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Background Checks and Interviewing Part of Preemployment Screening

U.S. News and World Report had a recent article in its Small Business and Entrepreneurs Section.   the article was entitled “Interview for Integrity”.    In the article, one of the subjects, Jay Meschke, offers some great tips about interviewing employment candidates.  He comments on everything from spotting possible lies to the increased deception as a result […]

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Drug Tests as Part of an Employers Preemployment Screening Process

Drug tests are increasingly becoming part of an employer’s preemployment screening suite of background checks.   While some employers are still reluctant to conduct background checks as part of the preemployment screening process, many more are faced with several conditions that mandate they do so.   For many, it is a fact of life whose time has […]

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A Brief Education on Education Verification

It is generally believed by those in our trade that while employment candidates may embellish their employment tasks and positions, they will downright lie about their education. Yes, that person interviewing with your Human Resource Manager and other relevant executives, the one looking presentable and acting so bright and articulate may well be inventing his […]

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One Bad Employee Can Really Damage Your Business

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 […]