Brett McIntyre — July 25, 2018 Follow @216Marketing — July 25, 2018 A modern applicant most likely about their personal, social and even professional lives stashed away on one or more social media platforms. This is just the reality of modern life. People – often unthinkingly – post the minutest details of their lives on … Continue reading The Dangers Of Doing Your Own Social Media Background Checks
How can you best evaluate a site to determine whether it’s a good linking partner? Contributor Julie Joyce outlines 15 things you need to check including site hacks, poor quality content, traffic and more. Julie Joyce on July 19, 2018 When inbound links occur naturally, you don’t look to see if the site linking to … Continue reading 15 checks you should make when choosing a link partner
Brett McIntyre — January 16, 2018 Follow @216Marketing — January 16, 2018 Employers have always lived under the threat of litigation when using background checks for screening applicants. This is nothing new. What is new is that, over the last few years, a particular aspect of using background checks has become a leading source of … Continue reading Warning to Employers: Get Your Background Checks In Order
Karl Sakas — July 7, 2017 Follow @KarlSakas — July 7, 2017 Snufkin / Pixabay Hiring at your agency? You owe it to yourself—and your team—to do skeptical reference checks. See how. Reference checks are a vital step in vetting your agency’s new hires. But you have to do them right, because candidates have an … Continue reading Use Skeptical Reference Checks to Find Great Employees at Your Agency
Todd Eiseman — April 10, 2017 — April 10, 2017 Despite the 96% of companies who administer reference checks on job applicants, the effectiveness of this step in the hiring process is often disturbingly low. Many companies conduct them as a formality, checking the box simply because that’s the way they’ve always done it. But … Continue reading Best Practices for Better Employment Reference Checks
Duplicate content can often arise without our knowledge, despite our best efforts to prevent it. Columnist Stephanie LeVonne shows how you can identify and fix it. Stephanie LeVonne on September 6, 2016 You’ve probably heard the phrase “duplicate content” being thrown around from time to time, and like any savvy webmaster, you’d never dare … Continue reading Don’t get duped by duplicate content: 8 quick checks for every SEO
by Brett McIntyre May 16, 2016 Follow @crimcheckMay 16, 2016 There are six words which most job applicants absolutely dread. These words are “subject to passing a background check.” For many applicants, this seemingly innocent phrase feels like a declaration that they won’t get hired. This is true especially for applicants who have a few … Continue reading 5 Things Applicant’s Attempt To Hide In A Run Up To Background Checks
by Rupert Adam January 19, 2016 Follow @emailcenterJanuary 19, 2016 Mistakes in emails happen. Whether it’s broken links, incorrect data, display issues or that dreaded typo, we’ve all been there. But how can you prevent these errors from occurring? Here are 5 email checks you should carry out before you hit send. 1. Always test … Continue reading 5 Email Checks You Should Carry Out Before You Hit Send
Genia StevensSeptember 25, 2015 Many employers have made social network checks a standard part of the talent acquisition process. A 2015 Harris poll revealed that fifty-two percent of employers use social networking sites to screen job candidates during the hiring process. These social network checks have become almost as common as reference checks and criminal … Continue reading How Employers Use Social Network Checks to Screen Job Seekers
Keller TiemannJuly 12, 2015 It can be hard to keep up with the SEO industry. There are periodic changes to Google’s algorithm which impact the effectiveness of various SEO techniques, creating an ever changing environment in the SEO space. It seems like every day there are new link building methods, new schema data types to … Continue reading 6 On-Page SEO Checks for Better Search Engine Rankings
