Friday, January 18, 2013

Employee Background Checks

Background checks as part of a pre-employment hiring is becoming more common, and necessary than ever before.  If you wait till after the hire, do it immediately afterwards.

Hiring the right candidate for the job is always the top priority. Business hopes that they have made the right hire first time; background checks help significantly with choosing the right person.  The goal from using these checks is to lower the risk of loss and liability to you and your firm.  You want to know that your business is protected as best as possible. 

Your business and you personally are what is at risk, preventative measures can reduce your potential losses and liabilities.  This is not an area to be penny wise and pound foolish.

No background check can eliminate all risk in your hiring, but it can go a long way at minimizing it.  Hiring is a difficult process at best, and the complexity of it relates to the industry and the position.  So to improve your hiring results, lower your risk of loss by fraud or theft, and reduce your liability overall, use background checks as part of your hiring process.  All companies that offer this service provide levels of checks, I have seen them for as little as $10 each.  A small price to pay for such a potential benefit it can deliver.


Coach Michael
Albuquerque NM
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1/18/2013

Friday, January 4, 2013

Old School Meets New School


2013 will be even moreso the year of networking & relationships.  Referral marketing will be more important, and good old fashion leg work and knocking on doors will return as a primary way of marketing ourselves and the business.  It is the year where 'old school' meets 'new school'.  That is not to say that what has been done with Mobil/Social Media marketing will become less important, on the contrary; it is just that this will be the year of the old and the new merging together giving us greater opportunity of success and to move our businesses forward.  Those that can not work the 'old school' methods blended into the new school, well, I am sorry to say that for any of them, this year will be the end of the road.