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    Pre-Employment Screening Industry Overview Industry Overview Due to the increasing costs associated with workplace embezzlement, fraud, violence, and other unethical business practices, the need to manage hiring and personnel risk has never been of greater importance than in today's business environment. The process of verifying past employment, education, and criminal history is an essential facet of many contemporary corporate risk management programs. The pre-employment screening industry

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    Violence Act of 2015). H.R. 1217 design is to support the second amendment rights while providing a responsible and consistent background checking process prior to purchasing of a firearm. It also prohibits the sale of firearms to those listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). In 2010 there were 14 million who people submitted background checks to purchase or transfer possession of a firearm resulting in 153,000 being blocked or prohibited from making a firearm purchase

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    control today has to do with how mental illness factors into these shootings and what should be done pertaining to mental health gun restrictions. The general public seems to favor the idea of increasing the reporting of mental illness in background check databases and limiting the ability of those with mental illness from gaining access to guns. In an article by James D. Calvert PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist and lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Southern Methodist University

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    This speech talks about the importance of having an extensive background check required for anyone that wises to purchase a firearm. Along with four executive actions that President Obama was working on in response to the Sandy Hook massacre. The claim in this speech for extensive background checks in order to purchase a firearm is fueled by the fact that it was legal for people to bypass the background check process by purchasing their firearm off the internet. According to the speech

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    Firearms were adopted into the United States Constitution in 1791 alongside the Second Amendment providing the People with the right to bear arms freely. Firearms have been utilized for more than just self-defense for a considerable amount of time. They have contributed to our country’s history, revolutionary ancestry, and Pacific settlement, all of which are renowned pieces of events that have helped build our great nation. However, The Founding Fathers implemented this right without having possibly

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    detect a breach, limiting access to pre-selected personnel, auditing employee access and behaviors, disallowing transport of data off-site, monitoring and reviewing data sharing with customers/ partners/suppliers, and of course the thorough background checks. Many of these measures aside from strengthening the protection against compromise would also deter hackers. The most likely company to be targeted is the company that appears to have the least protection (Phua, 2009). The fines incurred

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    soon. It’s much too late.” B. Gun violence has been a huge deal from police brutality to mass shootings. As of December 4 2017, we had about 404 mass shootings so far. C. Today I will be discussing the mass shooting of a rural Texas church, the background on the gunman, and if there is any way to solve this problem. I. As we do not have an exact definition of mass shooting, but some federal agency defines a "mass shooting" as when four or more people have been killed in the same location. A. Sunday

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    As the saying goes, history tends to repeat itself. In Europe during the 1930s and1940s Jewish Europeans were treated as second class citizens, striped of their rights, and tragically murdered by the masses. Today if someone were to take a look back there would be no question as to why Jewish people sought refuge overseas. Today a very similar situation presents itself in the Middle East. Thousands of Syrians are seeking refuge in neighboring countries and overseas. History may never see such horrible

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    weeks before receiving a response to an application, if at all.” (Needleman). The system will look for those words to determine who moves forward in the process. However, newer technology analyzes the words and looks for context and relevance and can check where in someone’s work history a skill was used. These techniques make it harder to manipulate the system. Such tricks like filling your resume with keywords in white font so people can’t read it will not work with later technology. Resumes posted

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    passed away he was in the custody of his grandparents Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman. Although Norman was not biologically related to Jeffrey he was still considered one of the primary caregivers along with Elva (Estate, 2006). A little bit of background history about Elva and Norman. In 1970, Elva was “sentenced to one year of probation for assaulting her five-month-old daughter Eva, who had died of pneumonia” (The Canadian Press, 2014). Elva then had two more children and got together with Norman

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