Mon, March 31st, 2008 - 3:28 pm - By Gordon Basichis
Interview Tips to Land the Job
It’s hard enough to get an interview, let alone land the job.
We coach all candidates prior to interview. Once the interview is complete, we speak with both the candidates and hiring manager to see how the interview went and if the intent is to go forward. Here’s what we’ve found out:
1) The résumé and technical skills get you in the door.
2) Personality, demeanor and appearance are judged before anything else
once you’re in the interview session.
3) Everything you say will be judged and analyzed during and after the
interview.
Once in the interview, it’s not about you. Your skills and qualifications are important; however, the only thing that really matters is if you personally can make the company and hiring manager successful.
Hiring is expensive and hiring managers are afraid to make a mistake.
During the interview:
For the complete article go to techexecpartners.com
Corra understands the hiring process can be difficult and multi-layered. One one hand there is the application process, followed by the interview. Diane Gubin gives some great advice to employment candidates on how they should handle an interview.
Realize, too, there will be pre-employment screening, after the interview process. More and more companies are relying on background checks to help filter their employment candidates. So though you may do well during your interview process, there are many companies that will have pause if the background report comes up with negative material.
Never lie. Those who lie about education verification are almost always eliminated, immediately. Criminal reports are more obvious, and anyone who fudges on these will also be denied employment. Be forthright. It will increase your chances of getting the job.
Check them out before you hire.
Fri, March 28th, 2008 - 5:55 pm - By Nick Gustavson
(Los Angeles) Corra Group has expanded its pre-employment packaging services to assist different business sectors in selecting appropriate background checks for their respective industries.
“Corra is about being user friendly,” said Nick Gustavson, Co-Founder of the Corra Group. “We believe the enhanced packages will make it easier for Human Resources Manager to select the background searches most fitting their needs. The new graphics we added to our website pages should make the pre-employment screening process a more enjoyable experience.”
Gustavson went on to say that Corra is always ready to design custom pre-employment screening packages for any of its clients. “The packages are merely samples and can be customized to meet the needs of any particular client. We will be adding more packages in the future to address the background needs of a variety of industries.”
The new Corra website pages include packages for different levels of employment in all major industries. There are packages for everything from the labor or clerical workforce up through management and several executive packages.
Corra is also developing an Industry Solutions page special packages listed for the Healthcare and Trucking and Transport Industries. BACKGROUND: Corra operates as Corra Group and specializes in pre-employment and online dating background checks as well as corporate research and marketing. It is one of the few companies that will answer the phone
Fri, March 28th, 2008 - 2:46 pm - By Gordon Basichis
Column by David Schmidt, Ph.D.
The Moral Imagination of Entrepreneurs
To deal effectively and responsibly with both ongoing and emerging ethics issues, business needs to shift its perspective from reactive compliance to proactive moral imagination.
Recent business ethics scandals have created a moral minefield of shifting expectations and growing uncertainty about the responsibilities of business. These scandals have triggered a backlash of stringent laws and standards, most notably the Sarbanes Oxley Act. While we should not minimize the importance of a fair and consistent regulatory framework, the solution to our most important, emerging ethics issues in 2008 will not come from laws alone. What we need from business is a renewed moral imagination that helps us frame the issues in innovative, more helpful ways.
For the entire article go to inc.com
Corra finds sometimes the term morals or ethics and business is too often an oxymoron. While most business people are pretty ethical, there are more than a few who practice their own brand of business, or should we say the type of business that has long been practiced by the more unsavory creatures around the globe.
But, today, the unsavory business practices of the bottom feeder types has migrated to upper echelons of business. There is everything from white collar crime to outright theft taking place at the loftier levels of the business community as well as at the bottom.
If you are a business person trying to make a buck, you could be taken in by one of the more unsavory types. There are plenty out there, on any given day. With the downturn of the economy, there are even more predators looking to scam you with their various fraud schemes. Desperate people, experiencing a loss of business, may enter into precarious partnerships or joint venture endeavors.
This is why it is so important to conduct corporate research. Run the business credit report as well as the comprehensive partner search. You may also wish to run criminal reports as well as county civil searches.
Check them out before you do business.
Thu, March 27th, 2008 - 3:43 pm - By Gordon Basichis
Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data
Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong.
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
“She decided to mess up everything for everybody,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. “She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed.”
For the entire article go to Foxnews.com
Corra is reminded of the old cliche about one bad apple running the barrel, or whatever. Well, it can be true, as evidenced her when one employee became overzealous and deleted valuable proprietary data files.
When Corra reads this, we have to wonder if this person had…er…difficulties prior to employment, and if they company that hired her ever did a background check. Increasingly, more businesses are getting wise and checking out their job candidate’s before hiring them. It’s a smart practice and probably the best way to avoid incidents as the one experienced at this company.
Nothing is a guarantee, but a preemployment screening program can best determine the history of a job candidate and help identify troubling situations that may arise on the job. Such troubling situations can cause a lot of problems on the workforce and lead to embarrassing publicity, such as the type we witness here.
Check them out before you hire. Sign up with Corra.
Wed, March 26th, 2008 - 2:21 pm - By Gordon Basichis
Corra finds that this time every year more trucking and transport companies are calling and asking for Motor Vehicle Driving Reports on their Truckers. Some will also request criminal reports as part of the compliance issues for the Department of Transportation (DOT).
There was a time when the trucking industry could rely on their insurance companies for the driving abstracts. But that time has all but come and gone. Most insurance companies no longer provide the driving records, citing Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliance issues.
Fair enough. If you need driving reports or, for that matter, any other type of background checks, then by all means call Corra. Corra will help you with your DOT compliance issues as well as provide preemployment screening services for your employment candidates.
Check them out before you hire.
Tue, March 25th, 2008 - 2:22 pm - By Gordon Basichis
The ABCs of Business CreditLearn why it’s important to establish a business credit report separate from your personal credit and just how to do it.
URL: http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/paymentsandcollections/article76886.html
As an entrepreneur, did you know you have a unique opportunity to build, maintain and acquire credit both individually and as a business owner? That’s good news if you’re trying to build and grow a company because you won’t have to rely solely on your personal credit to do that.
As a member of the business credit industry, it’s been my experience that fewer then 10 percent of all entrepreneurs know about or truly understand how business credit is established and tracked-and how it affects their lives and businesses.
So let’s first take a look at how personal credit differs from business credit. Then we’ll discuss some steps you can take to build your business credit.
For the entire article go to entrepreneur.com
Corra knows a lot of business owners acquire credit because they are hard working, diligent and intent on using the money to expand their businesses. By far and away, this is the largest group of business owners. These are good people in which to enter joint ventures, partnerships or to rely upon as vendors for your goods and services.
They also make good clients. They pay.
But then there are those who have learned how to work the angles, to boost credit for themselves and their businesses by using questionable and sometimes illegal means to do so. Let’s face it, there are a lot of scammers out there, and this economic climate brings them out of the woodwork.
To assure you are not about to become the victim of some fraudulent scheme, you should perform due diligence on anyone, any business with home you are about to engage. Whether it be a partnership, a joint venture of sorts, or whether you are planning on using them as a vendor or taking them on at a client, it is often wise to conduct business background checks.
Corporate credit checks are important, as are the comprehensive/business partner searches on the key executives and company owners. You may even run criminal and civil checks at well.
Because, if you don’t, there is a chance you could be the victim of fraud. You could lose money and face an embarrassing and even criminal situation.
So check them out before you do business.
Mon, March 24th, 2008 - 2:05 pm - By Gordon Basichis
Nearly 80 Percent of Workers Remain Confident in Job SecurityNearly 80 Percent of Workers Remain Confident in Job Security ST. LOUIS , January 6, 2008 - The confidence level of U.S. workers slightly decreased in December, according to a recent survey of 2,827 working …Go to topix.net
Corra finds the pattern of wavering confidence in job security to be most interesting. Corra supposes that with so much information being processed at any given point, and so much data being filtered and subsequently interpreted for meaning, the prognosis and the interpretation of the data can seem to change at any time. So then, are we really living in a mutable and relative society where even our hard data defies any concrete impressions? Hard to say.
What Corra does know is that times will change and there will be more jobs and fewer. The truth in data as we see it is the consequences of the last number of years have caused an even greater need for background checking, even at the lowest levels of the work force. There are many reasons for this, and most are not worth going into at this time. Chances are you know them already.
Just remember. Check them out before you hire.
Fri, March 21st, 2008 - 2:10 pm - By Gordon Basichis
The warmer weather is rapidly approaching. Well, here in Southern California Corra is always treated to the warmer weather. This week many people will spend time with their families to pray and socialize, maybe barbecue, and certainly to show off those spiffy new Easter Shoes.
Come Monday, most of us will be back to work. Save maybe for the students on Spring Break, lucky devils, who have not yet wiped off the suntanning lotion and staggered back to their respective schools. And Monday may be the day your are hiring new employees for the coming season. Before you do, run background checks on every serious job candidate. It’s the smart thing to do, and it is very cost effective. Just call Corra.
Meanwhile, we wish you all a very Happy Easter Holiday.
Check them out before you hire.