Background Check Companies Errrors’ Hurt Applicants
A MSNBC report focuses on the problem of background check companies confusing one person with another with the result that applicants lose job opportunities. MSNBC interviewed a Ms. Catherine Taylor who the Red Cross wanted to hire her as an accountant. She was not hired after a Choice Point criminal background check came back with a rap sheet of drug felonies. The rap sheet was for a different Catherine Taylor who lived in another state. In another case, after Leonard Smith applied for a job, Sterling Information Systems confused him with a sex offender, who was in prison at the...
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