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...headlines haven't dented job seekers' desire to dissemble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-checking company, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U.S. lie about their education on their résumés. (A common boast by guys: that they played on the college football team.) ResumeDoctor.com a résumé-writing business, found that of 1,000 résumés it vetted over six months, 43% contained one or more "significant inaccuracies...
...weed them out. In the field of industrial and organizational psychology, figuring out why and how job applicants lie is a hot research topic, and new studies are warning companies about the dangers of employing a liar. As a result, 96% of businesses now conduct some sort of background check on job applicants, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (S.H.R.M.), a trade group. Meanwhile, the ranks of third-party screeners have exploded in the past 10 years into a $2 billion industry...
Employers' fears have sparked a boom in the background-screening industry. About 700 firms exist now, compared to only a handful 10 years ago. Analysts say revenues for the industry are growing 7% to 10% a year. Though exhaustive checks on CEO-level individuals can cost $10,000 or more, some companies offer basic vetting for as little as $10. HireRight of Irvine, Calif., screens 1 million résumés a year and says business has grown tenfold over the past five years: employers have grown so watchful, says David Nachman, the company's head of marketing and business development...
...Undivided†was the most bizarre. The sound-effect score of Anna K. Grichting ’07 and Steven L. Pappas ’06 partnered with the instinctual choreography of Sonia K. Todorova ’07 to an equivocal effect. Todorova’s background in mime contributed to the work’s forte: although the dance’s choreography came off as too opaquely modern, the non-traditional use of pantomime conveyed human emotion through simple hand gestures and a variation on the miming rope trick. The strongest of the student choreography...
...important as his arms.The more-meditative second movement gave him the opportunity to integrate more with the rest of the orchestra, smoothing out the soloist-orchestra division that had dominated the first movement. Yannatos led the orchestra through a stretched-out rhythm bordering on rubato as both foreground and background richly employed a range of colors in place of dynamics.It was in the third movement that Jackiw pulled out all the stops. Jackiw was able to play perfectly off of his fellow performers, although at times a perceptible synchronization gap widened between the soloist and orchestra. Still, Jackiw?...