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In our latest podcast, it's deja vu all over again as Mike Coffey interviews Bracewell and Guiliani's Lon Williams... again.  This time, he's moderating the Fort Worth HR Management Association's 7th Annual Interactive Workshop on September 10th.

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In this edition of the Imperative Podcast, Mike Coffey interviews Lon Williams, who will be speaking at the September 3rd MidCities Human Resources Association luncheon meeting.

Last night, Fort Worth-Dallas television station CBS 11 ran a story about the Sue Weaver C.A.U.S.E., a program to raise homeowners' awareness of the risks inherent in dealing with in-home service workers (plumbers, carpet cleaners, electricians, etc.). Included was video of some of the Imperative staff and a brief excerpt of an interview with me about the hazards of cheap background checks.

We recently asked our friend Steve Moreau at Networking Results to provide us with a few helpful tips on how to improve network security.  The following article is Steve's response. 

Two critical aspects of technology security are knowing what you are protecting and knowing the source of the threat. The threat is to your business information such as customer or financial data. The threat comes both from external (Internet hackers) and internal (employees). If you know the threat and what they are after, this allows you to systematically reduce the threat by focusing on solutions to remove the vulnerabilities to the target of the threat...your business.

I attended the EEOC Technical Assistance Seminar in Dallas on Monday. The first half of the seminar was outstanding and I'll post about some of the presentations later this week. However, the one presentation that slapped me in the face covered an online test for bias for against particular groups.

MetLife recently released their Sixth Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends, a study of over 1,300 employees and 1,600 benefits decision-makers from large and small companies nationwide.  Due to fluctuations in the economy and an increase in employee awareness of their financial futures, employee benefits has been boosted to the top of the list of things that employers must focus on in order to attract and retain the best talent. 

Since we produced our podcast earlier this week about the Misdemeanor and Felony-Friendly Career Fair, I received several inquiries about why a background investigations firm would be involved in something like this. Aren’t we all about keeping employers from hiring ex-cons?

We've completed transcribing the inaugural episode of The Imperative Podcast, an interview with Dr. Angel Illarraza who is the coordinator for Tarrant County's Reentry Initiative. Please let us know what you think of the podcast and what we can do to improve it!

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Tarrant County, Workforce Solutions, the Mid-Cities HR Association and a number of other community partners are hosting a Misdemeanor and Felony-Friendly Career Fair this Friday in Arlington.

In publicizing this event, we produced our first podcast - an interview with Dr. Angel Ilarraza, who is Coordinator for Tarrant County's Reentry Initiative. I think you might be interested in what Dr. Ilarraza has to say about the challenges former offenders face in reentering society and the business case for helping them succeed outside of prison.