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Counting Down 2014 – ActiveCare’s Most Popular Post
The countdown continues. We’re blazing through our top three most popular posts to help us close out 2014 and welcome the New Year with grace and gusto. We don’t know about you, but we feel great things are about to come and we want you to be as inspired and ready for...
Best Posts of 2014: Our Top Three
The start of a New Year allows us fresh beginnings, hope for change, or the calmness that comes with accepting ones path.But it also brings with it reflection on the previous year. You can’t help but think about those 365 days and what you did with them.For Active...
Counting Down 2014: ActiveCare’s Second Most Popular Blog Post
This week we’re celebrating the New Year by counting down the three most popular ActiveCare blog posts of 2014.As is common in the blogosphere, our third most popular post and today’s entry for second place, are both tied to hot headlines that grabbed the nation’s...
Has Your Doctor Been Background Checked? The Shocking Truth.
Attorneys do it.Accountants do it.Teachers do it.Truck drivers do it.You can add social workers, nurses, and therapists to the list, too.But you may be shocked to learn that not every doctor does it. In fact, 13 states don’t even require physicians be background...
What Companies and CEO’s Can Learn From the Bill Cosby Scandal
Bill Cosby is everywhere in the news these days for all the wrong reasons. The list of women accusing Cosby of drugging and raping them is growing almost daily. The lessons we can learn and extrapolate from the entire sad situation are plentiful but there is one angle...
5 Things We Learn From WA’s Universal Background Checks For Gun Owners
Gun control is a sizzling topic in the United States, but for all the heat behind the arguments, only one state braved the backlash and put a gun control measure on its November ballot. Initiative 594, approved by 59% of voters, expands background check requirements...
Four Ways to Turn an Angry Employee into a Good Employee
How are your resolutions coming? The New Year is just around the corner and chances are last year’s resolutions are but a distant memory. Good! That means there’s room for some new ones!! Even though January is often a bleak month (at least weather wise) for many...
5 Ways Seasonal Employees Can Land Full-Time Positions
Seasonal hiring is going bananas this year. So far, this consulting firm says national retailers are on tap to bring on roughly 700,000 workers to handle the holiday swell; that is about 200,000 more people than just two years ago! That is great news for thousands of...
Cyber Monday Meets Seasonal Hiring
Tick tock. Tick tock. It’s hard to believe but the race is on to wrap up your holiday shopping. Christmas is in, gulp…. 24 days!Black Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season (the jury is still out on whether or not this year’s version was a retail success) but...
FCRA Infringement – What Employers Need to Know About Adverse Action
Have you ever passed on a candidate because of a low credit score and didn’t tell the person? Have you ever used a social media screen as a legitimate background check? Have you ever screened a candidate without their consent? If you answered yes to any of these...