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A buzzy new article making waves on the internet claims that businesses need to adopt more creative and flexible perks to attract quality millenial employees. The author says flexible work time, working from home, free meals, and relaxed dress codes are some things...
Your employment history stretches a couple of decades and it includes at least one job you got canned from and a too-short stint at another company. Do you need to include these on that lengthy employment history section on most applications? Does a background check...
A recent collision between a truck driver and an Amtrak train in North Carolina is shedding light on how big rig drivers are screened for duty. ICYMI, the collision happened in early March when a tractor-trailer got stuck on the tracks while trying to make a turn. The...
Many of us applying for jobs routinely sign off on the paperwork to grant background checks. But how many of us actually follow up and request to read the results? After reading this story, you’re never going to pass up that chance again. A screening company and...
This is an interesting problem to have: You want to hire people. You’re a government entity. You sit on a border with another state. Your applicants come from both states. Your current background check system only examines your home state’s records. What do you do? If...
