Safe hiring expert Attorney and safe hiring expert Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a webcast on the topic of ‘Legal and Effective Reference Checking and Education Verification’ on Thursday, August 25, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET (10:00 AM to 11:00 PT) for the Institute for Human Resources (IHR) Certification Program from HR.com.

To register for this webcast, which is free to HR.com members and approved for 1.0 General credits through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI), visit https://crm.hr.com/en/webcasts_events/webcasts/upcoming_webcasts/legal-and-effective-reference-checking-and-educati_gpvaargk.html.

With hiring decision becoming more critical in challenging economic times, verifying past employment and education and obtaining references have become critical. Unfortunately, talsifying or inflating employment and educational accomplishments has become a significant problem for employers, and legal limitations also create barriers for human resources professionals when obtaining and giving past employment information.

Participants in the webcast ‘Legal and Effective Reference Checking and Education Verification’ such as HR Professionals, Recruiters, and Hiring Managers will:
* Learn effective and legal strategies to verify an applicant’s past employment and education accomplishments.
* Explore why employment references create legal issues for employers and strategies for obtaining information and dealing with requests from other employers.
* Learn why phony education credentials are problematic and how to spot degree mills.
* Review new technologies and approaches to credentials verifications.
*Understand special issues when it comes to international employment and education verification.

The webcast is sponsored by Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a national background check firm Rosen founded in 1997 in the San Francisco area that is accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), a professional trade organization for the screening industry. For more information about ESR, visit http://www.ESRcheck.com.

Rosen is a frequent speaker on safe hiring issues as part of the ‘ESR Speaks’ program. Information about future events is at http://www.esrcheck.com/Newsletter/ESR-Speaks/. Rosen was also the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the NAPBS and served as the first co-chairman in 2004.

To register for the webcast ‘Legal and Effective Reference Checking and Education Verification,’ visit https://crm.hr.com/en/webcasts_events/webcasts/upcoming_webcasts/legal-and-effective-reference-checking-and-educati_gpvaargk.html.