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Background Screening: If you want a proper background screening done, ask a teenager
Student journalists at a high-school newspaper in Kansas had a bad feeling when they looked at the CV of their school’s new principal who had just...
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The FBI uses fingerprints to do continual screening of workers in sensitive jobs
The FBI is using fingerprint technology to help school districts, airports, and other civilian organizations employing people in sensitive jobs, to...
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European companies must restrict use of social media in screening job applicants
A European Union data-protection panel is placing conditions on corporate HR executives who want to look into job seekers’ social-media accounts...
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More companies do post-hire “continuous screening” of employees
While 99% of businesses perform background checks on prospective employees before hiring them, just under 25% continue to screen them once they’re in...
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Enforcing judgments in a “borderless world” is no easy feat after litigation
Companies and individuals anticipating a battle to collect what they’re owed by adversaries should envision their fight as being divided into three...
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Finding red flags is useless if the rules prevent you from taking action
The pilot of a hot-air balloon that crashed in Texas, killing 15 passengers and himself, was a walking red flag. Alfred “Skip” Nichols had been...
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A lesson in avoiding racial bias in background screening
The U.S. Census Bureau is taking steps to prevent racial bias in the hiring of hundreds of thousands of census-takers in the upcoming 2020 poll of...
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Take care doing due diligence on foreign officials — especially when you’re still in their country
Recent events in the small oil-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea illustrate the potential dilemmas for representatives of global companies trying to...
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Africa is a hotspot for CV lying: background-screening firm
While Africa’s economy is one of the world’s fastest-growing, the continent is also a center of rampant CV fraud, a South Africa-based...
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Strict background screening leaves some poor and minority people unemployable
Lawyers representing low-income people are stepping up their argument that an increasingly strict approach to background screening for job candidates...