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RESOURCE CENTER All Things Background Checks

ESR has been featured in numerous national publications. Here is just a sampling with more to come!

ESR featured in SHRM Magazine

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...

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 on, "Who are you really hiring."
See»» http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/23/35/80/index.php

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.
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.