http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblogBackground Checks Pre-Employment ScreeningenTue, 07 Sep 2010 10:28:20 PDTBusinessnoBackground Checks Pre-Employment Screeninghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/hB62rB9eLJw/Check out our latest article which helps HR professionals learn the value of screening their contingent workforce. “Screening Your Contingent Workforce: What HR Professionals Should Know” is an eye-opening white paper from EmployeeScreenIQ. It examines the dangers of hiring contract workers without performing the same background checks as on permanent employees. Once small in number, contract [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/employment-screening-for-your-contingent-workforce-what-hr-professionals-should-know/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/ILlQOBIJRq0/EmployeeScreenIQ is an official sponsor of this Fall’s ERE Expo in Hollywood, Florida October 26-28, 2010.  Please stop by, say hello and rap about employment background checks (or anything else)  if you plan to be there. Thousands of recruiting leaders have chosen to attend ERE Expo to learn about new strategies, tactics and tools to [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/employeescreeniq-to-sponsor-ere-fall-expo-2010/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/Hk43pwgh6S0/A Cleveland-area  woman has been sentenced to a four year suspended jail term and ordered to pay over $740,000 after pleading guilty to forging employee criminal background checks for her healthcare business in order to hide workers’ criminal records. See article below from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 47-year-old Cleveland Heights woman [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/forging-criminal-background-checks-can-be-costly/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/fU9c4DI8KlE/Here’s an interesting take on how a company can use terminated employee’s resume lies as a defense against claims of discrimination and, or retaliation. Check out this post by labor and employment attorney Jeffrey T. Rosenberg. The only catch seems to be that if you knew about the resume fraud after conducting an employment background [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/resume-fraud-could-be-defense-against-discrimination-claims/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/ERAp-hkd4uA/We are pleased to announce that EmployeeScreenIQ has earned recognition as a 2010 Weatherhead 100 Award Winner for being one of the 100 fastest growing companies in Northeast Ohio. We have achieved this distinction for the 6th consecutive year. Actual rankings will be released in December. Since 1987, the Weatherhead 100 has showcased the fastest [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/employeescreeniq-named-to-list-of-fastest-growing-companies-in-ne-ohio/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/2c92xuW7IAw/There have been a myriad of questions that have arise since Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick signed into law new reforms to the Commonwealth’s Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) law that will have a significant impact on the state’s employers who conduct criminal background checks. To sort through the mess, we enlisted the help of Seyfarth [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/pam-devata-on-cori-reform-and-employment-background-checks-2/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/CeqEmKnlGQM/Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill that takes away the right of the state’s employers to review a job candidate’s credit report as part of the employment screening process. Or does it? The new law will officially take affect on January 1, 2011, but is sure to create confusion because while it bans the [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/podcast-on-illinois-restrictions-of-employment-credit-reports/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/gX0U1Jrs2aI/EmployeeScreenIQ’s Jason B. Morris will be speaking at the HR Florida State Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort on August 31, 2010 (7am est). Technology has dramatically changed the way we compete for talent and screen prospective employees, but nothing approaches the impact of social networking. With the widespread [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/employeescreeniqs-jason-morris-to-speak-at-hr-florida-conference/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/e5r2p8QZ6vU/TLNT’s John Hollon called me a couple weeks ago for my thoughts on an article published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that suggested a recent surge in employment drug testing could be a positive sign for employment growth. He wanted to know if I thought this was in fact an accurate indicator and if we were [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/is-increase-in-drug-testing-a-good-barometer-for-job-growth/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Employeescreeniq--Blog/~3/jJccv7FPfPM/I saw this on our local NBC news affiliate last night.  It appears that applicants for open positions at Starbucks at Cleveland Hopkins Airport were having their identities stolen.  Candidates were submitting their job applications which included their Social Security Numbers.  An employee was using that Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to compromise their identities while [...]http://www.employeescreen.com/iqblog/job-applications-used-in-identity-theft-at-starbucks/nonadult