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Background check errors costing people jobs

Imagine losing out on a job opportunity or being fired from your current job because of a crime you didn’t commit. It can and has happened when mistakes occur in your employee background check.
In an era when background checks are booming throughout America, this is a human error that’s becoming more common.
Raymond Lorenzo is [...]

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Who's checking the background checkers?

Employers are running background checks in record numbers, but what about when the company makes a serious mistake? Who’s checking up on the background check agencies they hire?
In today’s post 9-11 security-obsessed World, a mistake or inaccuracy can easily cost an otherwise qualified person a job.
The employers are hiring private investigation firms to run the [...]

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Employment background checks unreliable

A rapidly growing number of employers are doing them but standards are still lacking. Jessica Smith 19 was confident she would have no trouble getting a retail sales job she applied for, but after management ran a background check, she finds out much to her shock she failed the background check.
A rapsheet full of various [...]

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Exonerated's records not expunged

In the US, over 200 wrongfully convicted people were exonerated, after their convictions were overturned, including a few who were on Death row, yet criminal records continue to show up on their records. Many find it next to impossible to get hired, as criminal convictions surface during routine employee background checks.
You would think if somebody [...]

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criminal records expungement requests on the rise

Since 9-11, background checks have become commonplace. Unfortunately, this phenomenom is costing many good people decent jobs, because of past mistakes they may have made in life. Demand for criminal records expungements are at unprecidented highs.

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