Tag Archive | "Background Checks"
disturbing drug testing stats revealed
By Vanessa Dennis - TestCountry, a drug testing provider, conducted a survey of 3500 employees on drug testing cheating methods that revealed some disturbing results.
Continue reading...litigation: trust me, it’s coming
Friday, September 12, 2008
By Nick Fishman - Many you have seen the recent CareerBuilder study which concluded that 1 in 5 employers is using Social Networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook as part of their employment background screening process. While untested to date, we are going to see significant negligent hiring and discriminatory hiring practices claims arise from the use of these sites when making employment decisions. Wait until the litigation starts. Trust me, it's coming.
Continue reading...background checks at the olympics
Thursday, August 14, 2008
By Nick Fishman - Rewind to the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996: At approximately 1:20 a.m. as I was walking into my hotel, I thought I heard thunder. We all know what happened next. I was awakened by my boss at around 2:30 a.m. wondering if I was OK.
Continue reading...diploma mill busted. employers disgusted. background screening adjusted?
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By Nick Fishman - Two days ago, the Chicago Tribune reported that a diploma mill based in the state of Washington was busted for selling at least 9,600 fake diplomas to whoever was willing to fork over the green.
Continue reading...background check company demystifies court system
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By Vanessa Dennis - BackgroundNow.com's CEO decides to open their formerly secure site to anyone seeking advice or sources for conducting background checks. Traffic to the site has spiked substantially since they began disclosing this information to the public.
Continue reading...better hiring through … wait for it … handwriting!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Forget about traditional background checks and assessment tests. All you need is a handwriting sample. Or so says Candidate Insight, a company that claims to help employers make better hiring decisions with just two short paragraphs. They promise to reveal hundreds of personality traits never before “available to employers prior to hiring.” Says VP Ryan Vener, [...]
Continue reading...- confessions of a former careerbuilder sales guy
- theladders should stop bait-n-switch tactics
- monstirs sells english are reely good
- monster still really dumb, buys trovix
- jobfox interjects on your behalf
- careerbuilder job app launches on iphones
- vault snags monster exec
- careerbuilder wants you to work at the gap
- sharethis shares share data (e-mail still rules, sorta)
- the slice (8-25-09)
- ax falling hard at careerbuilder? (212)
- theladders should stop bait-n-switch tactics (121)
- grey marketing team – job posting scam (93)
- monstirs sells english are reely good (65)
- a real alternative to job boards (63)
- more job cuts at jobfox (60)
- march: there will be blood (59)
- is jason goldberg killing jobster? (54)
- careerbuilder sales rep’s a real ‘twit’ (54)
- jobing acquires cheezhead (48)
- jobing acquires cheezhead
- jobvite raises $8.2 million
- not your father’s recruiting conference
- 10 reasons why niche sites will survive
- top 5 fastest growing companies in HR
- why niche job sites should band together
- monster’s back-to-school makeover
- the slice (8-25-09)
- a fleeing workforce
- the unconference movement
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