Personal Background Check

Prepare For Your Pre-Employment Screening

Personal Pre Employment Background Check

I’ve written a lot about employers protecting themselves (and their employees) by doing background checks, and I recently saw an interesting article in the Los Angeles Times about how to prepare for it. First of all, it’s a foregone conclusion anymore that a potential employer is going to do a background check on you.  As [...]

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Criminal Background Checks Are Dream Killers

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Recently, James Stewart of Fort Scott, Kansas was in the news because of the faulty nature of some criminal background checks. Like millions of other Americans, James had been out of work for about a year and a half, and no doubt was becoming desperate. Believe me, I am also well aware of the dreadful empty [...]

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Employment Screening May Be Messing With Your Job Outlook

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Do you have all the required skills and references for a job, but are not being hired for employment anywhere? I recently read an article on such an incident by SYS-CON MEDIA, and was impressed with how simply a situation like this can be cleared up, but also how negatively it can affect your job [...]

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Want to Protect Your Privacy? Do a Personal Background Check

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As part of ongoing expansion of BestBackgroundChecks.com, we recently ran a basic background check on a new writer / researcher. This is not only to vet the contractor, but is also part of the continuous testing process. And, if you have never seen what is on an employment background check, you would be surprised at [...]

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How To Handle a DUI in Your Job Search

If you are one of the many people who has received a DUI or DWI in your lifetime, there’s no doubt your chances of employment are going to be affected. However, if you have lived a clean life since being convicted, the situation isn’t as bad as you might think. Suzanne Lucas, a human resources [...]

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