July . 2009

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The 84th WAD Annual Conference will be held at Rio De Janeiro , Brazil from Sep. 1, 2009 to Sep 5, 2009.

President of Steele published an article titled Overseas Property Insurance Claim Investigation on Journal of ABI Association (May Edition).

President of Steele took part in the Wind Power Works, a photo contest in Belgium , and was included among the top 25. Please click < http://www.globalwindday.org/index.php?id=3 > for details.

Explanation about some Questions of Application Law on Judging Dispute Cases on Building Ownership Distinction and Explanation about some Questions of Application Law on Judging Dispute Cases on Property Service, both launched by the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China , will come into force on October 1, 2009.

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China will establish a system called Blacklist of Quality Credit, which records names of companies that have serious problems in quality and safety incidents, products quality as well as law and regulation violation. Companies on the list will be under strict control and surveillance and the list will be published to the public.

A new regulation named Tentative Methods for Dynamic Supervision and Management on Property Service and Company Intelligence implemented on June 1, 2009 regulating a score deduction method must be adopted in Beijing . Property services and companies deducted more than 12 scores could not subcontract new projects within one year.

Law Consulting Service Center for Taiwan Businessmen was set up in Yunnan Province . It provides services like law consultant and assistant for Taiwan businessmen, Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan-founded companies in Yunnan Province .

How Background Check to be Fully Used in Company Recruitment

Most companies adopt a five-procedure method in their recruitment: information publication-resumes filter-interviewing-written examination-experience. However, a very important procedure, background check, is too often neglected.

The object of background check is to obtain the more thorough information of job-hunters and to crack down on fraud. There are some key procedures when doing background checks that need to be grasped. First thing is when to start, the second is how to design check content and the last one is how to operate.

Facing the reality of oversupply in talent market, job-hunters are forced to decorate themselves by making luxurious resumes and filling more work experience, which contains a good many unreal information. To cater to the requirements of employers, those people who are not well educated and short of work experience often falsify their diplomas and professional certificates that result in fake certificates overflow everywhere.

According to the census information, the number of people holding fake certificates reaches 600,000, which equals to the total number of graduates from general colleges and universities in the 1990s. A piece of information from U.S.A. shows that 30 million people with fabricated resumes were employed. In China , we are in no aware of how much this figure is up to. To anti-fake in the first place, background check is a powerful weapon to ward off the fake things, therefore, gave up background check means losing a basic immune function.

It would be better to place background check between the period of interview and employment, in which most unqualified candidates that have no need to be checked are washed out. The workload of doing background check on a few of left candidates was relatively small based on the information got from previous interviewing results. So conducting background check in this period will be much easier when choosing investigation items. In the light of check results, the company could decide which candidate is the most qualified. Do background check on people before employment could prevent company and human resource from involving dilemma.

The content of background check should be brief and practical. Brief investigation content is to control workload as well as reduce cost and turn around time, otherwise, company’s business would be affected due to shortage of staff. Besides, long time investigation period gives competitor more chance to access talents who are usually wanted by several companies. Practice investigation items must be highly relevant to the need of occupation. The item of background check are two kinds, one is general item like the authenticity of educational degree and the validity of qualification. The other one is relevant work experience, skills and achievements.

Companies can entrust related agencies to conduct background checks. It’s ok to choose a consulting company with good reputation and tell it your investigation items and turn around time. Companies also can assign their human resource departments to work on it if it’s a small one. We suggest divide the subject departments into three parts that you can investigate respectively.

The first is department in charge of school’s students’ information. Verification on candidates’ education with this department can get the most reliable information. Candidates who hold fake certificates would turn into original shape.

The second is previous employers. In principle, you can learn the candidates’ achievements, performance and ability from their previous employers, but you must identify whether the employers’ evaluation is objective because some employers may deliberately depreciate their employees to keep them from being hunted away.

The third is Archives. Generally, you can get the systematic and original information from Archives. Now, archives documents are kept by human resource department of state-owned company and talent exchange centers, which have a strict secrecy procedure in archives delivery. Therefore, these archives documents are relatively credible.

Nowadays talent exchange centers fails to in time update the archives kept there and employees’ information during employment could not be renewed in their own archives, which has lower integrality. In contrast, archives stored at human resource departments of state-owned companies are well supplemented. Employees’ evaluation of each year is always added to their own archives.

Note: this article is a forwarded one

Identity Information Management and Background Check in Britain

There is no identity card system in Britain , which is different with many other countries. Identity cards with its corresponding numbers are being calling by different names. For example, in China they are called “Identity Card Number”, in U.S.A, they are called “Social Security Number”. Whatever they are called, they are the identification codes that can confirm citizens’ identity.

Britain doesn’t establish such an identification code for its citizens, who only have passports instead of identity cards. But this situation will be changed. According to the report of British broadcasting company, Britain will begin test run on its identity card system in Manchester , where local people are voluntary rather than mandatory to apply for their own identity cards. Britain wishes it could extend this system to nationwide, however, this system that would cost 5 billion pounds (about 51.2 billion yuan) was resisted by opposition party.

Home Office of Britain put forwards that identity card system could be helpful in decreasing fraud cases, which can save resources and money. So it would become a key tool against terrorism and organized crime.

Because one identity card number only has one corresponding body, it will bear milestone significance on learning a person’s information in investigation industry. Now, the clues that Britain usually uses in background check on a person are name, address and birth date. Because of lack of identity card number (passport number is not a directly term when doing a search), many people with similar condition often turn up in the search result (for instance, people with the same name), which increases difficulty to find the accurate investigation result. But this situation in Britain may get improved from the attitude of its government on popularization of identity card system. Home Office of Britain expects identity card will be prevalent across nationwide in 2012.

Urgent Treatment Measures When Losing Passport Abroad

Step One: Firstly call police and request for a “Paper Alert” as a certification for the lost passport.

Step Two: Go to local embassy to report the loss of passport by Paper Alert and certification documents provided by travel agency and receive a provisional certificate that equals to passport.

Step Three: Embassy will give a call to travel agency verifying the information of the tourist whose passport got lost for new passport reissue.

Step Four: After successfully coming back from abroad, the tourist could apply for the new passport at exit & entry administration department of domicile address.

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