Tag Archive for: background screening

WHO ARE YOU… NOW?

When Continuous Screening Makes Sense One of the growing trends in HR is the policy of continuous screening of employees. Continuous screening, or post-hire monitoring as it’s sometimes called, is the act of periodic checks to assure that employees remain reliable and the company stays safe. As the name suggests, continuous screening means employees must […]

A BRAVE NEW YEAR: What Responsible Hiring Means in 2017

Happy New Year! This is the one: the year when everything’s going to click into place. Your company’s going to buzz along like the well-oiled machine you always dreamed of, right? Well, maybe. The problem with new years is that they tend to bring on as many new challenges as fixes. Just when we’ve finally […]

Best wishes for a happy & healthy 2017

From The Hire Authority! Best wishes for a happy & healthy 2017. Start the new year right! Provide a safe and productive workplace and protect your bottom line with a quality employment screening program. Please contact us by phone (508) 230-5901, or email psharkey@hireauth.com, to find out more about what we can do for your company.

FIRST THINGS FIRST: Make Sure They’re Legal

During the presidential campaign this year, we heard a lot of talk about immigrants living in the United States – both legal and illegal. It was a hot topic and even a rallying point on the campaign trail, as “Build the Wall” became a catchphrase. The focus of that catchphrase, of course, was the problem […]

WHAT HUMAN RESOURCES CAN LEARN FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Election Day is fast approaching, and the campaign for the presidency is really heating up. As I write this, the third and final debate between Hillary and the Donald is an hour away, and everybody knows it’s going to be a doozy. Why? Is it because so much is at stake – Supreme Court appointments, […]

DON’T LET FALL HIRING BE YOUR NIGHTMARE

For many people (me included), autumn is the best season. There’s a pleasant nip in the air and the landscape is ablaze with color. The harvest is in, offering a cornucopia of fresh produce from our very own communities. Not surprisingly, early fall is a big season for hiring temporary employees. The work ranges from […]

HIRING A TEACHER? LEARN THIS FIRST.

The dog days of summer are upon us. Here in New England, the mid-August weather is hot and the beach-and-barbecue season is still in full swing. Yet thoughts are starting to drift to the coming school year, too. In a matter of weeks, we’ll be shipping our kids off in school buses and dropping them […]

PROFILES OF BAD HIRES: Some Amusingly Disturbing Stories, and How To Avoid Them

I was in the mood to write something a little lighter than the usual, so I decided to check around the ‘net. It turns out there are a million posts on a million different sites where amusing “bad manager” stories abound. But guess what? There seem to be even more posts about hilarious, jaw-dropping examples […]

THE WHYS AND HOWS OF REFERENCE CHECKS

It’s a brave new world in the realm of hiring. Just like everything else, Human Relations has become computerized, digitalized, and ultimately, impersonalized. Don’t get me wrong: instant access to information via the Internet, and computer records in general, is a wonderful thing. Not only are we able to find facts about a prospect that […]