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5 More Ways That Job Applicants Try to Game the System
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, we published the Top 5 ways that some applicants try to “game” the system and get around pre-employment background checks (you can read that here). Today, we round out the Top...
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Don’t Facebook Me: Why You Shouldn’t Google During the Recruiting Process
By Laurie Ruettimann Editor’s note: Sometimes, readers ask about past TLNT articles that they have heard about but may have missed. That’s why every Friday, we’re republishing a Classic TLNT post that...
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Are Fewer Employers Using Employment Background Checks?
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) just published an eye-opening study on employers use of employee background checks. The big takeaway that SHRM and other industry writers have chosen to...
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SHRM Background Check Findings: How Survey Results Can Get Twisted
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently released their 2012 survey results on employers’ use of criminal background checks and we wanted to take the time to break down some of their...
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Survey: 50% of All Companies Have Hired Workers With a Criminal Record
A CareerBuilder survey released today says 51 percent of human resources managers report their company has hired workers with a criminal record. It’s an almost impossible-to-believe finding, given the...
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Employment Law Basics: Coping With the Fair Credit Reporting Act
Employment laws can be confusing and downright scary. They don’t have to be. As a public service, from now until my special Halloween webinar Answers to the World’s Scariest Employment Law Questions,...
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“Today’s” Background Check Story: Bad Practices by a Few Hurt Everyone
Last Friday morning, the NBC Today show ran an investigative piece critical of background screening companies. The story gave several examples of egregious mistakes made by some well-known background...
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Social Media Screening: Here’s How to Use it in Your Hiring Decisions
You’ve probably had friends whom you wished would stop using Facebook or Twitter for just five minutes. After all, who needs to see 12 new pictures of someone’s dog every hour, or hear about how so and...
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Proposed Bill Would Ban Credit Checks on Employees and Applicants
By Eric B. Meyer Yesterday, I discussed some pending federal legislation that would expand the FMLA to cover part-time employees. Now, I hear that another bill introduced in the U.S. House of...
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Screening Survey: Qualifications More Important Than Any Criminal Past
Background screening of job candidates is a sign of the times in today’s workplace, but what are hiring managers and HR really getting out of them? This new 2013 survey – Employment Screening Practices...
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Should Employers Ask Candidates for Their Facebook Passwords?
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) which helps individuals protect their right to privacy and prohibits an employer from...
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FTC Warns Background Screeners For Possible Privacy Violations
Editor’s Note: Weekly Wrap is taking the week off to belatedly celebrate Cinco de Mayo. It will return next Friday. The Federal Trade Commission recently sent letters to 10 data broker companies...
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Why You Shouldn’t Judge a Candidate by Their Background Check
Imagine that you have one opening you’re trying to fill, and 16 eager applicants aged 17 to 22 — all with more than adequate skills for the job — awaiting their second interview. Before the interviews...
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Nevada Law Bans Use of Credit Reports in Most Hiring Decisions
This week, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill 127, which prohibits employers from using information found on credit reports to make a hiring decision. This is not an all-out ban for...
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Virginia Cab Company Gets a $10 Million Employment Screening Lesson
Here’s a real head-scratcher: Imagine that you are an employer (LOL, if you’re reading this blog, you probably are), and you get the following criminal rap sheet on a prospective employee. Failure to...
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Are Employers Racist for Conducting Employment Background Checks?
In a recent letter to The Wall Street Journal, EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien took exception to their characterization (Banning Background Checks) that the commission believed that criminal background...
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Weekly Wrap: More Employers Finding Negative Candidate Info Online
A long time ago, in what feels like a galaxy far, far away, I was a young editor at a large daily metropolitan newspaper working as a “systems editor.” What’s that, you ask? Well, it was back near the...
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Court Delays Slowing Background Screening? Here’s What You Can Do
Everyone’s favorite employment background checks are the ones which sail through the process with no hitches — no criminal records or any other adverse information to verify. For the majority of...
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EEOC Loses a Battle In Its War on Background Checks
By Eric B. Meyer Late last year, in this post, I highlighted the six issues that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission prioritized in its Strategic Enforcement Plan. Numero uno is...
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Why It Pays to Always Run a Background Check
The last guy you interviewed looked pretty good. He made eye contact and wore a nice suit. He graduated summa cum laude, his resume says. Plus, you have a good feeling about him, and you’re almost...
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