The answer to this question is EVERY BUSINESS!  Businesses routinely spend thousands, sometimes millions of dollars developing, marketing and growing their brand. However, all those resources could be wasted on one bad hire. There are countless examples of one bad apple tarnishing and in some cases obliterating an entire corporate reputation. In some cases this reputation takes […]

An important factor to any company’s growth is hiring new people.  When you have potential new employees lined up in the hiring process, what do you look for in them? The answer may vary depending on what sort of business you run or help manage. Regardless I believe the two core principles every company looks […]

A joint publication of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Federal Trade Commission – BACKGROUND CHECKS WHAT EMPLOYERS NEED TO KNOW A joint publication of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Federal Trade Commission When making personnel decisions – including hiring, retention, promotion, and reassignment – employers sometimes want to consider the backgrounds […]

Employers are getting tripped up by a little-known law related to background checks, and it’s costing some of them serious time and money. While the general public likely knows little about the FCRA, employers like Whole Foods, Dollar General, and Publix Super Markets are becoming intimately familiar with the law because they are getting sued over […]