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Employment Screening Resources (ESR) in the News

Employment Screening Resources (ESR) has been featured in numerous national publications.  Here is just a sampling:

ESR featured in SHRM Magazine:

• Backgrounds to the Foreground,  December, 2010 article in HRMagazine by SHRM.  See: http://www.shrm.org/Publications/hrmagazine/EditorialContent/2010/1210/Pages/1210roberts.aspx
• How Deep Can You Probe?  October, 2007 article in HRMagazine by SHRM.  See: http://www.shrm.org/Publications/hrmagazine/editorialcontent/pages/1007sr-zeidner.aspx
• The Five Finger Bonus - In depth article in the October, 2003 HRMagazine by SHRM on employee theft and embezzlement.  See: http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/1003/1003covstory.asp
• Spotting Lies--Article from the October, 2003 HRMagazine by SHRM on why reference checks alone will not stop a firm from hiring bad employees.  See: http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/1003/1003babcock.asp
• Employers can help prevent identify theft in the workplace - From the February 2000 Issue of HR News, HR's leading Newspaper published by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), containing information and quotes  from Les Rosen, president of ESR.
• HR Magazine, the official publication of the Society for Human Resource Management, published a story in the March 2001 issue on outsourcing background checks. ESR is pleased to have been a contributor to the story. See the story here...
• Due Diligence Myths in Background Investigations - Special from SHRM's Employment Law and Legislative Conference—Washington, DC 2011

ESR featured in NAPBS® JOURNAL:

• “Social Media Background Checks Conducted by Consumer Reporting Agencies Subject to Same Fair Credit Reporting Act Rules” By Lester Rosen, Attorney and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) & Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Editor. From NAPBS® JOURNAL for July/August 2011 Page 15).
• “Changes in Background Screening Industry Led to Need for NAPBS Accreditation Program” By Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Editor, Employment Screening Resources (ESR) in NAPBS® JOURNAL for November/December 2011 (Page 12).
• “Accredited Member Spotlight: Employment Screening Resources (ESR)” Interview with Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), who also served as chairperson of the steering committee that founded NAPBS and served as its first co-chair. NAPBS® JOURNAL for November/December 2011 (Page 15).

ESR featured in Security Management Magazine by ASIS:

• How To Avoid a Hiring Mishap, May 2009

ESR featured in Workforce.com:

• The ABC's of Background Screening - Article by Workforce.com summarizing pre-employment screening, including statements from ESR President Les Rosen (Text of article)
• Big, Fast and Easily Bungled - Article from Workforce on how virtually overnight, the Transportation Security Administration had to hire more than 55,000 workers. Quotes form ESR President Les Rosen.  See: http://www.workforce.com/section/06/feature/23/49/38/index.html (Also see article on what various industry experts including ESR President Les Rosen would have done if they were in charge of hiring 55,000 workers).
• Workforce.com quotes ESR President Lester S. Rosen in article "Who are you really hiring" at:
  http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/23/35/80/index.php.
• Workforce.com article "Protecting People and Profits with Background Checks" at: http://www.workforce.com/section/00/feature/23/13/85/

Additional Publications featuring ESR:

• No Background Screening? Call Yourself 'Defendant' - An employer can be sued for negligent hiring if it hires someone who it knew, or should have known, was unfit for the particular job. Lester Rosen, CEO of Employment Screening Resources, addressed this issue at the SHRM Employment Law and Legislative Conference. From HR Daily Advisor.
• California To Restrict Credit Checks In Hiring - ESR Les Rosen comments on KCBS radio about new California law (AB 22) limiting credit report checks by employers.
• 'Those Facebook posts could cost you a job' - Article on Silicon Valley MercuryNews.com containing a quote from Les Rosen, CEO of ESR.
• The Three Due Diligence Myths of Background Screening - Lester Rosen discusses three myths surrounding background checks. From HR Daily Advisor.
• 'Top Ten Trends in Employment Background Screening for 2011' by Lester Rosen published on RecruitingTrends.com
• Background Screening Credentialing Council Recognizes Accredited Companies, a press release from the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS).
• 'How to Run a Credit Check' article from Inc.com contains quotes from Jared Callahan, ESR Director of Client Relations.
• Bank Information Security Podcasts (January 2011) 'Background Checks: Beware Social Media' Podcast with Tom Field on BankInfoSecurity.com
• 'E-Verify Use Increases' - Lester Rosen, CEO of Employment Screening Resources, is quoted in a story on News-Leader.com. 
• Special Report: Legal Precautions Concerning Social Media in the Hiring Process for Health Care Staffing - November 2010 Issue of Jackson & Coker Industry Report, News and Information from the Established Leader in Physician Staffing.
• "Background Checks" Article in November 2010 Issue of The Hospitalist, an Official Publication of The Society of Hospital Medicine. 
• Employers: Don't Let Job Applicants Snow You - Dr. Marty Nemko, the Monster career columnist and publisher of Cool Careers for Dummies, writes about pre-employment screening and ESR.
• Job Sleuths - Article in the San Francisco Business Times concerning pre-employment background screening, February 27, 1998.
• MSNBC Article - "Bad credit sidelines some jobless workers"
• "Background Checks: Best Practices for Financial Institutions" - Interview with Les Rosen, Expert in Employment Screening, on BankInfoSecurity.com  
• SFGate article - "Can you get a job with bad credit? The answer may surprise you."
• Article in Aviation Week - "The Art of Background Checks"
• Carpet Firm Hit With $9.38M Verdict in Murder
  Lester S. Rosen, President of ESR and an attorney at law, testified as an expert witness on safe hiring practice and due diligence in the California court on behalf of the family of a doctor murdered by a carpet cleaner that was hired without any background check. The carpet cleaner was a violent career criminal. This tragic episode demonstrates what can occur when employers just hire any available warm body with no care or effort taken to find out who they are hiring.
• Candidate Seems Unreal?  Investigate - Article in San Francisco Business Times featuring Employment Screening Resources.
• ESR featured in USA Today - "When 'bad' credit stands in the way of a good job" & "Resumé fraud gets slicker and easier"
• ESR featured in the Christian Science Monitor - "The spread of the credit check as civil rights issue"
• ESR featured in Businessweek -"The Trouble with Background Checks"
• ESR featured in US News and World Report --"Should Your Credit Report Cost You a Job?"
• ESR featured in Reuters - Resume Fraud Gets Slicker and Easier

Sample of additional online articles featuring ESR:

• Internet Evolution --article on online background  checks
• The Ladders-articles on background checks:
        http://www.theladders.com/career-advice/background-check-makes-tough-interview-questions
        http://www.theladders.com/career-advice/anatomy-background-check

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