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Excerpt from Gary Hamel's Management 2.0

The Hole in the Soul of Business
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Pre-employment screening as a critical risk-management tool

In today's competitive economic environment, companies cannot afford to be sidetracked by employee problems such as dishonesty, theft, false CVs, fraud or harassment. Employers have increasingly turned to pre-employment screening as a critical risk-management tool to try and avoid hiring problem employees in the first place. Statistics obtained from EMPS over October December 2007, showed: 4% of all checks had criminal records 22% had some financial record 12% had false qualifications 26% of driver's licences could not be verified
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A Brave New World for HR

The media landscape and work environment has changed so much over the last decade that a new approach is required for HR staff to source and recruit talented candidates. Human resource managers take heed - the future is not what it used to be. The search for talented employees continues to become tougher and nothing companies have done in the past will suffice. Recruiting and retaining staff of the future requires imagination, commitment and cutting-edge action. Doing nothing is not an option, nor is mildly incremental improvement.
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