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The Safe Hiring Manual: The Complete Guide to Keeping Criminals, Imposters and Terrorists Out of Your Workplace
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Sales rank 476,808
Customers rating (based on 4 reviews)
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Ask any labor lawyer, human resource manager or security professional whether an employer should engage in pre-employment screening. There will be but one response . . . it’s an absolute necessity! Employers must know all about whom they are hiring by exercising due diligence while performing verifications, background checks and pre-employment screening. Consider these startling statistics complied by ADP (a payroll processing corporation): • The direct and indirect average cost of employee turnover is equal to 150% of the annual salary. • 30% of all business failures are due to employee theft and related forms of dishonesty. • 51% of all resumes, applications and references provided by applicants contain inaccurate information. • 5% of applicants have had a criminal record in the past 7 years. Clearly, employee problems are caused by problem employees! The best way for employers to avoid bad hires is to institute a Safe Hiring Program as outlined in The Safe Hiring Manual by Lester S. Rosen. The Safe Hiring Manual is a comprehensive blueprint for developing a program for employers, human resources, security professionals, private investigators, labor lawyers ¯ anyone concerned about hiring safe and qualified employees. The Manual details how to exercise due diligence throughout the hiring process, significantly increasing an employer’s chance of avoiding the financial and legal nightmares of even one bad hiring decision including: • Effective use of applications, interviews and past employer checks as key hiring tools. • Verify degrees and credentials, and how to legally obtain and use criminal records. • Legal compliance issues, including the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) as well as EEOC, Patriot Act, Privacy, Sarbanes-Oxley, state law compliance, and other legal concerns. • In-depth pre-employment background screening and investigative techniques. • New information on how to identify terrorists and perform international background checks. • How to audit the effectiveness of your current hiring program, The Safe Hiring Manual provides all the "why’s and how-to’s" for implementing necessary employment practices that will keep your business safe – and keep you out of court!
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| Publisher | Facts on Demand Press | | Release date | 07/2007 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Paperback |
| | List price | $24.95 | | Our price | $24.95 | | Used price | from $7.87 |
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The Best Book Out There on the Subject
This is an area where I professionally need to spend a great deal of time on behalf of my organization. I can say without any hesitation that "The Safe Hiring Manual," is the best book on the topic. I have just obtained the latest edition issued in late 2007, and it has even more information than the original. It is for all practical purposes an encyclopedia on the topic of safe hiring and background checks, with very hard-to-find resources on International Screening, among other topics. As the saying goes, "if you only had one book on this topic, this would be it." I refer to "the Safe Hiring Manual" at least once a week to resolve various hiring issues.
The Safe Hiring Manual
Put all of your other books away, hiring managers, human resource personnel, and small business owners, this one book will replace everything else on your shelf. A wonderful resource to help you with the hiring process and how to handle it efficiently, professionally, and safely.
A "Must Have" Book
For anyone involved in hiring, security, human resources, background screening or labor law, this is a "must have" book. The first half of the book is a very practical and in-depth "how-to" for employers who want to protect their workplace from criminals, terrorist or imposters. It goes well beyond just background screening, and covers the critical aspects of the application, interviewing and reference checking process as part of a safe hiring program. The chapters on negligent hiring, the FCRA and privacy are also critical. There is also an in-depth discussion on the how to legally obtain and utilize criminal records. The second half contains a resources library with chapters on subjects such as terrorism, international background checks, fraud and embezzlement, workplace violence and drug testing. This is the only source of information I have located on international background screening and the issues associated with keeping potential terrorist out of your workforce. The safe hiring audit alone makes this book indispensable. The books 512 pages is nearly an encyclopedia of safe hiring and pre-employment background screening. It reviews the screening industry in some detail as well. The book is very valuable for any employer attempting to outsource employment screening. What is also interesting is that the book also has a chapter that examines employment screening from the applicant's point of view, and even contains information on how job seekers with criminal records can find jobs.
The Definitive Book on Background Checks!
As the title implies, this really is The Complete Guide to safe hiring. Rosen's step-by-step descriptions and instructions are an invaluable resource to any HR or Security professional, or lawyer, concerned with how to effectively implement (and/or measure) an employment screening policy. A "must have" for any organization's hiring procedures.
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