Sunday, January 29, 2012

Recruiter Solutions International - Passwords and Security

My name is Lisa Sprowls and I am a Filtration Recruiter. I work on many sales/ engineering/executive/ and management level positions serving the search and recruitment needs of both large and small manufacturers and distributors in the Filtration/Water & Wastewater/ Separations/and Environmental Industries.

With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.

Passwords and Security
Employee data breaches are becoming more and more common for companies. Lately there are more and more news stories about data breaches, averaging up to 4 or 5 per week in the media. Sometimes it is the missing laptop that was stolen from someone’s car/home/apartment ; sometimes it is the data tape that was being transported for storage and was “misplaced” ; and sometimes it was a disgruntled former employer who still had access to company information. How does this happen? Actually, it can be very simple.

You have an employee within your organization that, for what ever reason, you have chosen to release from your company. That employee had access to records, background reports, financial information, or other sensitive information about your company. Maybe you did your background report retrieval via the internet, or maybe the majority of your banking was through the internet. If that former employee still has access to active passwords, and had not been deactivated from the system, you could have a real problem.

As soon as your company has made the decision to release someone from their employment, you need to know how involved their access was to this information. Contact the bank and have their user name removed from the account or change the information if you have to. Be sure to contact your background screening company and update them to the change in personnel status so passwords can be locked out of the system, change the passwords on any sensitive information that can be accessed off site. And, while the majority of you will be able to say that you never share your password with anyone else, there are those that do. If the former employee has access to someone else’s password for what ever reason, be sure and get that changed as well. This is where you have to stamp out the brush fire before the whole forest burns.

Recruiter Solutions International - Passwords and Security

Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com



Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Recruiter Solutions International - Another Reason to do Background Checks

My name is Lisa Sprowls and I am a Filtration Recruiter. I work on many sales/ engineering/executive/ and management level positions serving the search and recruitment needs of both large and small manufacturers and distributors in the Filtration/Water & Wastewater/ Separations/and Environmental Industries.

With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.

Another Reason to do Background Checks
Recently, an article was published in Smart Business Magazine that makes a lot of sense. The interviewer quoted Ted Moss (the founder and CEO of a pre-employment screening agency) on his views on doing background checks. Basically, Mr. Moss stated that there are 2 types of screening – the instant checks and the comprehensive checks – as far as criminal searches. Instant checks are checks available online that come back instantly, and the comprehensive checks take 24-48 hours, which indicate that someone is taking a little more time to do a little more work.

Statistically, if your company does pre-employment background checks you will have fewer turnovers. Doing the background check will allow you to see if the employee will fit in to your work environment or if that potential employee has some serious issues that will cause serious issues within your organization.

You also have to decide if you are going to do the screening yourself, or if you are going to hire a company to do it. He provides the analogy of the plumber. If you need a pipe fixed, you can do it yourself or hire a professional. If you do it yourself, you will need to educate yourself on what to do or not do and will need some expertise to do the job right. Hiring a company is also hiring their expertise.

You have to justify for yourself the cost of pre-employment screening. If you hire a company and their expertise, you may spend $100 depending on how in depth you want to go. However, if you look at your costs, it can cost you between $7,000 and $15,000 to hire and train a new employee. Your $100 investment may well be worth it to get the right employee.

And last, but certainly not least, are the reasons to do the background checks. You do pre-employment screening to be proactive in protecting your self, your company, your employees and your customers. The US Chamber of Commerce says that, according to their statistics, 33 percent of US business bankruptcies are due to employee theft and embezzlement. The Society for Human Resource Management states that 45 percent of all resumes obtained contain at least one major fabrication. The numbers speak for themselves.

Recruiter Solutions International - Another Reason to do Background Checks

Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com



Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater