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Could You Survive a Social Media Background Check?
November 01, 2011 - by Vivian Luckiewicz As of September 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 14 million people are unemployed. At this rate, an employer can easily receive hundreds of responses to a single job posting. While a large applicant pool certainly gives the employer a wide variety of choices, it also makes background checks an important tool to be able to choose the most qualified candidate. Most job applicants are familiar with being asked to sign a waiver so that the prospective employer can run a credit report, which includes information about an employee's credit-payment history and other credit habits from which the employer might draw conclusions about the applicant. A criminal background check, particularly f...
Checking In On Military Records
November 01, 2011 - by Peg McNichol Raymond Schepansky's April 14 arrest made national news, which drew the attention of veterans from around the country who b...
How To Use Ads In The Background Investigator To Make Your Business Grow
November 01, 2011 - Small ads are the perfect way to promote a small business. And small ads WORK if you know a few simple things about how to write and place them....
Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony?
November 01, 2011 - by Orin S. Kerr Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet. So you could be jailed fo...
Les Rosen's Corner
November 01, 2011 - Two US Senators Voice Privacy Concerns Over Background Check Firm Storing Web Footprints of Consumers for Employment Screening Concerned that s...
Civil Rights, Labor Advocates Demand End To Employment Credit Checks
November 01, 2011 - A coalition of 25 civil rights and labor advocacy groups petitioned one of the nation's largest credit-monitoring firms in October to quit sell...
Most Retailers Rely on Background Checks
November 01, 2011 - Nearly all retailers use background checks to vet potential employees, according to the results of a National Retail Federation survey [1]. &ld...
Steven Brownstein Announces Worldwide Social Networking Background Check Training
November 01, 2011 - Steven Brownstein has announced a menu of events to teach employers and investigators all about Social Networking beginning late in 2011...
Should Companies Use Credit Checks To Screen Job Applicants?
November 01, 2011 - by Adam Cohen, TIME It is a harsh catch-22, particularly in today's moribund economy: many companies routinely rule out job applicants who...
Hot Dog! An Eatery Hires Ex-Offenders
October 01, 2011 - by Esther Cepeda You can't keep a good wiener down. Last month, Felony Franks, which unabashedly hires ex-cons, proved that by getti...
Why Men Don't Do Anything About Being Abused
October 01, 2011 - by Philip Cook Taking on a macho "I can handle it" attitude. Even if you have been hurt much worse on an athletic playing field, t...
Texas Students Sent From Classroom To Courtroom
October 01, 2011 - By Donna St. George In a small courtroom north of Houston, a fourth-grader walked up to the bench with his mother. Too short to see the judg...
Maryland's Online Court Records: Now You See Them, Now You Don't
October 01, 2011 - By Edward Ericson Jr. Users of the state's online court records database (courts.state.md.us/courtrecords.html) saw a new message beginn...
Youngstown, OH Municipal Court Now Online
October 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Youngstown Municipal Court case records are now available online at www.youngstownmunicipalcourt.org. A recent samplin...
Les Rosens' Corner
October 01, 2011 - Class Action Case Shows Importance of Background Screening Firms Following Fair Credit Reporting Act when Reporting Sexual Offender Data A new...
Gay Convictions To Be Wiped From The Records
October 01, 2011 - Those convicted of homosexual crimes could soon apply to have their convictions wiped from the records under a government measure to tackle discrim...
As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared.
September 01, 2011 - By Gary Fields and John R. Emshwiller Eddie Leroy Anderson of Craigmont, Idaho, is a retired logger, a former science teacher and now a federal...
No Surprise Here - Tweeting Can Get You Fired
September 01, 2011 - by Rhodri Marsden The internet has brought about a head-on collision between our personal and professional lives. A neatly presented online CV...
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