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Top Employee Performances are Much More Productive and Tend to Be Friends With the Same Type of Candidates

Dr. John Sullivan, in an article on ERE.Net addresses how top performers are really just that, being as much as four times as productive as the average worker.   Top performing employees also tend to hang with other top performing employees and provide referrals for job applicants of a similar caliber. Here is but part […]

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Colorado Becomes Ninth State to Put Constraints on Employment Credit Reports

As some believe that conducting employment credit reports as a background check for employment screening may be discriminatory, affecting minorities, mainly, and those who suffered in the economic downturn, Colorado has become the ninth state to prohibit credit reports for employment purposes. According to the notice distributed by the law firm Seyfarth and Shaw….” Two types of […]

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Disparity on Background Checks Between Citizens and Politicians

Here is an article worth noting.  The Washington Posts cites that Republican constituents are more in favor of background checks for firearms purchases than the Republican Senators who voted against the bill. According to the Washington Post…”In the aftermath of the vote, most Americans said they believe the Senate shouldn’t have rejected background checks. And even more […]

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Corra Group Now Offers Social Media Background Checks for Employment Screening

Corra Group is now offering Social Media Background Checks. The new background checking instrument is FCRA compliant and enables employers to navigate the complicated legal landscape of social media with clear, consistent, and insightful results. The special software utilizes a combination of automated and manual review processes. The program ignores information that is not legally allowable in […]