Background Check Expert Lester Rosen to Present at Human Resources Meeting on Social Networking Sites
By ESR News Staff Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading international employment screening background checking firm headquartered in the San Francisco area, announced that its president, Lester Rosen, will be presenting before the Mt. Baker SHRM Chapter in Bellingham, WA on August 11, 2010. The Mt. Baker Chapter of SHRM is a chapter of the Society for Human Resource [...]
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New Case from New York Gives Potential Guidance on Issue of Which State Law Applies for Reporting Criminal Records
By Lester Rosen, President of ESR An ongoing issue for employers and background screening firms is the question of what law applies when a criminal record is found in one state impacts an employment decision in another state. Since state reporting laws can vary widely, employers and screening firms are sometimes left without clear guidance if [...]
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Employment Screening Expert Lester Rosen to Present Session on Background Checks at SHRM Annual Conference
By ESR News Staff Employment Screening Expert Lester Rosen, President of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading employment screening firm headquartered in the San Francisco area, will present a session on background checks at the SHRM Annual Conference and Exhibition on June 30, 2010, in San Diego, California. The annual event – the world’s largest human resources conference [...]
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Bill Would Strengthen Accuracy of Employment Background Checks Using FBI Criminal Database
By Les Rosen, President of ESR & Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer Employers that rely on criminal records databases to conduct background checks on potential employees also rely on the accuracy of the information in those databases. Now a federal bill introduced in the House would help to strengthen the accuracy of the Federal Bureau of [...]
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Credit Reporting Agency Fights to Preserve Use of Credit Checks during Employment Background Checks
By Lester Rosen, President of ESR & Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer With 15 million workers currently unemployed according to recent Department of Labor statistics, it has been argued that job applicants risk getting caught in a “Catch-22” situation where they have bad credit because they cannot get jobs but cannot get jobs because they have [...]
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Background Check Expert Lester Rosen Presents Webinar on How Social Media Use During Employment Screening Can Trigger Privacy Lawsuits
By Les Rosen, Employment Screening Resources Lester Rosen, President of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading international employment screening background check firm headquartered in the San Francisco area, will present a national webinar for a leading business information site on employment screening on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST. The webinar [...]
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National Criminal Databases Always Work On TV Crime Dramas, Not Always In Real Life
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer According to popular TV crime dramas, today’s investigators – along with old fashioned gut instincts – use all technology at their disposal when it comes to tracking down and arresting the bad guys. One such technological advantage is a centrally located national computer database containing all past criminal records of [...]
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Background Check Expert Lester Rosen To Present at National Webinar on the Use of the Internet, Facebook and Social Networking sites to Screen Job Applicants
By Jared Callahan, Employment Screening Resources Employment Screening Resources, a leading international employment screening background checking firm headquartered in the San Francisco area, announced that its president, Lester Rosen, will be presenting a national webinar on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 on “Screening Applicants Using Social Networking Sites: Legal or Liability? The webinar is sponsored by Lorman Education Services, [...]
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Employment Screening Resources quoted in article on MSNBC on credit reports
An article in MSNBC examining the use of credit reports and employment quoted Employment Screening Resources President Lester Rosen on how credit reports are used in screening. The article concerned the current controversy over the use of credit reports and the suggestion that in a recession, that credit reports can harm job applicants. See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35512038/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/ ESR was [...]
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Copy of genuine fake diploma and transcripts
In a previous blog, Employment Screening Resources recounted how its president’s own dog, a Border Collie named Gypsy Rose, received a college degree complete with very genuine looking transcripts in 2005 (http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1282/genuine-fake-diplomas-on-the-rise) As noted in the blog, “the author’s dog received a very genuine-looking diploma in business administration in 2005 purportedly issued by the University of [...]
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