Monday, November 7, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Are you making the RIGHT Hiring Choice?
“We provide the information you need NOW,
to make the RIGHT hiring Choice”
Ask yourself these hiring questions:
1. Do I really know everything there is to know about this person from their application?
2. Do I really know anything about the person I just let into my home to fix my Cable TV, Faucet or clean my Air Ducts?
3. Do I really know my child care provider or elder care provider?
4. Do I really trust the people that are helping me with household chores, such as cleaning, personal assistant, or gardener?
5. Do I really feel secure trusting them with my family and/or home?
If you don’t feel good about answering any one of those questions, then Protection Plus Solutions is here to help.
Don’t be fooled into making a hiring decision without checking someone’s background. Looks, body language, and personalities can be deceiving! When you run a background check with Protection Plus Solutions, we provide the tools you need to make the right hiring decision.
Protection Plus Solutions makes your hiring choice easy and affordable. The internet has become an integral part with assisting families who are seeking domestic help, such as Nannies, Elder Care Providers, and Home Care Providers, etc. Now more than ever it’s critical to know exactly WHO the person is that will be entrusted to care for your family or household needs.
Protection Plus Solutions was created by a mother and retired investigator that worked closely with local law enforcement agencies to insure safeguards for children, families and local businesses throughout the USA. Years back, we didn’t have the ability to perform online background checks we took someone’s word about their ability to perform their job or care for children and the elderly. That was then and this is NOW! Find out WHO you are hiring, find out who is taking care of your children or family member and who you’ve just let inside your home. Find out if the person you are suspicious of has a criminal record, is a pedophile or REALLY who they say they are!
Get peace of mind today knowing that you’ve made the right hiring choice by conducting a fast, inexpensive and thorough background check. Contact Protection Plus Solutions Today!
Protection Plus Solutions
696 San Ramon Valley Blvd #409
Danville, CA 94526
1 877 725-5412
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
OMG.. My Kitchen is FLOODED!
It’s Monday morning and you wake up to find water all over your kitchen floor. Your husband has a business meeting in the city and is rushing to get out the door, the kids are racing through the house getting ready for school and you’re frantically mopping up water with towels and a mop. Your husband tells you to call a plumber to come out and fix the leak as he closes the door to the garage on his way out. You get the kids in the car; drop them off at school, and rush back home to contact a plumber. You open the phone book and make a few calls but most of the local plumbers are already tied up for the day. You resort to checking Craigslist and find a Handyman/Plumber with reasonable rates available 24/7. You make a phone call; they answer immediately and tell you they’ll be out to your home within 45 minutes. You’re happy because, the mess will be fixed and you can get on with your day!
You sit with a cup of coffee by the front window of your home and notice a beat up truck trying to find a house number. After several turns around the street you realize it’s the Handyman/Plumber you called to come out to fix your leak. You notice a variety of empty Starbuck’s cups on the dashboard, and when he opens the passenger side of the truck to get out his tool box, the tools are scattered everywhere. He flicks his cigarette butt as he walks up to your front door. He is covered in tattoos; hair is not combed, and looks like he just got out of bed, not to mention that your first instinct reminds you that he looks like a CRIMINAL!
He rings the door bell… and you open the door. Do you LET HIM INSIDE? You know absolutely NOTHING about him… Do you lie and tell him that you were able to fix the problem and thank him for his time? Do you ask for an ID badge to verify his credentials?
NO… You let him inside, you need that faucet fixed so you can get on with your day………Sometimes people are lucky and sometimes they are not. You know those times you read a horror story about what happened to someone exactly like you after they let a stranger inside their home all the time! Can you REALLY take a chance like that????
This story is not uncommon. More and more you read about women or seniors being alone at home during the day and opening their doors to strangers who do them harm. From home service contractors to door- to- door salesmen to even Caregivers, “Do you REALLY KNOW who the person is that you just let into your home or office?”
Claudia Bernard, owner of Protection Plus Solutions says “People need to “wake up” and not allow people not properly identified into their home or office. If their gut feeling tells them something isn’t right then it probably isn’t. They need to have specific questions fully answered before they allow a Repairman, Caregiver or even a Door-To-Door Salesman come inside. Does the person have verification that they’re working for the company they’re representing? Do they have a visible ID badge that says who they are and a phone number to call to verify this information?
Claudia says that her company Protection Plus Solutions provides a unique background screening service that offers “peace of mind” to homeowners and business owners alike because they can verify who the individual is that works in their home or business 24/7. “We monitor employees every month, not annually. Wouldn’t you want to know immediately if your employee had a criminal issue after hire, not a year later? Plus our ID badgeLINK system allows companies “Free of Charge” to post ID badges on their website that links back to ours to show customers that the person coming to their home is Crime-FREE if they use our background screening products.” For additional information regarding BadgeLINK please visit them at www.protectionplussolutions.com
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Protection Plus Solutions: Say, what??? You didn't Run a Background Check, ar...
Protection Plus Solutions: Say, what??? You didn't Run a Background Check, ar...: "Did you know that Fortune 500 companies still don't get the fact that background screening is critical for the protection of the home owner ..."
Say, what??? You didn't Run a Background Check, are you that foolish??
Did you know that Fortune 500 companies still don't get the fact that background screening is critical for the protection of the home owner they service? If you think that you can put an employee out in the field without running a proper background check read this....
Domino's, which settled a lawsuit with a Nebraska woman who was raped by David Taitte, one of its deliverymen, notes that it delivers over 7 million pizzas a week and this was the first incident of its kind.
The company canceled the contract with the local franchise because it failed to check Taitte's driving record, but it does not require its franchise owners to do criminal background checks. Company officials say the procedure would be too expensive and complicated.
Taitte is serving 25-30 years in a Nebraska prison for the rape. At the time he applied for his job at Domino's, he had already been in jail 16 times, including once for sexual assault. He says he knew Domino's would not hire him if he admitted to his convictions. So he left the box blank on the application where it asked if he was a felon.
Taitte argues that denying ex-cons jobs keeps them from rehabilitating themselves. "They already served their time and they're just looking to try to get a new job — start a new life."
But Oakland County prosecutor Jim Anderson, whose office handled both the Ferminick and the Spooner-Dean murders, calls the issue a "no-brainer." Consultant Barry Shamis, like Anderson, believes that people are put at risk when companies fail to do background checks on workers who provide in-home services. "If you don't do criminal background checks, you're making a huge mistake."
Claudia Bernard, owner of Protection Plus Solutions says "We get asked all the time about how a company can save money by running the bear minimum on a background check. We simply tell them, we don't operate that way. Protection Plus Solutions is here to protect the home owner and your business. If you can't afford to run a background check on your employees or 1099 contractors, you shouldn't be in business." Bernard says.that her background screening company monitors sales reps every month, not annually like other background screening companies. She said that her companies ID badging system allows home owners, business owners, and law enforcement the ability to view and verify information about an employee by logging into their website 24/7. Bernard says, " what happens if an employee gets into trouble after they've been hired and have been working for awhile, if an annual background check is performed you'd never know until the following year. Our monthly monitoring system checks for criminal convictions every month. If there is a "hit:" after hire, we pull the ID badge immediately and place Failed on our website. We're all about safety and security when hiring."
To check Protection Plus Solutions monthly monitoring ID badging system copy and paste this number 123987539852 -then paste it into Verify Badge on their website at www.protectionplussolutions.com
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
I got MORE than an Upgrade!
Protection Plus Solutions: WARNING!!!! CRIMINAL HIRED!!!!
Consider this scen...: "WARNING!!!! CRIMINAL HIRED!!!! Consider this scenario. Employer “X” contracts with a Fortune 500 company to perform “door to door cab..."
Consider this scen...: "WARNING!!!! CRIMINAL HIRED!!!! Consider this scenario. Employer “X” contracts with a Fortune 500 company to perform “door to door cab..."
I got MORE than an Upgrade!
In March of 2011 Protection Plus Solutions was made aware of two individuals that had defrauded several families out of nearly $35,000 after they’d been soliciting (door to door) home owners for various services including Cable TV and Renewable Energy. The two gentlemen in question obtained employment by working as 1099 contractors with various door to door marketing companies that targeted more affluent neighborhoods. With the information they obtained from their customers after selling them an upgrade or new product, they took this information and obtained credit cards and various other consumer products. Buyer BEWARE …This is IDENTITY THEFT.
With the high turnover of employees in door to door sales, it is not unusual for a potential employee to have worked at a number of door to door marketing companies in the recent past. Given the amount of customer information obtained, best practices should require that all references and prior employment be checked on each and every employee. In addition, a background check should also be done. One safeguard that Protection Plus Solutions has in place for after hire employment is CrimSPY, which re-runs a background check every month on your employee. Should a criminal hit be found after hire, Protection Plus Solutions notifies both the Corporate Offices and the Contractor immediately.
With the high turnover of employees in door to door sales, it is not unusual for a potential employee to have worked at a number of door to door marketing companies in the recent past. Given the amount of customer information obtained, best practices should require that all references and prior employment be checked on each and every employee. In addition, a background check should also be done. One safeguard that Protection Plus Solutions has in place for after hire employment is CrimSPY, which re-runs a background check every month on your employee. Should a criminal hit be found after hire, Protection Plus Solutions notifies both the Corporate Offices and the Contractor immediately.
PROTECTION PLUS SOLUTIONS ALERT! Failure to run a background check on a new employee who services the consumer may be considered “failure to use reasonable safeguards” in the protection of consumer information. More and more identity thieves have been obtaining employment for the sole purpose of acquiring valuable customer information. With the downward trend in the economy, identity thieves now target door to door sales jobs for this very reason!
Corporate and Sub-Contractors may worry about the cost of background checks for each and every hire, but the cost of not running a proper background check could be much higher. Each time a sales rep provides a new customer with a privacy statement they’re promising the customer in writing that they take reasonable safeguards to protect their consumer information. Reasonable safeguards must include knowing who your employees are and whether or not you have just hired an individual or individuals that have questionable concerns on their background check. A powerful attorney would have a field day with this one and your liability for not conducting a background check is MIND BLOWING especially with today’s litigation happy society!
You owe it to your company and to your customers to run a thorough background check. Don’t let your company end up as a headline in the Newspaper, on TV news or on the Internet! Hire with the knowledge of who your Sales Reps REALLY are…!!
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