by: Dan Woog
Monster Contributing Writer

You wouldn't wear jeans to a job interview, but do you pay as much attention to job-hunting etiquette when networking? If you're approaching potential contacts in an offhand way, you may be putting them off entirely. Learn what the most common networking mistakes are so you don't have to make them.

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by: Les Rosen, Esq. ©2003
Posted on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse web site, Sept. 2003
www.privacyrights.org

Employers have become increasingly concerned about knowing if an applicant has a criminal record. More employers are conducting pre-employment background checks for criminal records. Employers have been the subject of large jury verdicts for negligent hiring in cases where they hire a person with a criminal record that harms others, and it could have been avoided by a criminal record check That is because employers have a legal duty to exercise due diligence in the hiring process, and that duty can be violated if an employer hires someone that they either knew or should have known in the exercise of reasonable care was dangerous or unit for a job. The concern from the employer's point of view is that a person with a criminal past may have a propensity to re-offend in the future.

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