By Doreen Koronios

The SHRM Annual Conference is always a great event and we look forward every year to seeing our friends and colleagues there.  Although we are excited to discuss all of the services we offer to make your applicant screening process easy, efficient and compliant (pre employment, executive and vendor screening, I-9/E-Verify, drug testing, and fingerprinting)  we are showcasing our Onboarding Solution this year.

We’ve listened to what our HR colleagues had to say about their pain points and developed a robust solution.  We are aware that the “new” HR departments are leaner as the country slowly moves out of the economic recession.  We also realize that HR departments need to focus on being more of a strategic business partner to their companies rather than solely in the “people business”.  In order to help our clients accomplish this, we have built a state-of-the-art web based HR workflow and document management system to completely encapsulate the on-boarding process. This system ties together into one unified environment all of CARCO’s HR service offerings.

Please come by and see Jerry, Sal and myself at booth 2953 to learn about our offerings or just to say hello. If you have any suggestions about what to see and where to eat in San Diego, please let me know!

In the meantime, visit our website at www.carcogroup.com to learn about CARCO and our full suite of service offerings, view our on-boarding demo, read our White Paper on the new HR Department, and see our CEO interviewed by Fred Thompson on Inside Business regarding the importance of background screening.

See you in San Diego!

By Doreen Koronios

There was an interesting story in the Kansas City news that speaks to this very subject.  A veteran needed a job to help pay some bills and get back on his feet, but he says the opportunity to work at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas, was taken away from him after he was falsely accused of being a sex offender.

 (May 14, 2010) Christopher Michael Reynolds says that he was supposed to start at the water park on May 4th, but when he showed up, officials told him to leave after he was informed that he was a registered sex offender.  According to the background company that conducted the background check for Schlitterbahn, Christopher Reynolds was convicted of sexual battery in Bexar, Indiana, on March 11, 2007.

 But there was a big problem with the company’s background check. “When this happened, I was in Iraq, serving in the Army National Guard,” said Reynolds. Reynolds had a solid alibi with his military records, and the more he investigated, the more Reynolds learned about the investigation.

“His eye color, his height, the weight, the fact that I’ve never been to Indiana,” said Reynolds, who says that he even found a picture of the other Christopher Reynolds, the sex offender, who also has a different middle name. It was a silly mistake, but one that Reynolds says has some serious implications.

This has all the marks of a sloppy criminal history check that was conducted through a database search.  Some of these databases are primarily name based and it is very easy for a false positive to appear. At CARCO Group, we use the supplemental database as a pointer to “cast a net”, as one of the responders said, to identify potential hits in other states.  If there is a potential match CARCO will search the appropriate state or county utilizing the name, SSN and DOB of the candidate.  Additionally, as part of the CARCO difference we re-verify each adverse record to make sure that we positively verify the identity of the subject as well as ensure that we legally report our findings according to the federal and state statutes. These are important steps that will help keep our clients out of costly lawsuits.