In the least scientific poll ever taken, we asked more than a dozen people at West Acres Mall in Fargo, North Dakota this question:“Have you ever checked the credentials of your tax preparer?”Like many Americans, the answer was a resounding, “NO.”“I use a guy I went...
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...
Welcome to the final post of our 3-part series analyzing a joint effort by the EEOC and FTC to give employers and employees the scoop on background checks.We started with a breakdown of the entire document that was co-written by the government agencies and released in...
Big Data – I’ve been seeing this term pop up a lot lately. You could almost call it an HR trend. But what is it? How does it help recruiters? Does it actually help recruiters? What are the pros and cons? These are questions I am going to answer in today’s post....
This week we’re doing an analysis of the recent EEOC and FTC joint written effort to better inform employers and applicants to the rules and regulations of background screening for employment purposes.If you need a refresher, click on this post for the basic concept...
Someone forgot to tell March that it was supposed to go out like a lamb. The old saying, “If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb,” has filtered down through generations of folks who, for various reasons according to the Farmers’ Almanac, believe...
