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• Hiring People You Won't Have to Fire

  February 28, 2014 - I should have fired my first employee long before I did. If there was one area where my inexperience really showed when I started running my own business it was in not firing people who should have been let go. I naively believed that, more or less, everyone was like me and my friends -- ambitious, hardworking, friendly, and ethical. And, in fact, most people are like that, but not everyone. Even so, when I came across an employee who wasn't, rather than firing him or her, I lost sleep over it, procrastinated and made excuses for not doing it. Today, I'm much different. If I find an employee who can't meet performance expectations, but it still a quality individual, I make the assumption that we made a mistake...

• Big Data Says You Should Hire Criminals

  February 26, 2014 - Evolv, a leader in big data workforce optimization, has discovered that criminals can make better employees than anyone else. Evolv calculates...

• Firefighter Says Background System Abused

  February 20, 2014 - A top official in the Buffalo Fire Department is accused of misusing the county’s criminal background check system to improperly snoop on at...

• Criminal record searches fall short and all that stuff

  February 18, 2014 - Bet you don't know how at least a third of your USA domestic and international searches are being done. Bet that that you probably don't kn...

• Top Executive at Security-Check Firm USIS Resigns

  February 14, 2014 - A top executive at the company that performed the most recent background check of former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden resigned after he w...

• OPM brings background investigation reviews in-house

  February 11, 2014 - The Office of Personnel Management has decided that final quality reviews for background investigations will be conducted by government employees &...

• Craig Caddell's Verification Tips

  February 04, 2014 - Finding Good Contact Information Job applicants are notorious for providing incorrect contact information for past employers. Some creative app...

• EEOC's criminal background check policy under fire

  February 03, 2014 - Race discrimination, federal administrative power, state law, and the right of a private company to choose its employees are colliding in a battle...

• Senior Managers Are The Worst Information Security Offenders

  January 29, 2014 - Senior managers pose a major security risk for companies, according to a Stroz Friedberg nationwide survey of 764 information workers. The surv...

• Justice Department says USIS submitted 665,000 incomplete background checks

  January 28, 2014 - Lawmakers said that new details emerging from the Justice Department’s civil case against a leading company that conducts security background...

• Oregon Sex Offender List Criticised

  January 22, 2014 - Oregon has, per capita, more registered sex offenders than all but one other state. It also has one of the worst records in the country for followi...

• Public records battle over sex offenders forms attracts attention

  January 20, 2014 - A case making its way through the Benton County (Washington) Superior Court may bring some clarity to whether information about low-level sex offen...

• Let's Check Out the 2013 Corporate Rap Sheet, Shall We?

  January 15, 2014 - The ongoing corporate crime wave showed no signs of abating in 2013. Large companies continued to break the law, violate regulations and otherwise...

• Craig Cadell's Verification Tips

  January 13, 2014 - Rather than a tip for this publication, I wanted to offer a brief reflection on integrity from a verifier’s perspective. Catching and fig...

• Snapchat Leaked: Was Your Phone Number Posted Online?

  January 10, 2014 - While people around the world were celebrating the New Year, many were sending pictures and videos of their parties via Snapchat, a popular app tha...

• Stateville Intake center the focus of Illinois

  January 08, 2014 - Inside what could be Illinois’ most important correctional facility — its main inmate intake center — hundreds of newly convicted...

• Derek Hinton: "In My Opinion"

  January 08, 2014 - Credit Bureau Audits and Accreditation     The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued their guidance on their audits of the cred...

• Steven Brownstein Continues To Visit Courts In 2014

  January 06, 2014 - Steven Brownstein is probably the most traveled to courts and judiciaries in history. If you're not using Straightline International you ar...