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Five Questions Employers Should Ask Job Applicants in Interviews for Safe Hiring
By Lester Rosen, Employment Screening Resources (ESR) President The job interview, along with being an opportunity to find applicants who are a good fit for a company, is also when employers should perform due diligence and try to identify applicants who may be too dangerous, unqualified, unfit, or dishonest for the position. While employers would…
ESR Releases Free Online Structured Interview Generator Tool Available to Employers, Recruiters and Human Resources
By Lester Rosen, ESR President (Originally posted on HR.Tolbox.com) A new free online tool allows employers to easily create custom interview guides with an interview generator form. One of the problems that face employers of all sizes is preparing for interviews. Most recruiters, human resources professionals and hiring managers are now familiar with the notion…
Background checks and your career
Two recent articles on the leading career site, The Ladders, feature background screening expert Lester Rosen on the role that employment screening may play in a job search. The Ladders is the world’s largest community catering exclusively to the $100k+ job market. According to the articles by author Kevin Fogarty: Recruiters and investigators who conduct…
employment screening and liars at interviews
An article on NPR, “Spotting Lies: Listen, Don’t Look,” confirms what ESR has been advising employers for some time: people are not nearly as good a they think they are at detecting liars. Even highly trained interviewers can make mistakes. See:   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111809280 This article underscores again that employers are at a big disadvantage if they are relying…
Free Interview Generator creates standardized questions for Human Resources and hiring managers
Employment Screening Resources (ESR) has released a free web based interview guide generator to help employers build printed interview forms for any position. The tool allows employers to select from generic interview questions, or to create their own questions, and then create a printed form that can be saved or modified. Â The tool also gives…
Cost Effective Employment Screening and Safe Hiring Techniques for Large Employers
American industries that hire large numbers of hourly, temporary or seasonal employees are caught in a Catch-22. On one hand, they know that if they don’t take measures to conduct pre-employment screening and exercise due diligence in hiring, it is a statistical certainly they are sitting ducks for expensive litigation, workplace violence, false claims, theft,…
Why Interviews Are Not an Effective Means to Tell if a Job Applicant is Lying on their Resume or Job Application
Even if Diogenes had found an honest person, there is a body of modern evidence that suggests it is difficult for anyone, from ancient philosophers to modern day employers, to use an interview to determine who is really who. Employers have a distinct challenge when it comes to spotting liars; industry statistics suggest that as…
