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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 coming to a close and the new year about to begin, Corra suggest you take stock of your needs. Establishing a good pre-employment screening program, and be sure that the background searches in your program are more than sufficient to cover all your needs.

After all, with the changing landscape of the workplace, more businesses are conducting international criminal searches as well as education verification on their foreign candidates. Corra conducts international criminal searches for most nations around the world.

Corra isn’t saying new about the world being full of surprises. Some are pleasant surprises, but most unfortunately are not so pleasant. The trick is to take necessary measures to reduce the level of unpleasant surprises. In the world of employment that means conducting background checks as a good means of avoiding mishaps.

So put a preemployment program in place for the coming year. And if you have one, be sure to update it so it meets your present needs.

Remember, check them out before you hire.

Happy New Year to one and all.

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.