Archive for November 2014

Social media is one of the greatest sources of information into an applicant’s lives, there is no denying it. Many individuals leave their lives wide open to the public without any privacy settings, so what’s stopping employers from looking up potential applicants and snooping around their social media profiles? Well, it may just be a…

The argument that background checks discriminate against criminals is one of the most lobbied complaints against the industry as a whole. Many say this type of discrimination is not too dissimilar from what plagued African-Americans before the Civil Rights Movement, woman before the 1920’s or any other ethnic, race, gender and/or age groups. The distinction…