Like every profession, the business of research changes each year.  I work hard to keep up on the latest sources and the best techniques.  I'm looking forward to using what I've learned as well as what I know from doing this a long time to make your businesses run best in 2019.

I believe in the power of public records for several reasons. Two of my favorite reasons are the fact they are there, that there are many ways to find information on people and companies if you look in the right places, and second, that when something comes from public sources you can rely on it to make decisions. It’s legitimacy is certain. So, I’m always keeping up on what’s happening, where can I search more, where have I been cut off

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I’ve been online so long, I remember when blog was both a verb and a noun. And we lived in the blogosphere. That is (or was) a community of bloggers and commenters. We did not just put things on Twitter to be clever. We engaged with yesterday’s blog post and looked forward to seeing what they said back to us tomorrow. Do any blogs engage anymore?

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If you do not enter a name correctly, if you mean Susan when they said Susanne, you will not find the references in your searches. Yet, there are times when you also need to enter less of a name to get to the right stuff. Knowing what’s in a name is a key tactic in good research.

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There’s a truism ingrained in my head from almost 30 years of doing this, that is, you’re only as good as your subjects are bad. All it took was typing the company name to find that finding, but to the client I was a genius. I want you to notice when I don’t find the smoking gun. It’s not just in most cases, there’s no sensitive, material findings (as I would say), but the bigger challenge in most of my cases is what I don’t find.

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Resume fraud is often discovered only when there are other issues. Even if you look for it, it may be hard to find resume fraud.   There may be more resume frauds out there. Are you looking.

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