Here is a refreshing and informative article on background checks.  Robin Paggi, on Bakersfield.Com, has written a how to for those who wish to conduct employment screening.  Rather than delve into the potential dark side and discriminatory practices sometimes associated with background checks, Paggi gets to the point in listing employment screening procedure.  She takes [...]

Time for some oldies but goods, or in this case, not so goodies.  As I will be appearing on television this Saturday to discuss Workplace Violence, I thought I would post some articles I have written previously.   This articles pertain to the needs for background checks and employment and help prevent workplace violence, but [...]

Normally, I would be writing about background checks here.   But for those who don’t know me, I have had for years a literary life outside of employment screening.  And since my new novel, The Blood Orange, was just published, I figured i would post something about it here. Minstrel’s Alley is the publishing group [...]

Mat Honan flunked his social media background check.  He writes about it on Gizmodo, I Flunked My Social Media Background Check.  Will You? I thought it an entertaining piece.  Honan writes with humor and detail and as he does so one is struck that this obviously intelligent guy might have trouble finding work based on his social [...]