Protect Your Business with a Safe Hiring Program

The Safe Hiring Manuel goes far beyond the typical reference-checking handbook and provides a comprehensive blueprint for developing a Safe Hiring Program. Over 30 chapters detail the steps to not only verify education and past work history, but also investigate criminal records, identify terrorists, perform international background checks and update your current program to comply with recent changes involving the EEOC, FCRA, Patriot Act and other legal concerns. The authors background as an attorney and owner of a large employment screening firm enables him to provide the insight and experience to write a book that will be of value to all levels of professional screeners, investigators, and business managers.

(PRWEB) June 19, 2005 -- Ask any labor lawyer, human resource manager or security professional whether an employer should engage in pre-employment screening. There will be but one response . . . its an absolute necessity!

Consider these startling statistics:

· 30% of all business failures are due to employee theft and related forms of dishonesty.

· 51% of all resumes, applications and references provided by applicants contain inaccurate information.

· 5% of applicants have had a criminal record in the past 7 years.

· The direct and indirect average cost of employee turnover is equal to 150% of the annual salary.

Employee problems are caused by problem employees! Employers must exercise due diligence in hiring or risk hiring a person with an unacceptable criminal record or false credentials leaving an employer vulnerable to workplace violence, theft, embezzlement, lawsuits and lost productivity.

The best way for employers to avoid bad hires is to institute a Safe Hiring Program as outlined in The Safe Hiring Manual by Lester S. Rosen. The Safe Hiring Manual is a comprehensive blueprint for developing a program for employers, human resource departments, security professionals, staffing professionals, private investigators, labor lawyers anyone concerned about hiring safe and qualified employees.

The Manual details how to exercise due diligence throughout the hiring process, significantly increasing an employers chance of avoiding the financial and legal nightmares of even one bad hiring decision. The Manual will make you an expert at:

· Effective use of applications, interviews and past employer checks as key hiring tools.

· Verify degrees and credentials, and how to legally obtain and use criminal records.

· Legal compliance issues, including the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) as well as EEOC, Patriot Act, Privacy, Sarbanes-Oxley, state law compliance, and other legal concerns.

· In-depth pre-employment background screening and investigative techniques.

· New information on how to identify terrorists and perform international background checks.

· How to audit the effectiveness of your current hiring program.

The Safe Hiring Manual provides all the whys and how-tos" for implementing necessary employment practices that will keep your business safe -- and keep you out of court!

Author Lester S. Rosen is an attorney-at-law and founder of Employment Screening Resources (www.ESRcheck.com), a national pre-employment background screening firm. He is currently co-chair of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS). Facts on Demand Press is an Imprint of BRB Publications, Inc. the nations leading publisher of public record sourcebooks and electronic products.

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