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BRB Publications Releases New Mini Courses for Online Safe Hiring and Pre-Employment Screening Training
New series of mini-courses for Safe Hiring and Employment Screening Background Checks offered by BRB Publications.
Tempe, Arizona (PRWEB) September 28, 2006 -- BRB Publications (BRB), the nation’s premier publisher of sourcebooks used for locating public records, announced it released a new series of mini-courses for the BRB Safe Hiring Certification Training -- the first and only online educational and professional development courses in safe hiring and employment screening background checks.
The four new modules enable users to take and complete smaller installments of the 30-hour intensive course also offered by BRB.
The online course is the first in-depth training and education opportunity aimed at employers, human resource and security professionals, background screeners and anyone responsible for risk management and due diligence in hiring. The full 30-hour course contains 21 self-paced lessons, including a 190-page workbook and study guide and over 300 quiz questions. Each mini-course also includes a workbook and quiz questions. Successful completion of a course leads to a Certificate of Completion, marking a significant professional accomplishment.
The textbook for the course is the “Safe Hiring Manual-The Complete Guide to Keeping Criminals, Terrorists and Imposters Out of Your Workplace," the definitive book on safe hiring and pre-employment screening background checks by attorney Lester S. Rosen. (Facts on Demand Press).
“These courses are aimed at helping employers, hiring professionals and background screening firms exercise due diligence in hiring, and to learn techniques to legally and effectively avoid the legal and financial nightmare associated with a bad hire, ” explained attorney Lester S. Rosen, author of the course. "The willingness to take and complete a professional development course such as this is what distinguishes the professionals from the amateurs."
The modules focus on the following topics:
Module 1--Safe Hiring-The Legal Landscape, including negligent hiring and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
Module 2--The Effective use of the Application, Interview and Reference Checking Processes and other pre- and post-hire tools
Module 3--Pre-employment Screening and Criminal Records
Module 4--The Mechanics of Safe Hiring and Background Checks for Employers
The courses can be utilized as part of a training program for Human Resources, Security, background screening firms or anyone else with hiring responsibilities. They can also serve as part of an on-the-job training requirement. Completing the courses will help employers demonstrate due diligence, minimize risks related to hiring and reduce costs associated with poor hiring. The courses also provide tools and forms necessary to implement a program for cost-effective screening that also helps provide legal protection. The course also offers a self-audit that measures the effectiveness of the current hiring procedures.
Additional topics include selecting and working with screening firms, international background checks, drug testing, preventing workplace violence, terrorist searches, the pros and cons of databases, preventing theft and embezzlement and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
More information about the course is available at: BRB Publications,
About BRB Publications
BRB Publications, Inc is the nation’s premier publisher of sourcebooks used for locating public records. BRB’s books and electronic products point the way to over 26,000 government agencies and 3,500 record vendors that maintain, search for or retrieve public records. More than a directory, the profiles in their products include access procedures & restrictions fees, turn around times, web addresses along with phone numbers and addresses. The books, CD and Internet products are up-to-date, comprehensive and affordable. BRB Publications was recently awarded the 2000 Publisher of the Year by Quality Books and is a past winner of a Product Achievement Award from the Information Industry Association.
Contact:
Mark Sankey,
BRB Publications
PH: 1-800-929-3811
web: www.brbpub.com
or:
Lester S. Rosen
lsr @ ESRcheck.com
This press release was distributed through eMediawire by Human Resources Marketer (HR Marketer: www.HRmarketer.com) on behalf of the company listed above.
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