A staggering 22 million Americans in the country’s labour workforce lost their jobs between January and April 2020 due to covid closures, pushing the unemployment rate up to almost 15% – the highest rate ever recorded in the 72 years since data collection began in 1948 – and a year on, the rate hasn’t changed

Background verifications? This is the next step for employers to check the information provided by the shortlisted applicants.  Those resumes that do make it through the initial selection process have been sufficiently impressive to grab the employer’s attention. With experience and work history that fits the job description. But now it’s time to delve deeper