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.

Never mind you can tell people exactly what you are doing all day long on twitter, they now have an option that can give your location on Google maps. It’s sort of like stalking in reverse. One day you may even be arrested for tweeting too much and driving people nuts. The charge your honor is reverse stalking via twitter. We arrested the subject while shopping and she was caught with an iPhone in one hand and a can of cream corn in the other. She nearly killed 2 stock boys and an elderly woman with her shopping cart.
This actually leads me to another point. What if your boss follows you on twitter? What if your creepy ex-boyfriend follows you? Granted, you can just turn on the general area feature like the town, but it can also pinpoint your exact location. What information are you or even worse your kids giving out? I can see trouble ahead with this. What’s your opinion?

Ted moss Discusses Free Criminal Records

So you want free criminal record checks huh? Well in this video I explain why that can be disappointing and what to do about it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGOyTRnBS3g

Do you use social media sites such as Facebook or Myspace to conduct background checks. If so you might be violating Federal Law. To find out more and down load my free report “Social Media Employment Screening, what harm is it?”

Crimcheck.com, the leading provider of background checks and employment screening has agreed to conduct free background checks for organizations placing Haitian refugees into US citizens’ homes. Crimcheck.com has agreed to conduct a criminal and sexual offender background check on each adult living in the home to ensure they are able caretakers of the refugees. Civic organizations placing the refugees can contact Crimcheck.com to obtain these services free of charge. This check will help ensure that the refugees will not be taken advantage of while staying here in the US.

Click here to start running free background checks.

If you have any further questions, please contact Ryan Sherman at 877-992-4325 or email rsherman@crimcheck.com for details.

A question I am often asked by prospective clients is, “So what best practices do you employ?” Well that’s a pretty easy answer if you have any experience in the employment screening industry. The industry politically correct answer is, “Oh well we employ standards as recognized by NAPBS (National Association of Professional Background Screeners) and ASIS International. While this is true and an acceptable answer, a better question might be, “What are your better practices?” By this I mean ask the obvious question, what makes you better? Read more…

Sure, you screened for criminal records at the time of hire, but what has happened lately? Risk Management does not stop after the employee is hired, and an annual employee background check can usually be processed for much less cost than the initial screen. Read more…

In recent news, the State of Ohio has partnered with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to provide them with a fingerprint scanning machine for background checks.  This new initiative allowed Ohio BCI to receive a $300,000.00 grant from the federal government to train the local offices as well as provide the equipment.  While on the surface, this appears to be a great idea, there are many pitfalls with only utilizing a fingerprint scan as a background check.

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Last week I wrote about an unfortunate incident where a person was fired over Facebook for an unruly update. Well forget that for a while because your unruly update could lead to your house getting robbed (via Mashable):

The concept is backed up by recent statistics from British insurance and investment management firm Legal & General, whose survey found nearly 40% of social networking users share holiday plans on sites like Facebook and Twitter. They also found about 13% of Facebook users and 92% of Twitter users tend to accept friend requests or follows without checking up on the source. Read more…

I’ve heard many things that would surprise you about what employees say and do to their bosses, especially after work hours. I had a friend once tell me that they were at a bar where this person was telling this story about how he continued to sabotage his boss at work and that it was finally beginning to pay off. When the guy telling the story mentioned where he worked, it wasn’t too long until it got back to me.

Yes, HR people have friends.

But this is beyond stupid. Ranting about your boss on Facebook when he is connected with you on there? Check out this story:

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