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By Art Gib

 If you are an employer, you probably know how important employment verification can be when it comes to the success of your company. In this day and age, it has become a necessity to investigate potential employees before hiring them.

Part of this is verifying an applicant’s prior employment claims. By conducting this sort of background check, you can ensure that the applicant is telling the truth about previous work experience and education.

When you need to conduct a background check to verify an applicant’s claims of employment, you can use a simple employment verification letter. From company to company, these letters may differ. There are some companies that need only to verify that an applicant has been truthful about their previous employers. Other companies will want to make sure that the quality of the applicant’s work, expertise, and skills are that which they have claimed them to be.

If you are going to use this verification letter, you should know how to build a professional letter properly.

First, when constructing one of these letters, you will need the proper format. You will want to start with the full block format for verification letters. On the left side of your letter header, you will want to make sure that you have the return address. This is an important step, as you will want to make sure that the information you need gets to the right address.

Below the return address, make sure you have the date. You may include your reference line if you wish, but this step is optional. After you have the header properly constructed, start your letter. Make sure everything stays to the left, as you do not want paragraph indentations for a business letter. Always make your closing signature to the left side as well.

In the body of the letter you will want to state your name, job position, and your job position in relation to the employee or applicant in question. You will want to then state the applicant’s information so that it can be verified.

If you are inquiring about a present employee, try to make the last paragraph as positive as possible about the individual. Always remember to keep your letters professional and never personal. There is no room for gossip in the professional world!

If you have an email address, you will most likely want to add that into the letter. You can get a quicker response with an email address.

Triad Consultants (http://triadcon.com) is an employment screening provider offering employment verification for hiring managers and other employers. Art Gib is a freelance writer.

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Are Background Checks Useful?
By SimonSkinner

 Background checks are becoming even more popular with our abundant amount of online resources. There are always ads when you are surfing the Internet stating that you can conduct a background check in under 5 minutes for free. However, you cannot always be sure that those companies are the best ones to use. The important factor is that background checks are extremely useful in all types of situations.

A background check lists all of the personal information that a company or an individual would need to know. This includes:

Your full name

Birth date

All of your addresses for the past 10 years

If you have ever travelled out of the country or lived out of the country.

Your credit history, including any delinquent accounts.

Small claims court records

Driving record

Criminal record

One of the most common background checks is being conducted by the actual person, meaning that it is a good idea for you to do a background check on yourself. While this might sound a little farfetched, it is very common for there to be false information listed about you without you even knowing. If you already check your credit report on a frequent basis, then you should also be checking your background reports.

If you find out that there is inaccurate information listed on your background check, then you are responsible for fixing it. This means that you have to go to the local public records bureau in your area and report any fraudulent reports of criminal records, false driving reports, etc.

You also have to write a letter to all three credit reporting agencies. In the letter, state the disputes and the claims associated. You will need to include any documents to support your case and then the agencies will have to review the information.

If you are an employer, then you probably know how useful a criminal and credit check can be. Many large companies are already running background checks on any applicants before continuing with the interview process. No matter how small your company is, you need to run a background check on each person to find out if they have a criminal background or any history of theft.

It would not hurt to run a background check on a person that you just met as well. This includes any new friends, boyfriends, or even your daughters boyfriend. Mothers and fathers running background checks on their childrens new love interests is actually more common than you would think.

The only information that you need to run a background check on anyone is their name, address, and birth date. If you do not know their address then you can still run a background check, but it is helpful. When you start the search, you will be presented with a long list of names that are probably all the same as the person you are trying to find out information about. Their birth date is the piece of information that will distinguish them from the other names.

A free background check is not always the best route. Usually, the information given is very scarce and it is not worth your time. You should be prepared to pay a small fee, and as long as the site is endorsed by a federal government then the information will be useful. Even though you have to pay for a background check, it is a small price to pay to find out the real information about a person.

This free article about employee screening was provided by www.macdataadvantage.com.

Macdataadvantage.com is a leading online company providing employee screening and background checks. To learn more about employee background checks or criminal background checks then visit the site for more details on how to protect your business.

Where The Hell Can I Find Another Job
By Jeffrey Solochek

 With my current job I barely get all my bills paid. I need at least a part time position to supplement my income. Referrals from coworkers never pan out. I’ve gone into all the businesses that are located around where I live. I even applied at Target, had all the skills they were looking for, yet they told me that they were looking for somebody different. The only thing I can figure out why Target didn’t offer me a position was because I am 42 years old. It is almost as if they would rather hire somebody who won’t last like somebody just out of high school.

Craigslist is free and companies post jobs over there all the time but the problem I find with Craigslist is there are a lot of postings of junk, scams, and biz op’s. You end up having to weed through 10 junk ads just to get to one that is real. Most of these jobs give no phone number just either a fax number or email address to reply to. If your ;local McDonald’s put a wanted ad in the classifieds locally or hung up a sign then when applying your app will be 1 amongst maybe a thousand others.

This seems to be the concensus with all companies who post a wanted ad on sites like Careerbuilder, Monster, and Yahoo Hotjobs. It takes months before you ever hear back from any of these companies and I want a job now not 3 months down the road. I’ve tried just call companies in the Yellow Pages but it’s September here in Florida and a lot of these companies tell me they will have nothing until the season starts sometime in October.

Is there something wrong with me? Why can’t I seem to get another job? Do I need to go back through some sort of schooling? I have prior Student Loans so without having to apply for more loans how would I even pay for more schooling? My wife just started one of those small colleges that is all over the internet for Medical Assistant training. The total cost of the entire 2 year program is almost $20,000 not to mention the loss of income because while she is going to school she can’t afford the time to work a full time job.

My father paid for my brothers to go through school but I was one of the lucky ones who was told to raise the money myself and if and when I graduate my father would think about reimbursing me. When he was working his income was too great for me to qualify for any financial aid. At least 20 years ago schooling was a lot more affordable. I purposely did not claim my kids as deductions when I filed my yearly taxes thinking this would help them qualify for financial aid. It turns out that these days whether or not you declare your kids on taxes if they are under 24 years of age they are automatically look upon as your liability.

What about the idea of learning new skills on my own? I can find a lot of information online if I could just find some place where I could take the exams and learn all the material on my own I should be able to save a small fortune. I know a lot about computers but yet I don’t have any of the certifications. I know everything the certificates tell employers you know. Is there a place where I can just take the exams rather than have to go to school to learn things I already know. I’ve taken the online tests for these cert’s and passed them all with flying colors. Where do I go from here?

Jeffrey A. Solochek grew up in WhiteFish Bay, Wisconsin but now resides in Brunswick, Georgia. He is an established authority on his niches of life, business, and marketing. Mr Solochek has a lot of great experiences and he writes about everything leaving out any sugarcoating. All his writings containsNo BS, No Fluff

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