by Tom Ahearn
1/27/2009 4:13:00 PM
According to a recent U.S. Labor Department report, 2.6 million people lost jobs in 2008, the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945, the year World War II ended. As if job seekers didn’t have enough to worry about while trying to find work in the worst job market in six decades, criminals have given them yet another problem to deal with: protecting personal information.
In today’s computer age, most job seekers look for work not by “pounding the pavement” but i...
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by Tom Ahearn
1/20/2009 9:04:00 AM
Summer – and excited children heading off to summer camps for swimming, hiking, and boating – may be months away, but the hiring of camp staff and camp volunteers begins long before the temperatures start getting warmer. And while summer camp should be a time for fun, freedom, and frolicking, there are those criminals who would use this opportunity to prey upon the most innocent of victims in the most pleasant of surroundings.
According to the American Camp Association (ACA),...
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by Tom Ahearn
1/12/2009 3:11:00 PM
The new year is a time for New Year’s resolutions, and 2009 is no different. But along with losing weight, exercising daily, and being a better person in general, you should consider one more resolution: give yourself a personal background check.
Why? Because you should want to know everything – good and bad – that is contained in your personal information BEFORE anyone else does. And you can, by giving yourself a personal background check. A “background check&rdq...
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