In search for this week’s topics I stumbled across the blog Workforce. Workforce is an HR blog that covers various topics concerning employers. It is a great resource that provides advice through blog posts, webinars, publications and Q&A from its audience.It was...
I start many of my mornings on Twitter. It’s my favorite news source. Mainly because I know what is in my feed: the perfect mixture of news, educational articles and celebrity gossip.This morning as I scrolled through, it wasn’t George Clooney’s engagement or the...
It’s a question with plenty of murky answers: How many employers run employee background checks?Depending on your source, you’ll get a variety of ‘statistics (although their validity is also a bit murky):Mondaq.com states that 92% of all employers use criminal...
School: a majority of the population spends almost a quarter of their life there and sometimes longer. When you think about that, it’s no wonder that it feels so good to have a college degree. You put 20 + years into that degree, you worked hard – late nights at...
Everyone commits youthful transgressions. Maybe you switched around your neighbor’s lawn ornaments. Or toilet papered a few trees. Innocent fun. But there was that one thing your parents always warned you about – mailboxes. Don’t mess with a mailbox, it’s a federal...
It’s the case in Texas that has everyone talking.Administrators from Hidalgo County, the largest county in the Rio Grande Valley along the southern tip of Texas, are ‘fessing up’ to the lack of criminal background checks for its 3,000 employees.Action 4 News uncovered...
