Archive for August, 2011

Corra Group Expands Its DOT Compliance Background Checks for Trucking Industry

Here is a posting from our recent public relations release, noting how we at Corra Group are now a full stop background checking service for DOT compliance in the trucking and transportation industry.  Corra Group will conduct everything from criminal background checks, to Motor Vehicle Driving Records, DOT compliant Employment Verification, and DOT Drug Tests.   Here [...]

Courtney Hunt’s Article on Social Media for Employment Screening

Dr. Corey Shelton Hunt  has written a most comprehensive article on the do’s and don’t of social media with regard to its uses as an employment screening background check.   I found this article most interesting and filled with tips for both the employers and their employment candidates.  Words to live by, especially in today’s [...]

Arizona Mandates Background Checks for Cab Drivers

You hear of cab drivers getting robbed.  In fact, robbing cab drivers is the kind of stuff that legends, okay, stories are made from.   If you live in New York or a major urban environment, you are reminded of the stickups cabbies face as they careen about town, struggling to make a buck.   [...]

Thousands Show Up for Atlanta Job Fair

It was reported by ABC News that thousand of unemployed workers showed up for an Atlanta, GA regional job fair.  Some slept in line, overnight, wearing their business suits.  I find this heart wrenching and in some ways disgusting.  Mind you, I don’t find their waiting and sleeping in line disgusting, but the fact that [...]