Monthly Archives: June 2008

Errors in Background Checks

It is important as an employer to ensure the information on potential applicants is relayed exactly to the company providing you with pre-employment screenings. Typos can result in false positives and potentially prevent you from finding negative information on a potential employee. Something as small as a wrong number in the applicant’s birthday can ...

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Deciding Who to Run Background Checks On When Hiring

Many employers want to conduct background checks on their applicants, but they sometimes consider so many applications it is hard to run pre-employment screenings on all of them and it still remain cost effective. One strategy that can be used is to weed out as many of the candidates as possible with each step ...

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Changes in Business for Owners

Hiring used to be extremely simple and ran on the same trust and understanding of business, based on honesty and a handshake. Times have changed and one can no longer count on a handshake in this highly litigation filled society. Also many employees worked their entire lives for one company, while many employees today are ...

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How Background Checks Benefit Applicants

Many applicants feel that the pre-employment screenings process is an unfair step in which only the potential employer benefits from its use. This is far from the case actually it can be beneficial to the applicant as well. Of course the obvious advantage to the applicant is that all other employees have been through ...

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