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Five steps to attracting high quality job applicants
HireRight’s 2016 Benchmark Report, finding and keeping qualified employees is the highest priority for employers and hiring professionals. With the job market more candidate-centric than ever, though, employees are more likely to switch jobs for a better work environment, benefits package, salary, or opportunity. As previously posted on this blog, the ROI of a bad…
Read MoreTexas continue to challenge EEOC criminal background check guidance
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued guidance stating that employers cannot maintain blanket policies that exclude persons from employment on the basis of a prior criminal conviction, believing that such policies have a disparate impact against minority and male applicants. Instead, according to the guidance, employers should conduct an individual analysis of the applicant’s criminal history,…
Read MoreJune 2016 employment: US adds 287,000 jobs
New York Senator wants camps to have access to FBI background checks
Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) is pushing for legislation to open up the FBI’s sexual-offender and criminal databases so that organizations that employ counselors can conduct thorough background checks. Under current law, camps, charitable organizations and other employers of staff interacting with children are limited to New York state’s criminal recordkeeping. So a prospective employee with…
Read MoreDepartment of Labor announces $15.6 million in grants to support Americans with disabilities
Social media background checks increase by 500%
CareerBuilder’s annual social media recruitment survey, 60 percent of employers use social networking sites to research job candidates, up significantly from 52 percent last year. This means that over the past decade, social media background checks have increased a massive 500%. Tools such as Facebook and Twitter enable employers to get a glimpse of who…
Read MoreFive most frequently asked questions on E-Verify
FCRA Compliant Background Checks: How to manage federal and state FCRA regulations
Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is designed to protect individuals by promoting accuracy, fairness, and privacy of information in the files of every Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA). Most CRAs are credit bureaus that gather and provide information about individuals – such as if they pay their bills on time or have filed bankruptcy –…
Read MoreUber reaches $7.5 million settlement over driver background checks
Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a federal law that regulates background checks in the U.S., employers using third-party background check firms are required to give prior notice and disclosure to, and receive written consent from, subjects of background checks. This is not the first background check lawsuit Uber have faced. In fact, they’ve…
Read MoreTop 10 workplace productivity killers
For those that prefer print, here’s the list in text format: Cell phone/texting (55%) The internet (41%) Gossip (39%) Social media (37%) Coworkers dropping by (27%) Smoke/snack breaks (27%) Email (26%) Meetings (24%) Noisy Coworkers (20%) Cubicles (9%) You can read more about the research here: http://advice.careerbuilder.com/posts/from-cell-phones-to-noisy-coworkers-top-10-productivity-killers]]>
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