Mar

23

Background checks for small businesses

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The Wall Street Journal has been adapting articles from their forthcoming Small Business Guidebook and publishing them in the paper and on their site. Here’s a powerful paragraph from one of those articles, titled: How to Avoid Hiring a Bad Egg.
Small businesses, unfortunately, are particularly vulnerable to embezzlement and other kinds of employee theft because […]

Mar

15

Criminals at the court

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In Farmington, New Mexico, the job description for a Court Services Coordinator (similar to a probation officer) lists the following. “Certified substance abuse counselor or five (5) years experience in the criminal justice system required.” That usually means “working for a criminal justice agency” not “as a criminal being processed by the system.”
But, it […]

Mar

12

Faked references for a fee

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The American entrepreneur and department store executive, John Wannamaker, once said that “Half of all the money I spend on advertising is wasted. I just don’t know which half.”
Sounds to me like what you face with resumes these days. You know there may be falsehoods mixed in amongst the truth. But it’s hard to tell […]