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...
We started last week explaining what it means to be Consumer Reporting Agency and examining credit protection. Here’s a snapshot of what we learned: * A company is a CRA if it assembles and evaluates consumer report information and provides those reports to third...
Check out what the following blogs had to say about HR trends, news and more. Below is a list of our top five favorite posts from this week. Check back every Friday for five more!1. If Great Talent Walked Through Your Door, Would You Recognize It?Facebook made a big...
By law, a company is a “consumer reporting agency” if it assembles and evaluates consumer report information and provides those reports to third parties, for monetary purposes. Therefore, any business that uses consumer reports for employment purposes has to comply...
Look closely at this picture. Notice anything, or more accurately, anyone familiar?In a not-so-surprising move, Edward Snowden appeared via satellite robot (middle and far right screen) from somewhere in Russia at yesterday’s 2014 TED conference in Vancouver, reports...
