Nearly 75 percent of small businesses routinely conduct pre-employment background checks as part of their hiring process, according to a recent survey. It’s a step that makes sense. A bad hire can result in innumerable headaches for a business, its owners and its employees. A
As the country’s job market keeps improving, more and more businesses will be hiring employees. When an employer is not careful, recruiting the wrong staff can be costly for a company. Here are three errors to avoid. 1. Not Verifying Credentials Due to time constraints or other
Hiring the wrong person can be costly. Employers who conduct thorough background checks reduce the likelihood of hiring someone whose personality causes problems in the workplace. Self-centeredness, a personality trait known in the field of psychology as “narcissism,” commonly causes so much irritation that coworkers
Computer hackers keep coming up with new ways to spread their malware. The latest ploy used the resume-posting site CareerBuilder as a launching platform to get their programs into the computers and onto the servers of various companies looking for employees through that site. It’s
The omnipresence of social media makes it easy for contemporary employers to develop impressions of candidates without ever meeting them face to face. One of the advantages of using social media is that it helps employers weed out candidates who are not a match and