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Re:Background checks pay for Checkr, which just raised $100M by patmcc on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:37PM (#16826967)
>>>a criminal history was not an bar to employment. These were not empty words.

>>>required us to care about the pasts of the candidates

Kind of sounds like they were empty words.

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Re:Background checks pay for Checkr, which just raised $100M by Kalium on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:58PM (#16831770)
We would not have cared about, say, a past conviction for handling marijuana or anything vehicle related. We might have cared about a recent conviction for fraud. Honesty was paramount for that position, and choosing to lie to us was definitely a bar.
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