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How The Internet Has Changed The Background CheckBackground checks predate the internet by many decades. In the seventeenth centuries and earlier, when people tended to live in the same place over time, a background check might have consisted of a letter of introduction. A new employee or a new friend might have given his or her credentials by presenting a letter from someone credible. In the nineteenth century, greater mobility and larger cities made it harder for people to determine who could be trusted and who should be avoided. It's no surprise, then, that the nineteenth century saw the birth of Sherlock Holmes and the PI...
read more »Avoiding Hiring Employees that are Going to Cost you MoneyThe statistics are nothing short of daunting. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, employee fraud cost the country more than $600 billion in 2003 alone. According to the Department of Commerce, one third of all workers steal from their employers. The same findings suggested that 68.6% of employees who steal do not have criminal records. According to the US Department of Commerce, more than 30% of all business failures can be attributed to bad hiring... read more »
What Exactly Are Criminal Records - And How Are They Used?
A recent arrest in Colorado shows how fallible criminal records searches can be - and why hiring a professional investigator to run a criminal records search is the best option.
When running a criminal background check, if you are searching records only in your state, you may not be getting the whole story.
In July 2006, convicted sex offender Jermaine Vaden was arrested in Aurora, Colorado for assaulting a minor. Vaden was working as a city worker at the time of the incident and had a previous conviction for sex offenses against minors in Oklahoma. The state laws did not require a... read more »
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