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Employment Pre Screening
Whether the company is small or big the employer usually conducts a Employment Pre-Screening Test and it is within the rights of the employer to conduct the Employment Pre-Screening Test to ensure that they are hiring the correct employee who’s personal goals align with that of the company’s goals. So for getting into the company the first step is to pass the Employment Pre-Screening Test.
The components of Employment Pre Screening Test are psychometric test, drug test and background checking. Apart from all these there can be some more tests which can be conducted by the HR professionals to get facts about the applicant, about his suitability for a particular job.
Background checking is a usual way for pre-employment Screening. This is done along with other pre-employment screening tests which are either performed online or at the company’s premises. The Aptitude test are either through electronic means or it can be a written one. It tests ones reasoning capability. The other test may examine the applicant’s technical skill as may be required for the job the candidate is applying for.
The instruments which are utilized during Employment Pre Screening Tests are reliable and include Applicant Risk Profiler and Career Ethic inventory. Applicant Risk profiler is used to assess whether an individual can maintain a safe workplace in spite of his negative behavior. The career Ethic inventory measures an individual’s attitude. All these Employment Pre-Screening Test tests whether you are fit enough to gel with the work-culture and organizational culture of the company.
Space relations,symbolic reasoning and mechanical visualizations, numerical skills and verbal comprehension are tested using more specific aptitude test which forms a part of Employment Pre-Screening Test. At a higher level a Professional Employment Test is also done. This PET is used to assess a candidate’s cognitive ability and behavior which he will use for in his future professional responsibilities.
Few HR professional may have not abided by the common standards usually followed by the companies. This may be their method to select the most eligible candidate for certain unique positions. The distinctive method might include the employment pre-screening tests which contain their unique way of finding the candidates proficiency in many factors that can influence work related productivity.
Thus if you desire to work for certain company and pursue you career their be prepared to prove yourself in the Pre-Employment screening tests. If you come out with flying colors it will be easy for you to get the coveted position you always wanted. But be aware that such Pre-employment test are transitory in nature and there will be many more that will come your way in your career where in you will be subjected to various screening procedures.
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Pre Employment Drug Testing
Pre Employment Drug Testing. Drug examine has become a familiar phenomenon around the globe. Many companies execute drug trials on freshly employed people or active employees to reassure a drug-free surrounding at workplace.
pre-employment physical and drug screen
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LABcorp pre-employment drug screen – Marijuana.com
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Why you need a drug testing policy
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Drug test for school vs. pre-employment
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Drug Abuse in Teens
‘Passive Pusher’ Parents Enabling Drug Abuse in Teens
A new survey reports that inattentive parents are to blame for their children abusing common prescription drugs.
According to questions asked by researchers from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), more teens today say it’s easy to get prescription drugs without a prescription than it was a year ago.
And before you start blaming the Internet, the survey pointed out that in the majority of cases where teens obtained illegal prescription drugs, they got them from their parents’ medicine cabinet.
D’oh!
That’s right, folks. It’s your fault your kid is hopped up on Percocet or Vicodin.
The Columbia University study involved 1,002 kids age 12-17 from April to June of 2008.
The problem, according to Elizabeth Planet, the study’s lead author, is the disconnect between teens and their parents. Most of the parents were not aware of how often teens abuse prescription drugs. But prescription drug abuse among teenagers has been an issue for years, say experts.
Not only did parents not think their teens were taking their meds, there were also large discrepancies in the reporting of how often the teens were out of the house.
Fifty percent of the teens surveyed said they were hanging out with their friends on weekday evenings, while only 14% of the parents said they knew their kids weren’t home.
"Parents are not paying attention," said Planet to reporters. "There are parents who are out in the evening themselves. There are parents out at work."
While marijuana remains the easiest drug for kids to get (in fact, 43% of 17-year-olds surveyed said they could get their hands on some within an hour), prescription drugs are now third on the list, harder to get than cigarettes but easier than beer.
Fifty percent of teens who reported staying out past 10:00 at night said there was drinking and drug abuse occurring among the people they were with. For those who returned home between the hours of 8:00 and 10:00 pm, 29% said there was alcohol and drug use happening.
National Institute on Drug Abuse representative Nora Volkow told reporters that part of the concern with prescription drug abuse is that kids think it’s safe if their parents have it. "Kids think that because these are medicines that are prescribed, they are safe," said Volkow. "[But] the problem is that there is very little difference between the amount they take for a high and the amount that causes an overdose."
CASA’s president Joseph A. Califano had harsher words for those inattentive "problem parents": "Preventing substance abuse among teens is primarily a mom and pop operation. It is inexcusable that so many parents fail to appropriately monitor their children, fail to keep dangerous prescription drugs out of the reach of their children and tolerate drug infected schools," said Califano to reporters.
He added, "By identifying the characteristics of problem parents we seek to identify the actions that parents can take – and avoid – in order to become part of the solution and raise healthy, drug-free children."
By Anastacia Mott Austin
By Buzzle Staff and Agencies
Published: 8/15/2008
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Casual Drinkers
Casual Drinkers A Problem Too
The loss to companies in the United States due to alcohol and drug-related abuse by employees’ totals $100 billion a year, according to the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information.
Remarkably, a research article posted by Christian Science Monitor in 2003 shows that it is the social drinkers who are responsible for most of lost productivity.
This study also found that it was managers, who were most often drinking during the workday, not hourly employees. The study also found that 21 percent of employees said their own productivity had been affected because of a co-worker’s drinking. Twenty-three percent of upper managers and 11 percent of first-line supervisors reported having a drink during the workday, compared with only eight percent of hourly employees.
Substance abuse by employees causes many expensive problems for businesses ranging from lost productivity, absenteeism, accidents, and an increase in the health insurance claims.
Impact of Alcohol and drug abuse on employers: There are many impacts due to drug in workplace.
Lowers productivity: Studies have shown that substance-abusing employees function at about 67% of their capacity. Problems related to alcohol and drug abuse cost American businesses roughly $81 billion in lost productivity in just one year.
Higher Rates of Employee Turnover: Employees who tested positive on their pre-employment drug tests were 77 % more likely to be discharged within the first three years of employment and absent from work 66 % more often than those who tested negative according to US Postal Service
Increases absenteeism and turnover: An estimated 500 million workdays are lost annually due to alcoholism. Illicit drug users are more than twice as likely than those who do not use drugs to have changed employers three or more times in the past year.
Causes accidents and injuries: Employees who use drugs are 3.6 times more likely to be involved in a workplace accident and 5 times more likely to file a workers’ compensation claim. Up to 40 percent of industrial fatalities and 47 percent of industrial injuries are linked to alcohol use and alcoholism.
Increases an employer’s medical costs: Employees who abused to drugs, costs twice in medical claims to their employers, compared to the other normal employees.
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from casual drinker
At what point do I go from casual drinker at work to addict?
The Devil Wears White
My father was sixteen or seventeen when he started drinking alcohol. I’ve been reminded countless times that there are “responsible casual drinkers” and then there are “alcoholics”. Dad obviously fell into this pre-defined “alcoholic”…
can a problem drinker learn moderation
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Should You Tell Your Kids About Past Drug Use?
My husband and I have always been very casual drinkers, sometimes going for long stretches without any alcohol. When the oldest was about 10, we were sitting in a restaurant having a glass of wine with our meal and it suddenly occurred to me that before … It’s an ongoing conversation in our home, as I also work at his high school and know what’s going on with the kids there. Many times, we discuss issues like kids showing up at a dance, etc and drinking.
Dealing with Substance Abuse in the Workplace
This problem also extends to the workers who drink alcohol on a casual basis. They may not be as bothersome compared to the hard-core drinkers, but casual drinkers are responsible for most of lost productivity, especially when it comes to the issue of hangover and the loss of production. … To address the issue of substance abuse in the work place, the company should establish a comprehensive program that would benefit both the employer and the employees.
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At Home Drug Testing
Is Home Drug Testing A Parental Necessity Or Overreaction?
Since the beginning of time, good kids have been known to do dumb things. The same can be said of nave and well-meaning parents. Because they don’t know what to say, some parents fail to talk to their children about drugs. Others develop a false sense of security after they do.
It’s much more comfortable for parents to hold the belief that things haven’t changed much since they were young than it is to accept the fact that they have. It’s also much easier for parents to believe that their teenagers always tell them the truth and would never try drugs, but who ever said parenting was supposed to be easy?
Parents ask me when they should talk to their kids, what they should say, and what they can do to follow through. Ben Franklin said, ‘Wise is the man who fixes his roof before it rains.’ I couldn’t agree more. I suggest that parents would be well served to sit down with their children and start talking about a home drug testing program as early as middle school.
To protect privacy, home drug testing kits can be ordered on the Internet and shipped in nondescriptive packaging. The accuracy of the most popular test kits is comparable to labs and medical clinics at a fraction of the price. Results usually appear within minutes and are easy to read by the average parent in the convenience of their own home.
If the idea of drug testing your teens sounds unreasonable, consider how much times have changed. If someone told me when I was in high school by the time my son attended middle school, that police officers (now affectionately referred to as school resource officers) and dogs trained to detect drugs would patrol school hallways, I would have never believed it. Metal detectors and school shootings aren’t nightmares: they have become a reality.
A successful program will have several key components. The first component is comprised of parents willing to place a higher priority on acting as a parent than as their teenager’s best friend. I find it hypocritical that parents who are quick to assert that it’s more important for their kids do the right thing than it is to do what’s popular are reluctant to start a home drug testing program because the newfound accountability might not be popular with their kids.
The second component is the introductory conversation in which parents acknowledge that their kids are growing up and are deserving of additional freedom. However, additional responsibility and accountability should come with expanded freedom.
Dr. Michael Reznicek, a medical doctor with emergency room experience, actually developed a software program that facilitates the initial parent-child conversation and eliminates potential misunderstandings by creating a contract that spells out specific rewards and consequences tied to home drug test results. The software also becomes the preferred target of potential animosity over requests for hair, urine, or saliva samples for drug testing purposes because it also selects random testing dates.
From the time children are very young, they’re taught to ‘just say no’ to drugs, and I’m convinced that the peer pressure usually gets worse when they do. Teens don’t know what to say next. Parents who follow through with a home drug testing program give their teens a socially acceptable excuse. The words ‘My parents test me’ stop pushy peers in their tracks.
The final component of a successful program is effective parental follow-through. Teens want their parents to trust them. If they think their parents are nave and/or won’t test them, they are more likely to try drugs because they don’t expect to get caught. While teens place a high value on maintaining their parents’ trust, they just don’t feel it is in jeopardy without testing. Teens’ behavior and choices change when they know that it is a near certainty rather than a virtual impossibility that their drug use will be discovered.
By: Mason Duchatschek
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Mason Duchatschek has interviewed thousands of parents, teenagers, school board members, counselors, school principals and superintendents. He is the president of TestMyTeen.com (mason@testmyteen.com) based in Fenton, Missouri.
Is Your Child on Drugs?
Temptations surround them, and unfortunately, many have fallen to the traps of drug abuse. To determine if your teen is abusing drugs, consider the following signs:. 1) Sudden change of physical appearance…
Higher Use Of Booze
Yet ironically it is students’ participation in these programs – not the implementation of random drug testing – that has been shown to reduce kids use of pot and other drugs," he said.
teens’ marijuana use steady
A great deal of this increase, I believe, is due to random drug testing of students. Everybody knows that pot, out of any substance you can take for intoxication, is the one that remains detectable for the longest period of time.
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