Corra Daily PlanetMany employers and Human Resources Managers have discovered that employment candidates are not always as truthful as they should be on their resumes. Some embellish, stress the importance of their jobs, and then some make claims that are more false than true.
I wrote about this in an article…”What to Do When Their Are Discrepancies on Your Candidate’s Resume.
For those staffing people who haven’t read it. It may be well worth a look.
Apparently, for some it is not enough to fail to conduct background checks, or when they are completed and return, allow them to fall through the cracks. Some will falsify background checks, which I suppose is a means of socially engineering the employment screening concept.
Bloomberg reports that investigators charged with conducting background checks on security workers have falsified reports. Eighteen such souls, including contractors and government workers, have been convicted of falsifying background reports since 2006. There are some 36 such cases waiting in the wings, but the Inspector General lacks the resources to clear them at the moment.
According to the article…”Two Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittees plan to hold a hearing addressing the government’s security-clearance process.
Two Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittees plan to hold a hearing addressing the government’s security-clearance process.
The Office of Personnel Management is responsible for some 90 percent of the background investigations of U.S. government employees and contractors. The Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security are the biggest users of the program.
The personnel office conducts more than 2 million investigations a year, according to its website. It vets applicants for federal agency jobs and applicants for security clearances.
For those employers who conduct background checks as part of their pre-employment screening programs, please take note that Corra Group will be closed for the Fourth of July weekend.
Corra Group will be closed Thursday, July 4th, and Friday, July 5th, and will reopen for regular business hours, Monday July 8th.
Please not that all criminal and civil courts throughout the United States will be closed Thursday, July 4th. Most courts will also be closed Friday, July 5th.
Corra Group wants to wish everyone a very happy Fourth of July. Be safe. Have fun. See you after the weekend.
Corra Group has initiated employment screening packages and expanded its services to the healthcare industry. Based on various news releases, including the joint Pro Public/Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize winning studies, the increased services will assist both healthcare facilities and staffing agencies in properly vetting their employer candidates.
In such articles jointly published by Pro Publica and the Los Angeles Times and written by Tracy Weber and Charles Orenstein, entitled, Temp Firms a Magnet for Unfit Nurses, and California Eyes Discipline for Nurses Sanction by Other States,contend that high demand for nurses and scant oversight enable nurses and other healthcare workers have been sanctioned elsewhere for sexual abuse, neglect, rampant drug use and criminality but could work freely by moving to different states.
“There are fly-by-night recruiting firms that want to do the minimum of employment screening in order to get their healthcare workers hired,” said Nick Gustavson, Corra Group Co-Founder. “And then some staffing groups try to be diligent, but if not carefully checked, past misconduct on the part of healthcare workers can slip through the cracks.
“Corra Group can deliver a comprehensive group of background searches that will benefit staffing agencies and healthcare facilities,” he said. “Staffing groups, hospitals, and even the local doctor’s office can avail themselves of our employment screening packages.”
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