Credit Reports as Pre-Employment Background Checks

It should be no secret that with is economic downturn and slow recovery many job applicants have lousy credit.   Even those employment candidates who once had decent to excellent credit scores find themselves wanting, having been laid off or otherwise pressed for cash.   A bad economy can take you from upscale to downscale in a [...]

Conduct Background Checks for Workplace Violence

Everybody flocks to a fight.   From the schoolyard to the factory, nothing like a fistfight to bring people together.  It must be part of human nature to be attracted to two people going at it in the old school fashion.  Even in the workplace, it gives people something to talk about for weeks.   And when [...]

Nebraska Dept of Corrections to Expand Its Background Checks

Despite the economic crunch on states and their budgetary constraints, the Nebraska Department of Corrections is expanding its list of background checks to be screen its employment candidates. Undoubtedly, this is a very good thing, as the more background checks
The decision to expand the preemployment screening process came after it was revealed a working guard [...]

Tips for Conducting Education Verification Background Checks

Education Verification Background checks having increasingly become part of every recruiter’s preemployment screening program.  Why?  Some of it is the obvious, to qualify a job candidate for meeting the threshold requirements for the position.   Clearly, you want to be sure your employment candidate had at least the minimum skill sets for consideration.
But there is another [...]

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