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Education Verification: Why it Should Become a Part of Your Hiring Process

When making a hiring decision, there are often many factors that you consider. You consider how the candidate presented himself– was he polite and dressed professionally? You recall how the candidate answered a particularly challenging interview question. You consider his employment history and the feedback his professional references provided. Then you note the particularly impressive […]

Non-Compete Clauses and Employment Verification

Often, employers use employment verification to check worker eligibility, history, and other basic information. More in-depth verification, like checking for a non-compete clause in the employee’s work history, may not be considered. After all, non-compete clauses have historically been the realm of high-skill jobs; if you’re hiring a camp counselor or hair stylist, you don’t […]

New Jersey Joins “Ban the Box” Movement 0 inShare New Jersey Joins “Ban the Box” Movement

On Monday, Governor Chris Christie signed the Opportunity to Compete Act (S2124/A1999) into law, which is designed to restrict employers from asking about prior criminal convictions on job applications.  Christie enthusiastically hailed New Jersey as “a state that believes every life is precious” and “everyone deserves a second chance . . . Today, we’re banning […]

Verifications: Are They Stressful?

The very process of getting a job virtually always entails a verifications process at some point. The employer has to confirm that the person being considered for hire is telling the truth about everything on the application that they have submitted. Some people find this process very stressful, but perhaps they should not be so uptight […]

California – Ban the Box As of July 1, 2014

Excerpted from lcwlegal.com Assembly Bill 218 (“AB 218”), codified as Labor Code section 432.9, goes into effect in just over a week on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, and will have a significant impact on a public agency’s ability to initially use criminal convictions in the hiring processes before a determination has been made regarding whether […]

What Due Diligence Looks Like

Those who are seeking employment at the moment should have some idea of what to expect when it comes to due diligence. This is an important subject because of the processes that employees and employers have to go through in order to get through the hiring process. Where Due Diligence Often Begins The first step in […]

Diploma Mills Create a Hazard for Hapless Employers

When you consider all of the hard work that goes into a genuine degree, it is infuriating to know that there are diploma mills all over the Internet. For just a few dollars, an applicant can produce impressive credentials for the job––maybe even your opening. Fake degrees constitute a multimillion dollar industry. Even a cursory Google search […]