http://www.accuscreen.com Your Specialist In Criminal Background Checks Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:21:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2006-2007 kevinconnell@accuscreen.com (AccuScreen) kevinconnell@accuscreen.com (AccuScreen) posts 1440 Your Specialist In Criminal Background Checks AccuScreen AccuScreen kevinconnell@accuscreen.com No no http://www.accuscreen.com/images/2010/iTunes-Kevin-Connell-s.jpg http://www.accuscreen.com 144 144 http://www.accuscreen.com/our-blog/insiders-secrets-of-criminal-background-checks-webinar/ http://www.accuscreen.com/our-blog/insiders-secrets-of-criminal-background-checks-webinar/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:15:06 +0000 Accuscreen Team http://accuscreen.com/blog/?p=217 http://www.accuscreen.com/our-blog/insiders-secrets-of-criminal-background-checks-webinar/feed/ 0 74:12 I'm going to speak for a few minutes on criminal background checks and then I'm going to open it up to a "Q and A" ... I'm going to speak for a few minutes on criminal background checks and then I'm going to open it up to a "Q and A" so we will save any questions you have in mind for the end.nbsp; Let me start by giving a little background on myself and on my company. nbsp;I am Kevin Connell and my company is AccuScreen.nbsp; I started AccuScreen back in 1994 - exactly fifteen years ago - almost to the day.nbsp; We incorporated in the state of Florida in May of 1994.nbsp; Prior to that I worked at Proctor and Gamble for about seven or eight years.nbsp; One tip that I give to people as I'm speaking is make sure that whoever you are speaking to has some sort of background on the topic you are looking to learn more about.nbsp; I see plenty of people out there that give advice and they really have no reason to be giving advice because they don't know anything about the topics.nbsp; nbsp;In terms of specifically background checks, since I started the company in '94 many things have changed in terms of the medium that we use to get information back, but not a whole lot has changed in terms of the actual searches.nbsp;nbsp; The internet has been around since the 1960's and the 1970's, but the internet back in '94 was not in the user-friendly format that it is today.nbsp; Information has always been out there, we are just able to get the information quicker to you and in a more user-friendly format.nbsp; nbsp;But in terms of the criminal records themselves, that really hasn't changed a whole lot.nbsp; The business that I am in is basically fraud prevention and making sure that in terms of - if you are hiring somebody - that you are hiring an asset - somebody that is going to benefit your company, benefit your organization - to do the job at hand.nbsp; With the internet not only can you get information quickly, but there's the good side of the internet, and then the negative side of the internet.nbsp; And anybody who has followed me, what I have talked about a lot lately are some of these scams that have taken place.nbsp; And some of these are quite amusing stories.nbsp; One on the social media front was on Fox a few weeks back talking about what employers and what employees need to know about social media - such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter - very, very powerful technologies, but with that technology there is a negative side to it.nbsp; nbsp;Anybody that has a cell phone, for instance - and this happened a few months ago in Ohio - we had an individual who - it was his birthday - and he thought it would be a good idea to film himself taking a bath in the bathtub of this restaurant.nbsp; And before you know it, it was loaded up on YouTube.nbsp; And this is what I'm talking about when I talk about preventing hiring the employee from hell.nbsp;nbsp; This certainly fit the description well.nbsp; He not only had another person in the restaurant filming him while he was in his birthday suit - instantly when it was uploaded to YouTube, the Health Department of Ohio was called in, the restaurant was closed down - just because somebody thought it was going to be a pretty funny thing to do.nbsp; The sad thing is he lost his job as well as the managers and the other people that were there.nbsp; Plus whoever was working that shift or that day, they were not going to be making any money because the restaurant was closed down.nbsp; The business was affected, and personally this particular restaurant I would never go into again.nbsp; I don't care how efficient you are at cleaning and sanitizing the place, that's just not the publicity that an organization needs.nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;In the fifteen years of doing background checks and helping companies prevent fraud, prevent embezzlement; prevent hiring the employee from hell, usually when the economy faces tough times fraud increases.nbsp; You've seen that in the papers and you've seen that in the news for the past several months.nbsp; What was Madoff doing for the past twenty years?nbsp; A lot of people t... Blog,,Webinars kevinconnell@accuscreen.com no No