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EEOC “Gives the Bird” to American Business Owners & Public

By |May 12th, 2012|

By Kevin Connell, Founder & Chairman, AccuScreen.com

The five-member EEOC Commission is tasked with the job of administering Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and in their most recent meeting on April 25, the Commission itself was battling within itself over why they were even meeting that day to vote on New Guidance on Criminal Background Checks , it […]

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Closing For Memorial Day

By |May 27th, 2011|

We wanted to let you know that we will be closed in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. AccuScreen will resume normal business hours on Tuesday May 31st.

Enjoy the holiday!

Thanks from
The AccuScreen.com Team

 

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Top Seven Resume Lies – Job Rank/Title

By |November 2nd, 2010|

What’s the difference between an Administrative Assistant and a Personal Secretary? Not a lot. Because of the fine line between many job titles, job applicants may feel justified by creatively changing their past job titles to better mesh with a prospective employer’s needs. After all, they had the same job responsibilities, right?
Not exactly.

There […]

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Top 7 Resume Lies – Dates of Employment

By |October 26th, 2010|

AccuScreen creates an annual Top 7 Resume Lies Report. This year we have decided to go one step further and break each resume lie down for you. Over the next few weeks we will be featuring one of the top resume lies for the week.

This weeks lie is “Dates of […]

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Ice Cream Business Learns Importance Of Thorough Employment Check

By |October 5th, 2010|

As one company found out, the importance of employee background screening can protect both customers and the business itself from criminals. An ice cream business based in Ohio has been under a lot of scrutiny after a local news station reported that they employed a sex offender. According to WHIO, on July 21, 2010 a […]

Press Release- AccuScreen "16th Annual Top 7 Resume Lies"

By |September 22nd, 2010|

In A Tough Job Market, Resume Lies Reach New Levels Of Absurdity, Reports AccuScreen.

As job seekers have become more desperate, the number of people lying on resumes and job applications has spiked to 46% according to

AccuScreen’s 16th annual ‘Top 7 Resume Lies’ report.

TAMPA, FL — Resume lies, falsification rings, diploma mills, and […]

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Press Release- AccuScreen “16th Annual Top 7 Resume Lies”

By |September 22nd, 2010|

In A Tough Job Market, Resume Lies Reach New Levels Of Absurdity, Reports AccuScreen.

As job seekers have become more desperate, the number of people lying on resumes and job applications has spiked to 46% according to

AccuScreen’s 16th annual ‘Top 7 Resume Lies’ report.

TAMPA, FL — Resume lies, falsification rings, diploma mills, and […]

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Workplace Violence in a Recession

By |September 20th, 2010|

The 2008 article From the Editor-in-Chief’s Desk: The “Workplace-During-Recession” Reminding Us of Employee Rights and Responsibilities, published by Margaret H. Vickers in the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal states that “many workplaces take on a subtle but definite shift in identity when the R-word (recession) is on the horizon.  However, the outcome of this identity […]

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How Can An Employer Discipline a Time-Waster?

By |September 14th, 2010|

FOUR STEPS TO BETTER DISCIPLINE

Question : I have a long-term employee who ties up the telephone with personal calls. Nothing I say seems to discourage her from continuing to waste her time and my money. How can I handle this? Does the fact that she has worked here for 17 years make termination a […]

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Ask the Expert

By |September 11th, 2010|

I would like to know how other organizations conduct background checks. We use an agency and only check on Felonies for administrative staff. We rely on the applicant to disclose where they may have lived and then we search those counties or states as appropriate.  This process is dependent on the applicant disclosing all places lived […]

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AccuScreen CEO Hosts August 25 Webinar Defining Employee Screening Rights

By |August 22nd, 2010|

Kevin Connell, AccuScreen CEO and proponent of employer hiring rights, will unravel misleading quotes in a recent Associated Press article and clarify employers’ hiring rights in regard to pre-employment background checks.

TAMPA FL / August 23 2010 — Alarmed by the widely published Associated Press article from August 11th with the headline, “Some Job-Screening Tactics Challenged […]

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5 Quick Tips to Taking a Vacation without Worrying about Your Job Security

By |August 14th, 2010|

This week I was in the DC Washington area and did a remote live interview with Fox News Tampa Bay. I wanted to share with you the 5 tips that I shared in the interview. These are tips to keep in mind when taking a vacation to help you prevent worrying about your job […]

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