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Corra Group Meets Increased Need for International Background Checks

El Segundo, CA (PRWEB) June 05, 2012

Corra Group has expanded its sourcing capabilities to meet the marked increase in the need forinternational background checks. The increase in international background searches is a result of more American employers recruiting applicants from abroad.

“Within the past five years or so, American companies are recruiting qualified candidates from a variety of foreign countries,” said Gordon Basichis, Corra Group Co-Founder. “Some of these candidates are being recruited to staff the corporation’s foreign offices, and many have the advanced skill sets that are missing in a quantity of domestic graduates. Screening them to assure they are eligible for employment has altered the dynamic of industry.”

Basichis noted more employers are hiring foreign recruits in both traditional and developing industries. They are being recruited by small and mid-sized contractors and larger corporations operating in healthcare, technology, finance, and the defense industries.

“The positions for which they are being recruited are often sensitive in nature,” said Basichis. “There are definitive concerns regarding confidentiality, national security, and access to proprietary information. For recruiters and corporate human resources departments, it is mandated by most employers that a thorough employment screening program be conducted on every candidate.

“If the recruit has been educated abroad, then it is incumbent the staffing entity conduct criminal records, as well as employment verification and education verification in the countries where the candidate has lived, worked, or attended college,” said Basichis. “It is essential that Corra Group continues to seek international resources that can respond to these needs with accuracy and in a timely fashion.”

Basichis noted that this intensified recruiting of international students is a measure taken by key employers to satisfy their current needs for highly skilled and educated workers. “It is also their way of assuring there will be an enduring flow of talent through the various industrial pipelines that keep their businesses competitive in the global market,” he said.

There are thousands of jobs going unfilled for the lack of skilled workers,” said Basichis. “If the government can somehow streamline its procedure for granting immigrant status to talented foreign applicants, then the hiring process will further intensify. Meeting demand for comprehensive international employment screening is a continual and evolving process.”

BACKGROUND: Corra operates as Corra Group and specializes in pre-employment and corporate research and investigation. It is one of the few companies that will answer the phone. You can review the website athttp://www.corragroup.com.

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The Increased Risk of Corporate Espionage

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has initiated a new campaign to thwart the increased use of  industrial espionage.   According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal ,  the new campaign will focus on the prevention of  corporate espionage.   The FBI will feature billboards in nine cities, pronouncing, “Protect America’s Trad Secrets.”

As many businesses can tell you, corporate espionage has been on the increase during the last few years.   From a strategic viewpoint, among the more unscrupulous companies, there is greater benefit in stealing another company’s trade secrets than conducting the costly and time consuming research and development on their own.

There is few things worse as is the case with one company that approached Corra Group, where they discovered certain trade secrets that put them at the top of their industrial sector had been compromised through industrial espionage.  As with a good many cases, the theft of proprietary information came from within the company.   Other methods are through hacking into the computer systems, planting a mole, or just plain old burglary.  Despite what is depicted in glitzy Hollywood movies, sometimes breaking into a business is neither as high tech or as difficult as the film would make it out to be.    And, of course,  a good many industries, as headlines prove over and over, have relatively insecure security systems that allow for hacking, data theft and cyber invasions that could seriously compromise the new technology or physical product.

For the complete article click on this link on HR.Toolbox

 

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Columnist’s Review of the New EEOC Guidlines

Jennifer Rubin, the the Washington Post, writes a thoughtful critique on the new EEOC Guidelines regarding background checks and their use for preemployment screening.  In her article,  Rubin writes that unnecessary and possibly illegal constraints are being placed on employers.  She asserts the new guidelines contain considerable contradictions, where she asks in her article…

“Can a police department enforce a ban on hiring any convicted felon? Doesn’t seem like it. Can a bank impose a flat rule that no one convicted of financial crime can handle cash? Not unless he wants to get sued.”

Rubin notes how employers must consider and applicant on a case by case basis.  This would mean a reduction in the standardization of hiring policy.  She addresses the issue where an employer overlooking criminal records may come into conflict with the compliance standards of state and local laws, even federal laws, in relation to certain types of jobs.

 

I have seen a number of articles related to the new EEOC Guidelines.  This is among the more thoughtful.  One should read it by going to this link.

 

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Oregon State Driving Records to Increase in Fees

For those conducting MVRs, Motor Vehicle Driving Records, as background checks for either DOT compliance or employment screening, please be aware, the Oregon State Department of Motor Vehicles will be increasing fees for the driving records.

As of June 1st, 2012, the Oregon State DMV will raise the rates for a driving record.  Stay tuned for final pricing.