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Jobs Growth Makes For Fewer Candidates

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Job Growth Rises

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 132,000 in November, a faster pace than the previous month, the Labor Department reported on Friday.

While job growth continued in the service sector, led by professional and business services, food, and health care, there were fewer jobs in construction and manufacturing, the report said.The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.5 percent, up slightly from 4.4 percent in October, the report said.

Corra thinks the good news is there is job growth, signs of productive economy. The bad news, of course, is as all hiring services clamor for the quality candidates, the pickings will be slimmer.

In any event, don’t ever be in such a rush to hire someone that you overlook a background check. Since Corra conducts preemployment screening we get to see all the bad news, and get to hear our clients tell us how grateful they are that they run the criminal check, the credit check and with with increasing frequency as a supplement to the county criminal check, they also run the nationwide criminal check that also includes felons on the sexual offenders registry.

So take your time, and be thorough. Make sure your candidate is who he says he is. As Corra reminds you: check them out before you hire.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.