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
- monstirs sells english are reely good
- theladders should stop bait-n-switch tactics
- monster still really dumb, buys trovix
- sharethis shares share data (e-mail still rules, sorta)
- careerbuilder job app launches on iphones
- vault snags monster exec
- careerbuilder wants you to work at the gap
- jobfox interjects on your behalf
- richard castellini interview (part one)
- ax falling hard at careerbuilder? (212)
- theladders should stop bait-n-switch tactics (118)
- grey marketing team - job posting scam (93)
- monstirs sells english are reely good (64)
- a real alternative to job boards (62)
- more job cuts at jobfox (59)
- march: there will be blood (59)
- is jason goldberg killing jobster? (54)
- careerbuilder sales rep’s a real ‘twit’ (53)
- monster’s top sales rep jumping ship too? (39)
- (career)building a social media brand
- hotjobs on fire
- simply hired now in five new countries
- the mystery of the social media summit
- a dark day for monster
- the slice (6-23-09)
- hotjobs introduces pay per candidate
- fire up your career
- unlocking the vault
- wanted: a sense of urgency for students
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