The job market got a bucket of good news Thursday showing private sector hiring picking up and new claims for unemployment benefits dropping. Read more…

Ohio lawmakers are looking for ways to ease the hundreds of restrictions blocking felons released from prison from obtaining jobs. They are called “collateral sanctions,” the 800 or so stipulations written into Ohio’s constitution, laws, administrative codes and court rules that keep many former inmates from qualifying for a myriad of jobs.

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Assessing executive talent is usually a long, exhausting process. Several rounds of interviews out of a broad pool of qualified candidates are the norm. Experts agree that once a list of contenders with the specific skill set required are located, there remains the more difficult task of determining work ethic, business aptitude, management skills, corporate fit, and long-term vision.

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From birth to death, a government document is created for almost every major life event; birth certificate, property records, marriage and death certificates. A public record is any document or information a government agency has collected during the process of conducting local, state, or federal governmental business, and they are the main source of information used in background checks. Why are records about public dealings with the government made public? One of the main reasons is to ensure government transparency. The line between Public and Private Records can be a thin one, and the selling and repackaging of these records has become commonplace. Read more…

Standing outside D.C. Superior Court’s blocky mid-century building, you’d never guess the court is a technological leader among its cohorts in the Washington region, particularly if you’ve visited Fairfax County’s “high-tech courtrooms” with wizardry that lets trial attorneys build dazzling visuals in real time. But here’s the difference between D.C. and most of the region’s other courts: When you visit other courthouses to research a case, there’s a good chance you’ll come up empty handed. The files could be anywhere - maybe in a judges’s chambers, maybe not. Your guess is as good as the file clerk’s, who, by the way, is pretty sick of fetching your documents all day. Read more…

Please be sure to stop by and see the Crimcheck.com booth at the 2010 Ohio HR Conference, held at the lovely Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio!

Representatives from our company will be on hand at our booth September 15 - 17, 2010.

Stop by to meet and chat with members of our team during the conference exhibition.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

New Jersey lawmakers are considering legislation that would require background checks for school volunteers.

The bill (A-1019) would require any individual who volunteers to provide service on an unpaid basis in a public school district to undergo a criminal history background check in accordance with the same standards and procedures used to conduct such checks on paid school district employees.
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For James Butler III, the little box on job applications looms large: Have you ever been convicted of a felony? The machinist from Hartford, convicted nearly a decade ago of drug and weapon charges, says he rarely hears back from employers when he checks the dreaded box. Read more…

A new ruling by the state Supreme Court aims to protect the identities of criminal by limiting information the public can access in background searches and court records. Pat Davis with the Bernalillo County district attorney’s office explains researching someone’s criminal history will become difficult, especially if the subject has a common name. Read more…

1) A background check does not involve the wallpaper on your computer.

2) A urine test does not require studying, just stay away from the funny cigarettes, poppy seed muffins and your neighbors meth lab, you should be fine.

3) If a crime you were involved with involves a helicopter chase and has been seen on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, don’t bother applying.

4) If you have ever walked into a strange house and Chris Hansen pops out of a room asking you to sit down, you probably shouldn’t apply for the job.

5) If in order to talk to the interviewer you need a “few stiff shots of liquid courage”, you should probably consider other options.

6) If you have a tendency to wear a trench coat and nothing else underneath, you might be better off as a carnival worker.

7) If you feel the need to be “packing heat” when applying at Chuck E. Cheeses, maybe consider another line of work.

8 ) If you were fired for threatening customer’s family pets while working as a bill collector, you may not want to use that company as a professional reference.

9) If you like the challenge of zipping through a school zone at 70 MPH without hitting a student, applying as a delivery driver may not be a good idea.

10) If you are a criminal applying for a job, hope that the company you are applying with doesn’t use Crimcheck.com.