Image source: Flickr user Daliscar1 President-elect Trump has been pulling back on many of his anti-immigration policies following his win. This is unsurprising, as campaigners historically tend to over-promise. However, the US is in a unique position right now, one which is fairly unprecedented. A record number of refugees from Syria and other conflict-ridden regions…
DetailsImage Source: Flickr user Ville Miettinen I read a statistic the other day that surprised me. In English speaking countries, about 54% of companies in the customer service industry outsource their call centers, and India is the number one location those companies choose. India has a significant well-educated, English-speaking population. Due to a lower cost…
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Here’s something you probably don’t want to hear: For less than $100, anyone can go online and find websites that will help fake job references, produce false education credentials, and even create fictional companies with an online presence to give applicants an edge in getting hired. Operations like this began popping up in the early…
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Image Source: Unsplash user Sai Kiran Anagani I recently learned something surprising about property insurance fraud. As it turns out, people were committing this type of fraud long before the industry even existed. The first known case happened all the way back in 300 B.C., when a Greek merchant decided to sink his own ship…
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How do you solve a problem like refugee screening? Well, refugee screening is an exercise in risk management, but with one important constraint: in the case of Syrian refugees…
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