background checks
Background checks and embellishing your resume
this blog before, and with recent news there is no reason not to re-visit the issue and re-enforce our previous claims. While it is OK to emphasize your attributes and focus on your prior achievements, to embellish or over-exaggerate these claims is fool-hardy. These days, high level background screening will rule out your resume before…
Read MoreEEOC request for background check information
credit checks and the role they should, or should not, play in pre-employment background screening. Last week, as a follow-up to the hearing, the EEOC posted a request for information on its website that explores issues surrounding liability associated with providing an employment reference. They have posted a request for information on the questions raised,…
Read MorePre-employment background screening to include nicotine tests
no longer hire smokers who fail a drug test for nicotine as part of a pre-employment background screening program beginning January 1, 2011. The new program does not effect current employees, but will test any future applicants for nicotine as part of their pre-employment background check. Those that fail this test will not be hired.…
Read MoreDaycare background screening goes unchecked
background checks on its workers, as you would expect and as is the legislation in other states. However, the state reviews those checks multiple times a year at licensed facilities; but it can’t review them at unlicensed faith-based day cares. Ultimately, this means that you’re trusting the individual in charge of the daycare that everyone…
Read MoreNorth Carolina background checks
Companies can perform a variety of background checks when hiring an employee, or once they are hired, to ensure they are not putting the organizations’ status or functioning in jeopardy. The ever increasing amount of lawyers eager to pick up cases pertaining to employee rights has reinforced the necessity for companies to conduct an adequate…
Read MorePolice officer fired for running background checks on dates
dating. Now most people I’m sure can understand that this would have been a tempting option had they been in the same position. Nonetheless, the significance of background screening and the important role that it plays in protecting vulnerable members of society should take away that temptation and allow you to realize the seriousness of…
Read MoreCT re-evaluates caregiver screening regulations
Nashville gets it right with background checks
background checks on almost a third of schools employees – those who were hired before background screening became a requirement. This issue came to light after almost 10 percent of 600 janitors flunked a background check, when they were being considered for being re-hired. They had been working in public schools and around children, with…
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