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Violence in the Workplace – A Growing Concern

Hppy

In contrast, the number of mass workplace shootings that were carried out by former or current employees from 2006 to February 2020 only totalled 13. Employee screening must be kept at an all-time high to ensure that the workplace culture remains psychologically healthy. This works out to an average of about one per year.

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Hiring: 70% of Employers Use Social Media to Screen Candidates

HR Daily Advisor

Before posting pictures of your late-night revelry or complaints about your job on social media, think again—70% of employers use social media to screen candidates before hiring, up significantly from 60% last year and 11% in 2006. Candidate’s screen name was unprofessional: 22%. Candidate lied about an absence: 17%.

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Hiring outlook still strong despite rumors of recession

Business Management Daily

The total outlook score of +20% is the highest recorded since 2006. The agency takes the position that screening out applicants with criminal records may disproportionally harm minority applicants and amount to discrimination against applicants on the basis of race.

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Vetting Dev Candidates for Remote Work from Eastern Europe

Hppy

McKinsey called Eastern Europe the next outsourcing hotspot back in 2006. Businesses should always screen candidates from Eastern Europe. However, vetting candidates for remote work is a bit challenging than screening developers face-to-face. As a result, recruiters need to be extra careful while screening software engineers.

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Employer Use of Social Media as a Screening Tool Increased

HRWatchdog

Sixty percent of employers surveyed by CareerBuilder use these sites to screen candidates, a significant increase from 52 percent last year and only 11 percent in 2006 when this survey was first conducted. Be careful when using social media to screen job candidates. Poor communication skills — 29 percent. Not a member?

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Will 9th Circuit Court Decision Influence Background Check Seven-Year Reporting Rule?

Cisive

The seven-year rule is standard in human resources as part of most background check screening processes. It’s also been a rule that most HR leaders are familiar with in that it has been part of the hiring and screening process for most HR leaders and employers for nearly 20 years.

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Is the latest colonoscopy conclusion “too hot for Quizzify”? (Part One)

Quizzify

That reduction is best described in the context of “Number Needed to Screen.” Were these results to apply to your organization, you would prevent 1 case of colon cancer by screening 455 employees. You'd have to screen a very large multiple of that, to prevent one death.)