Daily Career Connection

In the United States, at-will employment defines a working relationship in which either party can break the employment agreement without liability. This doctrine assumes there was no explicit contract between the employer and employee and that the employer does not belong to a union. The document officially states “the employer is free to discharge individuals “for good cause, or bad cause, or no cause at all,” and the employee is equally free to quit, strike, or otherwise cease work.”

This policy theoretically reduces job security, as employers can terminate a position for any reason, or even no reason at all. A company is free to fire workers en masse if diminishing profits began to eat away at the employer’s sustainability. Other negative behaviors, such as workplace bullying, can occur because of the influence of an environment of fear and job insecurity created by at-will employment.
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Today organizations have become high alert and ready to do anything to have the right kind of employees onboard. “Many companies doing pre employment checks due to the IT marketing boom.” The IT industry has witnessed a phenomenal growth and hence, it becomes important to ensure that best quality professionals were being inducted into the organization. It was a customer centric initiative to establish credibility with respect to the caliber of the people, recruited into organization.

The pre-employment checks are more popularly referred to’ Background Check Process’ is a very critical part of recruitment procedure. Employees are not allocated to projects with the background check, being cleared for the employee. Many training and staffing organizations, hire only on referral basis and hence it becomes imperative to have referrals checks as the first step in the entire pre-employment procedure. Every necessary check is done before calling the candidate for the interview. (more…)

Employers are always looking for certain things in job candidates. If you can master these ten skills, you will be ahead of your competitors in the job market and you will stand a much better chance of getting a great job.

Be In Demand With These Ten Traits

1. Budget management - Effective budget management means taking steps to ensure that a manageable and controllable budget is in place and that procedures are defined to eliminate cash crunch situations from developing.

2. Speaking - Being able to work with someone one on one as well as conduct effective meetings is vital in today’s business climate. Can you communicate ideas, persuade clients or business partners, motivate and inspire employees and explain complex issues? If so, you will be in demand by employers.

3. Writing - Writing involves clearly identifying ideas and relating them to others in a way that allows for few or no misconceptions. All business communication must be professional, concise and easy to understand. Where communication is concerned, more is better than less.
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A candidate can be compelled to lie for a variety of reasons. This would include being laid off by a previous employer for reasons ranging from theft or immoral conduct or behavior. Candidates, for obvious reasons, would not want to disclose these facts, and might be tempted to lie on their resumes.

The Reason

It is estimated that up to 40% of resumes contained false or rigged information. In an employer’s capacity, one needs to make sure that a person one is about to hire is really the person he or she claims to be. An employer may check if the candidate has graduated from a particular college, or if they were really with a particular employer at the time period mentioned.

When asked about the reason for a job change, candidates that are being untruthful usually give reasons like change of residence or personal growth. These reasons are good enough and very hard to detect as the person probably has rehearsed their story and it doesn’t usually sound false. However, it is very important for the employer to look into the truth of the matter. Previous employers are not usually forthcoming and helpful in this regard due to legal implications. Most employers usually simply state that it is against their company policy to give out such details. If pushed, at the most they will confirm the date of the candidate’s employment with them, and most won’t go further than this.

What Should Be Done?

If you, as an employer, feel that something is not right, or if something sounds too good to be true, then the complete history of the candidate should be verified. This may not be possible for you in an employer’s capacity, as most employers do not have enough resources or the experience to carry out such checks. It is advised to hire a professional firm to carry out the employment history verification, as well as a criminal record check.

At times, for jobs that require seniority, candidates tend tweak their resumes to be eligible. Candidates have been known to exaggerate previous experience. It is obvious that, in such cases, truth is likely to come out - if not by history verification, then otherwise, as such a person will probably not have the desired expertise or the experience to handle the job at hand, and this will obviously show on their performance. But this would amount to loss of time, energy and resources on the employer’s part and would also cause a lot of inconvenience to everybody concerned.

Employment history verifications are a necessary business activity. They can detect potential problems before they arise and save companies a lot of time and money.