring decisions and screening procedure results are stored.