Why Screening Candidates Using Google Searches Is Not Risk Free
Although you can learn a lot from a Google search, it’s risky to rely on it for an employee background screening. Here are the dangers and drawbacks.
Safe Hiring Practices: What Employers Should Include in their Hiring Overview Document
Safety in the workplace is a top priority. In addition to the well-being of your staff, safety includes maintaining the company’s financial goals, integrity, ethics and culture. When conducting a pre-employment background check, communicating your company’s goals and safe hiring practices to prospective employees can help reduce the risk of a regrettable hiring decision. In …
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The Importance of Screening Potential Health Care Staff
Every time a patient visits your facility, they and their family members place their trust in your staff. With health care workers in short supply and high demand, it is tempting to welcome personable prospective staff members who look good on paper. Without a thorough healthcare professional screening, however, you may put your patients at …
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Registered Sex-Offender & BP Clean-Up Worker Accused of Raping Colleague
Rundy Charles Robertson supervised a group of people who were hired to clean up oil from the beaches of Pascagoula, Mississippi. One day in June he offered one of his workers a ride home, then asked to use the restroom in her motel room. When he emerged from the bathroom, the victim states he raped …
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A New Law Requires More Stringent Screening for Florida Care Providers
According to a new Florida law, which will take effect August 1, employees of day care centers, assisted living facilities, home health care agencies and others working with vulnerable adults and children will have to pass a nationwide background check before they can begin working. The law was passed unanimously by the Florida Legislature. Sun …
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Avoiding Diploma Mills and Fake Online Degrees
West Linn’s Mayor, Patty Galle, resigned Friday after it was discovered that she lied about receiving a degree in English from a “diploma mill,” Redding University. She claimed she received the degree in 1973, yet Redding University was not established until 2003. Investigators have seized a receipt which shows she purchased the diploma on February 12 …
Mass murderer’s violent past missed by regional database background check
University of Alabama-Huntsville neurobiology professor Amy Bishop shot six of her colleagues on Friday, killing three. Â It appears this truly appalling situation might have been avoided if the University had protected itself with the services of a professional background screening company. The Christian Science Monitor reported today that Bishop had a violent past of which …
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New background screening iPhone apps are negligent and harmful
There are new apps for the iPhone, Droid and Blackberry that have personally gotten me all fired up. With these apps, people are entitled to “free background checks”, or unlimited searches for a monthly fee. It’s companies like these that harm the integrity and reputation of all legitimate background companies. There is no such thing as a “free …
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OUR VIEW: Background checks must be thorough, or else …
A recently filed civil lawsuit alleges that a Culpeper man working as a counselor had inappropriate sexual contact with a minor and that he had fraudulent credentials that left him unqualified for the job. Records show he has an arrest history that includes convictions for being drunk in public, making threats over the phone and …
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The Criminal At Your Door
According to an investigation conducted by a local journalist, convicted criminals could be passing undetected through residents’ front doors as sub-contractors. Current laws do not require companies to perform criminal background checks on people in this position. At the same time, subcontractors are widely used because of the costs saved to the companies. Read the …