Can an employer refuse to hire someone who passes a background screening if, upon reviewing the applicant’s social networking habits, he or she is deemed to be “not right”? Though the majority companies would assert that they do, in fact, have the power to refuse...
Most employers don’t consider background checking their new hires as being a way to protect their current employees, but that’s a huge outcome of making certain all workers brought into an office have been properly vetted. (It’s also a selling point for potential new...
Just as no two snowflakes are alike, no background screening agencies are the same. They all have their own processes and reputations… and that means it’s critical for you as an employer to find the one that’s going to provide you with: ü Security ü Value ü ...
So you’re not going to background screen your new employees? If that’s the case, chances are good that you’re using one of the excuses below. Before you totally ditch the idea of background checking potential workers, we urge you to read through our feelings on...
If you’re looking for a job AND you’ve been looking for a reason to kick that smoking habit, you just found it. From the press wires comes a story from Toledo, Ohio, of the ProMedica Health System which has announced that, starting on January 1, 2011, it will no...
In America, there are over half a million children waiting to be placed into foster parents’ homes; not surprisingly, agencies that find and support would-be foster parents are constantly looking for people who are willing to open their residences to kids who need...
In Palm Beach, Florida, it was recently discovered that the county had, unbeknownst to the powers-that-be, put a host of undesirable workers on the payroll. Not surprisingly, this has caused an uproar inside and outside of the community. Perhaps the most dreadful...
