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EmployeeScreenIQ is excited to be a sponsor at the first ever Transform Conference, put on by TLNT in Austin, TX on February 26-28. TLNT has led the way in bringing new voices from the HR profession together to discuss the “Business of HR” and this is exactly what will be happening in Austin next February.

Come join us and over twenty leading speakers from throughout the HR profession, including an exciting keynote from Billy Beane of Moneyball fame, that will change the way you think about HR… and give you the tools you need to transform your HR organization in 2012! And if you use the discount code TF12ESIQ when registering at http://transform.tlnt.com/2012/register/ you will save $150 off the registration fee.

See you there and make sure to say hi!

More About the Conference:

Transform will be an experience unlike any other HR event you have ever attended. Why? We’ve designed Transform to prepare you for the challenges and changes you’ll be facing tomorrow and beyond, not just on the here and now.

TLNT was launched so that there can finally be an HR publication about “The Business of HR”. Transform will be bringing that same vision to life in Austin. Transform’s agenda gets to the root of how HR can positively impact your organization’s bottom line. Transform’s presenters are people who have all been, and in many cases still are, pushing the envelope in their HR departments for some of the most well known and successful companies in the world.

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EmployeeScreenIQ will be exhibiting at the 70th Annual HR Southwest Conference and Exhibition at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, TX October 30th through November 2nd, 2011.

The HRSouthwest Conference is the largest regional human resources Conference in the United States. The Conference offers world-renowned keynote speakers, two and a half days of educational sessions networking opportunities and exposure to the latest HR products, techniques and services. The HRSouthwest Conference is THE Conference that meets and exceeds your HR education needs!

Please stop by to talk employment screening and background checks in the state of Texas.

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I love HR. Despite the fact that sometimes HR gets a bad reputation of being the police and hand-holders in the organization, we can make a huge positive impact. There are a number of possibilities and ways that this can happen in every aspect of your HR program. However, it will require that those in HR move out of the policeman uniform and into a business suit. We have to stop being concerned with what people can’t do and focus on what we can do to help our organization move forward.

Moving forward requires a focus on talent and a questioning of the status quo. Real organizational  impact can happen when we ask some of the following questions:

• In what ways can we recruit, develop, and retain the individuals we need to achieve the targets? (Oh and yes, you need to know the targets and priorities of the organization.)
• What do we need to do better?
• What do we need to do differently than what we are doing right now?

Just the thought of these questions may seem overwhelming, especially if you feel you need to make many changes. However, it doesn’t have to be. In a session at HRevolution in Las Vegas last week, Joe Gerstand and Jason Lauritsen presented a session on hacking HR. In order to understand this, you must first understand what hacking is and what it isn’t. Hacking according to the Talent Anarchy team is not an overhaul of your entire talent management program or your entire talent acquisition program. It is, however, looking at the program and determining what small changes can be made with a strong positive impact. This process, according to Lauritsen is about constantly moving forward and making improvements.

It’s really quite simple and that is what I love about HRevolution. This unconference is full of HR professionals looking to collaborate and challenge each other to make it better. These professionals are about moving HR forward and constantly asking how to be better. In my opinion, spending time with people who have this type of passion is the strongest way to maintain you own passion in the pursuit to improve.

In the theme of this constant inquiry and passion, EmployeeScreenIQ is continually hacking the background screening process for its clients by their flexible and no shortcuts approach to screening. There is a culture and a commitment to ensure that every aspect of our work enables clients to achieve their talent acquisition goals.  I let the experts guide me in that area, so I practice hacking in other places. Let the experts at EmployeeScreenIQ do the same for you.

If you haven’t heard of HRevolution, look it up. It will be well worth your time. And if you are not using EmployeeScreenIQ, call us. It will also be well worth your time.

Keep Hacking.

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EmployeeScreenIQ will be sponsoring this year’s Fall ERE Expo at the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, FL held on Sepetember 7-9, 2011.  If you plan to attend, please stop by, say hello and let’s rap about employment screening and background checks.  I’ll be attending sessions and walking the Expo floor.

In case you aren’t familiar with the conference, here’s some promo from the folks at ERE:

ERE will again lead the way in featuring some of the most-admired and most successful companies and their recruiting practices. Join our conference chair, Linda Brenner, and other speakers from companies like Recruiting Excellence Award winners Accenture and Cisco, and from Deloitte. You’ll hear from PepsiCo, among one of the most admired companies for its management practices. And DaVita, a former recruiting-department-of-the-year winner. And from Nike.

The conference will, like always, be interactive: just one example is a session on writing job advertisements, with audience participation.

This isn’t a conference just about social media or just about sourcing or just about one part of recruiting. You’ll learn about:

• Behavioral interviewing
• Crafting a department budget
• Recruitment leadership
• Social media
• Recruiting in Silicon Valley
• Getting your executive team on board
• College recruiting
• Using mobile phones (and other latest tools and trends) in employee referrals

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Will you be in Vegas for the Annual SHRM Conference (June 26-28)?  If so, we invite you stop by our booth #2557 to say hello and talk employment screening and background checks.  And we know no one visits the exhibit hall for the giveaways:), but if you’re one of those people, we’ve got some awesome schwag!  Plus, we’ll be raffling off two Apple iTouch’s and an iPad2.

But wait.  There’s more.  Can you keep a secret?  We’ve got a big surprise that we will be unveiling at the conference.  I wish I could tell you more, but our company president, Jason Morris won’t let me.  Stay tuned.

See you in . . .

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EmployeeScreenIQ’s Nick Fishman will be speaking at the Wisconsin State SHRM Conference in Appleton, WI at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel and Conference Center on October 7, 2010 at 10:30am.

Technology has dramatically changed the way we compete for talent and screen prospective employees, but nothing approaches the impact of social networking.  With the widespread use of Facebook, LinkedIn, and other sites comes a new wave of legal liabilities for both recruiters and screeners. Other emerging technology threats include online diploma fraud, employment mills that manufacture work experience, screen scraping, and more.  Employers need to develop best practices and policies in order to successfully manage Web 2.0 technologies.

Join EmployeeScreenIQ’s Chief Marketing Office,  Nick Fishman for an informative session about how to protect your company in the age of Facebook.  You’ll learn which social networking sites are most popular with recruiters and applicants, and their impact on employment screening and the hiring process.  Attendees will also learn how to develop a social media policy and spot the warning signs of diploma and employment mills.  Finally, you’ll examine other Web 2.0 trends such as screen scraping and instant screening.

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EmployeeScreenIQ’s Jason B. Morris will be speaking at the 53rd Annual PIHRA Conference in Pasadena, CA at the Pasadena Convention Center on September 21, 2010 at 2:00 pm pst.

Recruiting and Hiring Liabilities: Protecting Your Organization from the Harmful Effects of Web 2.0

Technology has dramatically changed the way we compete for talent and screen prospective employees, but nothing approaches the impact of social networking.  With the widespread use of Facebook, LinkedIn, and other sites comes a new wave of legal liabilities for both recruiters and screeners. Other emerging technology threats include online diploma fraud, employment mills that manufacture work experience, screen scraping, and more.  Employers need to develop best practices and policies in order to successfully manage Web 2.0 technologies.

Join EmployeeScreenIQ’s President and Chief Operating Officer,  Jason B. Morris for an informative session about how to protect your company in the age of Facebook.  You’ll learn which social networking sites are most popular with recruiters and applicants, and their impact on employment screening and the hiring process.  Attendees will also learn how to develop a social media policy and spot the warning signs of diploma and employment mills.  Finally, you’ll examine other Web 2.0 trends such as screen scraping and instant screening.

Please stop by and say hello if you plan to attend.

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EmployeeScreenIQ is an official sponsor of this Fall’s ERE Expo in Hollywood, Florida October 26-28, 2010.  Please stop by, say hello and rap about employment background checks (or anything else)  if you plan to be there.

Thousands of recruiting leaders have chosen to attend ERE Expo to learn about new strategies, tactics and tools to improve the recruiting process.

There are other events, but none that feature as many real practitioners sharing their successes and what they have learned from their failures with you. Year after year, ERE Expo continues to reinvent its agenda and speaker faculty, featuring sessions led by recruiters like you. That is something you won’t find at any other recruiting event this year.

Whether this will be your first time at ERE Expo or you are a veteran attendee, you are all guaranteed a fresh conference experience and agenda, unlike any others you have seen previously.

Register today to join the best in global recruiting at ERE Expo 2010 Fall. The Expo starts October 26 – you simply can’t miss it!

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We’re exhibiting and speaking at the 2010 SHRM Conference and Expo. Visit our booth and you could win an Apple iPad.

EmployeeScreenIQ is traveling to the National SHRM Conference in San Diego, California, conducting podcasts and discussing our employment screening services and criminal background checks. Visit us at booth #1023 where we’ll have plenty of giveaways, including a prize drawing for a pair of Apple iPads!

We’ll also unveil the results of our 2010 Background Screening Trends Survey, which covers emerging issues, diploma mills, laws that protect job applicants, and much more. With over 600 respondents, we’re excited to share this insightful report.

Last, EmployeeScreenIQ’s President Jason Morris will speak about the dangers of using social networking sites to screen job applicants. “Social Networking Sites: Can You Always Trust What You See?” is the title of his presentation on Monday, June 28, at 4 p.m. (PST).

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