Attorney and safe hiring expert Lester Rosen, CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present the webinar ‘Caution Advised: Complying with Federal and California Law for Pre-employment Screening and How to Avoid Pitfalls and Traps’ on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM PST. The webinar is the last of four sessions in ‘A Guide to the Essentials of Safe Hiring eProgram Series’ presented for the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA). For more information, visit: https://m360.nchra.org/event.aspx?eventID=38882&instance=0. (more…)

With interest in social media background checks skyrocketing lately, including a new study claiming that a quick review of Facebook profiles of job applicants can predict future job success, Attorney and safe hiring expert Lester Rosen, CEO of nationwide background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present the webinar “Using the Internet and Social Networking Sites for Employment Screening: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on Thursday, March 1, 2012 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM PST to examine the pros and cons of employers using information found online. To register for the webinar, the second of four in ‘A Guide to the Essentials of Safe Hiring eProgram Series’ with the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), visit: http://m360.nchra.org/event.aspx?eventID=38879&instance=0. (more…)

Attorney Lester Rosen, CEO of background check company Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present ‘A Guide to the Essentials of Safe Hiring eProgram Series’ for the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), a series of four webinars offering HR professionals and employers cost-effective and legally compliant techniques to avoid hiring job applicants who are potentially dangerous, unfit, unqualified, or dishonest. The first webinar in the series, ‘An Overview of Background Checks and the Use of Criminal Records,’ takes place on Thursday, February 16, 2012 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM PST. For more information or to register for the webinar series, visit: https://m360.nchra.org/event.aspx?eventID=38879&instance=0. (more…)

Attorney and safe hiring expert Les Rosen, founder and CEO of nationwide background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a seminar titled “Conducting Background Checks Thoroughly and Legally” for the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA) on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM Pacific Time at the NCHRA Training Center at 425 California Street, Suite 500 in San Francisco, CA. To register for the seminar – which qualifies for five General/MCLE Recertification Credits – visit: https://m360.nchra.org/event.aspx?eventID=36957&instance=0. (more…)

With negligent hiring currently one of the fastest growing areas of employment litigation, employers and Human Resources (HR) professionals need to implement legally compliant background screening processes to hire the best employees.

Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a background check firm located in Novato, California that is formally accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS®), has announced its founder and President, Lester Rosen, will present an educational session titled ‘Negligent Hiring and Background Checks: Best Practices and Legal Compliance’ at the Northern California HR Association (NCHRA) HR West® 2011 at the Oakland Convention Center in Oakland, California on Monday, April 11, 2011 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. PST. For more information or to register for the event, visit: http://www.hrwest.org/. (more…)