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Risk Management Solutions In The Gaming Industry

With each new day, there are even more opportunities for internal fraud to jeopardize your casino. To ensure security in the gaming industry, HR professionals must be proactive in identifying the applicants with questionable pasts—but there are services developed to...

Ensuring Safety Within The Railroad Industry

For any industry, safety and security should be of the utmost importance. In the railroad industry, preventative measures such as railroad contractor safety training ensures that contractors at railroad properties are knowledgeable in the necessary Rail and industry...

Improving the Candidate Experience

The term “candidate experience” is sometimes viewed as synonymous with “hiring process”, but, in fact, the two phrases are very different. Hiring process refers to the company’s process of evaluating, interviewing, background screening, and onboarding an applicant,...

Overcoming Talent Acquisition Challenges

HR managers and recruiting staff face many talent acquisition challenges—whether they are losing prospects to other organizations, losing them due to frustration in the hiring process, or selecting them to later realize they were a bad hire. Understanding the...

Preventing Bad Hiring Decisions

The Harvard Business Review reported that up to 80 percent of employee turnover is the direct result of bad hiring. Bad hiring—the selection of an applicant who doesn’t possess the proper credentials or, too often, an applicant who’s past behavior and decisions don’t...

Best Practices for Background Checks in Health Care

When hiring in the health care industry, there are several challenges that must be tackled. First, you, obviously, need to find qualified candidates with the appropriate licenses and/or certifications. Then, you need to perform the appropriate health care background...

Best Practices for Workplace Drug Testing

According to a study published by the U.S Dept. of Justice, 8 percent of full-time employees and 10.2 percent of part-time employees are illicit drug users. Due to this staggering number, 84 percent of companies now require drug testing for employment...

EEOC Guidance on Background Checks

Given that EEOC background check guidelines are geared towards preventing discrimination based on race and national origin, employers must take care when exercising background checks to ensure that they are legal, and effective. According to EEOC guidance on criminal...

U.S. Gun Control: Guns in the Workplace

Amongst all of the debate surrounding Federal Gun Control in the U.S., it is crucial to recognize the risks posed to the workforce, and how those risks can be minimized and mitigated. While national consensus may be hard to derive, the issue of firearms in the...

OSHA Rules for Small Business

Safety should be of the utmost importance to the small business owner. Not only to confirm compliance with the OSHA requirements for small businesses, but also to prevent illness and injury in the workplace—which will inevitably kill employee morale and halt...

Best Practices in Small Business Background Checks

Effective hiring, for small businesses, is achieved by conducting the necessary employment background checks to learn more about the applicant’s history, which could either disqualify them, or confirm their compatibility with your company. Though pre-employment...

Keys to an Effective Onboarding Process

Studies show that nearly half of new employees fail to reach their 18th month.  The Wynhurst Group estimates that the cost of losing an employee in the first year is at least three times salary.  A study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that, of the 6 million...

Best Practices in Background Checks for Contractors

A contractor background check is an important step in the hiring process to ensure that individuals who may have access to secure areas have been appropriately screened. When you are reviewing applicants, consider these contractor screening best practices. What are...

Hiring A New Employee

When your company is screening new applicants, consider these hiring best practices to ensure the background information collected is acquired legally and ethically. When should a company consider an applicant tracking system to manage their hiring efforts? Applicant...

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