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Using Background Checks to Hire and Retain Employees

The most important tool a hiring manager can use to identify and deliver the best employees is a background check. Such a check may include information from multiple sources, including credit reports, employment verifications and criminal record searches. Most employers use a vendor to access this information, but there are some who engage in these searches and verifications themselves.

9 minute read February 01, 2017 at 12:04 AM
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K. Bryance Metheny
Using Background Checks to Hire and Retain Employees

The ability to hire and retain a competent, responsible workforce distinguishes the great human resources managers from the merely mediocre ones.

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