Archive for December, 2007

Background Checks and Corporate Research–Two New Year’s Resolutions For You

Corra believes that nothing is smarter than running background checks on your employment candidates and conducting corporate research on prospective vendors, clients and strategic partners. These checks can reveal the histories of your candidates and the current status of your business relations. With the changing paradigm of the economy, corporate research is becoming more essential. [...]

Another Year, More Companies Will be Requesting Background Checks

Corra has seen the background checking industry change dramatically in the last several years. More and more companies are discovering the smart move is to have a preemployment screening program in place. It is smart business It is cost effect, and it will go a long way in reducing expensive liability issues. With the year [...]

Corra Wishes All a Wonderful Holiday Season

Corra would like to wish clients, colleagues friend and associates a wonderful holiday season. We know more than a few of you have been rushing to get in your last minute preemployment screening checks or have been signing up for new background checking accounts. But now it’s time for all of us to take a [...]

Hiring Those Who Can Turn You Green

Reinventing the Cheeseburger Burgerville’s Tom Mears took an icon of damn-the-whales consumer excess–the drive-thru cheeseburger–and turned it green. In the process, he reanimated his business. From: Inc. Magazine| By: Chris Lydgate Distinguishing itself from the pack Burgerville had been a Northwest institution since its founding in 1961. But by the early 1990s, the chain had [...]