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You’ve Heard of Fake Degrees. How about a Fake Job History and Fake References?

By Patrick K. Collard – Managing Member & Corporate Investigator 1-888-GOBACK-1 ext. 83 | patrickc@GObackgrounds.com I recently wrote an article about fake diplomas and fake transcripts that are ubiquitously for sale on the Internet.  Degrees from prestigious colleges like UCLA, Harvard and Stanford to name a few are readily available for a price.  They’ll even through in fake transcripts for an additional charge.  Well, in order to complete the artifice these companies will also setup a fake job employment history and fake personal references, for another additional fee of course.  All of this is done under the premise that (...)

Fake Degrees Increase in a Down Economy

By Patrick K. Collard – Managing Member & Corporate Investigator 1-888-GOBACK-1 ext. 83 | patrickc@GObackgrounds.com It happens once or twice a year at GObackgrounds.com when conducting employment background checks, we get an applicant whose education cannot be verified and upon further inspection tried to pass-off a fake diploma.  Do a search on Google for Fake Diplomas and the list will be an endless parade of diploma mills willing to take anyone’s money for degree in “life experience”. Diploma mills are nothing new, I remember a story that 60 Minutes news magazine did on the nefarious topic back in the (...)

Steps Employers Must Take to Protect Themselves from Employment Lawsuits

By Julie Wootton - CEO | San Diego Human Resource Consulting, Inc. 1-760-438-8046 | julie@sdhrconsulting.com With California facing double digit unemployment rates, more employees are filing employment related claims than ever before.   According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), there has been a 9% increase in claims filed in 2007 from 2006. This is the largest increase since 1993.   The average cost of an employment lawsuit can cost approximately $250,000 for attorney’s fees and if the case goes to trial, jury awards range from $150,000 – $250,000+ and if the case doesn’t go to court and is settled, average (...)

Press Release: Applicant Entered Employment Background Checks

By Patrick K. Collard – Managing Member & Corporate Investigator 1-888-GOBACK-1 ext. 83 | patrickc@GObackgrounds.com GObackgrounds.com has created SwiftHire, a convenient feature within the client user account that allows the “applicant” to enter in his/her own background check information.  Never again do our clients have to spend their valuable time and money on payroll to enter in applicant data for their employment background checks. How does it work?  Simple, from their Web 2.0 user account, our clients select the appropriate background check package, which auto generates a unique link that is emailed to the applicant.  From this link, the (...)

GOback to Excellent Customer Service

By Greg Haap – Sr. Sales Executive 1-888-GOBACK-1 ext. 82 | gregh@GObackgrounds.com By definition, Customer Service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction, ultimately giving the customer the feeling that the product or service provided has met or exceeded expectation.   It sounds simple enough.  Give the customer a high quality product, and combine it with even better service. You would think most companies would want to do everything in its power to encourage repeat business, by executing this approach.  However, over the past few years I have found that the quality and (...)