Innovation and technology are the lifelines this year for the filtration industry, according to a recent conversation with Knowlton Technologies Director of Technology and New Business Development, Jamie Lee. Knowlton Technologies is a world leading manufacturer of engineered Specialty and Technical Media, Performance Nonwovens and Filled Composites constructed from metal, glass, polymer, ceramic and natural fibers.
“For most of our peers or competitors, the year will be challenging. Anyone in the direct OE automotive line of filtration market for on-the-road has no business growth to look forward to, in my mind, for several years,” Lee said, while noting that the OE automotive supply chain is down 60 to 70 percent while other industries may be down 30 to 50 percent. He believes this is because cars aren’t selling and there is a tremendous backlog of filtration parts for the on-the-road industry.
The survival of the filtration industry rests with companies possessing the ability to produce higher value, longer life products, he said, because these companies can chew- out market shares with innovation and technology.
Additionally, off-road filtration systems such as those used in construction will rebound more quickly than on-road products in part with the help from the government’s stimulus and recovery plans to improve infrastructures. But even in this field, the catch phrases will be higher value, longer life products, he said. Products which eliminate the need for frequent changes will sell. Discounting a product by 5-15% percent or so will not get sellers to their long-term goals.
“Some people will go out and buy the cheapest filters but that’s not a deal if you ruin an $8,000 engine. The future lies not with companies offering the lowest price for their filters but rather with companies making the best filters.”
Lee said filtration manufacturers would do well to explore making filters for water purification systems, the medical market, earth sciences and energy. He believes these markets provide the best opportunity for future growth.
“Micro fiber filters used in the medical separation field are manufactured from the same high quality fibers as those used to make scotch,” he said.
He points to bio fuel as another example, saying the development of bio fuels will require the use of many new filters, other than those used in common petroleum -based fuel production.
About the Authors
Lisa Sprowls of the Filtration Group of RSI has successfully placed a wide range of positions in the Filtration, Water and Wastewater industries. She has developed a clientele ranging from successful, small, privately held companies to the corporate giants of the industry throughout North America. To learn more about their recruiting services visit them at www.rsipeople.com/filtration
Copyright © Lisa Sprowls 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
General Manager position
Our client is a publicly traded manufacturer focusing in industrial air filtration. They have several operations both domestically and internationally. The division we are working with is a $20 million dollar division of a $200 million dollar organization. They deal in metals/ minerals processing, power generation and industrial markets. They manufacture air filtration products.
They have retained our services to help them fill a General Manager position. This position will be responsible for the direction and oversight of all staff including sales, manufacturing, finance and human resources. They are in need of someone to develop and execute their business strategy/ plans and achieve financial targets, which include growth, profitability and cash flow. This position will have full P&L responsibility, will need to meet annual sales objectives, maintain sales and develop and maintain the organization/staff as needed to achieve growth and profitability. This position will be required to be located in
What we are looking for is someone that has experience in the filtration industry, who has had experience in running both a sales and manufacturing organization with P&L responsibility. They are looking for someone with a good business background and a sound leader in working within a sales group. Someone who can come in, access the organization and the people particularly on the sales side and work closely with executive management to better grow in the industry. This is not a turnaround situation, they have good sound employees and processes. They are in a situation where they are stagnant and are in need of someone to come in and with their experience access the situation. There is tremendous growth potential not just for the organization but for this individual as well.
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Lisa K. Sprowls, VP
Recruiter Solutions International
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Competition for Open Jobs
Competition for Open Jobs
The latest statistics from the United States Bureau of Labor shows that unemployment rose from 7.2% to 7.6% in the first months of 2009. Anyone who reads the paper or watches the news knows that the news is grim for job seekers. Job losses are large and widespread across nearly all major industry sectors, and every day brings news that someone else is laying off part of their workforce.
Companies who are thinking of hiring to fill vacant positions are probably going to be receiving more applications and resumes from job candidates than ever before. How can you be sure that the candidate you decide to hire is the right one for your company? If you have 100 people apply for one vacant position, your human resource department is going to have their work cut out for them!
In these trying times, many candidates will be tempted to “fluff” their resumes in order to get a job. Resume falsification is on the rise and expected to increase as the country continues to slog through economic doldrums. Now more than ever, the need for employment screening is clear. The average company will spend between $7,000 and $15,000 in the first year to hire and train someone for the position after they hire the job candidate. That is a lot of money, particularly if you have to do it more than once for a position. If the first candidate you hire doesn’t work out, or if he does not have the qualifications you thought he had, you have to go through the process again.
You can help to eliminate some of the guesswork out of this by doing background checks on candidates. You don’t have to do it on all 100 applications that come in for that one position, but after you narrow it down to a small pool of potential candidates that appear to meet the experience or education level you need, doing a background check on those candidates can save you time, money and hassle.
Depending on the services you are looking at for your background check, the average cost costs can vary – more if you want an extensive check, less if you want a general check. A good background check run through BackTrack costs under $100, significantly less than the cost of a negligent hiring lawsuit and the potential loss of your company’s good name and reputation. Between interviewing, background checking and possibly assessment testing, you are being as proactive as you can be to ensure that the FIRST person you bring on board with your company will be a good fit.
Companies need to be very diligent when they hire. While the current state of the economy is worrisome, if you are hiring someone to come work for your company you are in a “buyers market” at this point with your choice of talent. Do your research and make sure you are getting your money’s worth.
Lisa Sprowls
The Filtration Group of RSI
www.rsipeople.com/filtration
Filtration recruiter
The latest statistics from the United States Bureau of Labor shows that unemployment rose from 7.2% to 7.6% in the first months of 2009. Anyone who reads the paper or watches the news knows that the news is grim for job seekers. Job losses are large and widespread across nearly all major industry sectors, and every day brings news that someone else is laying off part of their workforce.
Companies who are thinking of hiring to fill vacant positions are probably going to be receiving more applications and resumes from job candidates than ever before. How can you be sure that the candidate you decide to hire is the right one for your company? If you have 100 people apply for one vacant position, your human resource department is going to have their work cut out for them!
In these trying times, many candidates will be tempted to “fluff” their resumes in order to get a job. Resume falsification is on the rise and expected to increase as the country continues to slog through economic doldrums. Now more than ever, the need for employment screening is clear. The average company will spend between $7,000 and $15,000 in the first year to hire and train someone for the position after they hire the job candidate. That is a lot of money, particularly if you have to do it more than once for a position. If the first candidate you hire doesn’t work out, or if he does not have the qualifications you thought he had, you have to go through the process again.
You can help to eliminate some of the guesswork out of this by doing background checks on candidates. You don’t have to do it on all 100 applications that come in for that one position, but after you narrow it down to a small pool of potential candidates that appear to meet the experience or education level you need, doing a background check on those candidates can save you time, money and hassle.
Depending on the services you are looking at for your background check, the average cost costs can vary – more if you want an extensive check, less if you want a general check. A good background check run through BackTrack costs under $100, significantly less than the cost of a negligent hiring lawsuit and the potential loss of your company’s good name and reputation. Between interviewing, background checking and possibly assessment testing, you are being as proactive as you can be to ensure that the FIRST person you bring on board with your company will be a good fit.
Companies need to be very diligent when they hire. While the current state of the economy is worrisome, if you are hiring someone to come work for your company you are in a “buyers market” at this point with your choice of talent. Do your research and make sure you are getting your money’s worth.
Lisa Sprowls
The Filtration Group of RSI
www.rsipeople.com/filtration
Filtration recruiter
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Filtration Group of RSI - Parent Company BackTrack In the News
Mentor company says bad economy usually leads to dishonest applicants
As found in The News-Herald, Recruiter Solutions International's parent company Backtrack Inc., conducts pre-employment screening services for organizations in any industry.
"BackTrack co-owner Bob Gandee estimates that 40 percent of resumes carry some sort of lie in normal times. But now that unemployment has soared and job fairs attract thousands, the stakes are too high for some applicants not to stray from the truth. For that reason, Backtrack has billed now as the time to take preventive measures."
To read the full article
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2009/03/13/news/nh607186.txt
Filtration Group RSI Recruiter Solutions International
As found in The News-Herald, Recruiter Solutions International's parent company Backtrack Inc., conducts pre-employment screening services for organizations in any industry.
"BackTrack co-owner Bob Gandee estimates that 40 percent of resumes carry some sort of lie in normal times. But now that unemployment has soared and job fairs attract thousands, the stakes are too high for some applicants not to stray from the truth. For that reason, Backtrack has billed now as the time to take preventive measures."
To read the full article
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2009/03/13/news/nh607186.txt
Filtration Group RSI Recruiter Solutions International
Friday, February 20, 2009
Filtration Recruiter - Many environmental markets will grow despite the recession
My name is Lisa Sprowls and I am a Filtration Recruiter. I work on many sales/ engineering/executive/ and management level positions serving the search and recruitment needs of both large and small manufacturers and distributors in the Filtration/Water & Wastewater/ Separations/and Environmental Industries.
With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.
Many environmental markets will grow despite the recession
Source: The McIlvaine Company Published Feb. 18, 2009
Air and water pollution control companies have been reporting record profits. While they won't be setting records in 2009 and 2010, they will be balancing lost sales in some markets with growth in others. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company based on its continual forecasting of individual markets by product, industry and country. One of the biggest revenue generators will continue to be the power plant scrubber market. Worldwide orders will drop from US$11 billion in 2008 to US$8 billion in 2009 and US$7 billion in 2010. However, revenue for suppliers will reflect the large order level in 2008 through 2010. This is due to the fact that revenues are generally recorded over a three to four year period on each project. Orders throughout the next decade will remain far above the pre-2000 levels.
A similar trend exists for selective catalytic reduction systems for coal-fired power plants. Purchases in China, U.S., and Europe will be strong. Power plant particulate control sales are likely to accelerate due to new fine particle regulations.
Sales of air pollution control equipment for waste-to-energy and biomass power plants will be up. This will be offset by losses in steel, mining and cement. However, the stimulus package could offset some of the impact in the cement markets. Sales of fabric filter replacement bags will be relatively unaffected by the recession.
Sales of macro filtration equipment for municipal wastewater including belt presses, sand filters, and filter presses will exceed $700 million in 2009 offsetting some shrinkage in the mining industry. The U.S. stimulus effort will be a substantial boost to sales in the U.S. Infrastructure plans in most developing countries will continue as planned. Some countries such as China will expand their investment to provide stimulus.
Sales of sedimentation and centrifugation equipment including clarifiers, centrifuges, and hydro cyclones will be down slightly, but the wastewater segment will grow this year by $30 million to over $1 billion. Infrastructure stimulus benefits will also boost this market but will be offset by mining market shrinkage.
Cross-flow filtration sales will be up due to continued growth in wastewater and desalination. Total sales will exceed $9 billion in 2009 despite slumping sales in the residential reverse osmosis segment. Desalination expenditures in some smaller Middle Eastern countries may be slowed, but on balance this segment will continue to grow.
Sales of air and water monitoring equipment will grow modestly. The measurement of ambient pollution in developing countries is a strong growth area. China will continue to improve its stack monitoring efforts.
Filtration Recruiter - Many environmental markets will grow despite the recession
Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com
Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater
With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.
Many environmental markets will grow despite the recession
Source: The McIlvaine Company Published Feb. 18, 2009
Air and water pollution control companies have been reporting record profits. While they won't be setting records in 2009 and 2010, they will be balancing lost sales in some markets with growth in others. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company based on its continual forecasting of individual markets by product, industry and country. One of the biggest revenue generators will continue to be the power plant scrubber market. Worldwide orders will drop from US$11 billion in 2008 to US$8 billion in 2009 and US$7 billion in 2010. However, revenue for suppliers will reflect the large order level in 2008 through 2010. This is due to the fact that revenues are generally recorded over a three to four year period on each project. Orders throughout the next decade will remain far above the pre-2000 levels.
A similar trend exists for selective catalytic reduction systems for coal-fired power plants. Purchases in China, U.S., and Europe will be strong. Power plant particulate control sales are likely to accelerate due to new fine particle regulations.
Sales of air pollution control equipment for waste-to-energy and biomass power plants will be up. This will be offset by losses in steel, mining and cement. However, the stimulus package could offset some of the impact in the cement markets. Sales of fabric filter replacement bags will be relatively unaffected by the recession.
Sales of macro filtration equipment for municipal wastewater including belt presses, sand filters, and filter presses will exceed $700 million in 2009 offsetting some shrinkage in the mining industry. The U.S. stimulus effort will be a substantial boost to sales in the U.S. Infrastructure plans in most developing countries will continue as planned. Some countries such as China will expand their investment to provide stimulus.
Sales of sedimentation and centrifugation equipment including clarifiers, centrifuges, and hydro cyclones will be down slightly, but the wastewater segment will grow this year by $30 million to over $1 billion. Infrastructure stimulus benefits will also boost this market but will be offset by mining market shrinkage.
Cross-flow filtration sales will be up due to continued growth in wastewater and desalination. Total sales will exceed $9 billion in 2009 despite slumping sales in the residential reverse osmosis segment. Desalination expenditures in some smaller Middle Eastern countries may be slowed, but on balance this segment will continue to grow.
Sales of air and water monitoring equipment will grow modestly. The measurement of ambient pollution in developing countries is a strong growth area. China will continue to improve its stack monitoring efforts.
Filtration Recruiter - Many environmental markets will grow despite the recession
Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com
Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Filtration Recruiter - Chemists Devise New Material For Efficient Hydrogen Purification
My name is Lisa Sprowls and I am a Filtration Recruiter. I work on many sales/ engineering/executive/ and management level positions serving the search and recruitment needs of both large and small manufacturers and distributors in the Filtration/Water & Wastewater/ Separations/and Environmental Industries.
With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.
From www.dailytech.com, February 17, 2009, Jason Mick:
"Chemists Devise New Material For Efficient Hydrogen Purification
New material should give a boost to the hydrogen economy
Many believe that hydrogen is the eventual replacement for gasoline and that future vehicles will be fuel cell-based plug-in hybrids. However, in order to transition to such a hydrogen-based economy, many key challenges remain. The biggest challenges are devising and implementing means to make, store, and ship hydrogen to distribution centers.
One of the key challenges in making hydrogen is the need for purification. Many chemical reactions that produce hydrogen also produce a mixture of hydrocarbon gases and water vapor. In the past separating these substances has been a tricky and inefficient process.
Now chemists at Northwestern University have developed a class of porous materials that may solve this problem by letting hydrogen gas through selectively, while impeding other gases. According to the researchers, the materials exhibit the best known selectivity towards hydrogen over methane and carbon dioxide of any known material.
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, a professor of chemistry at the university and co-developer of the material, states, "A more selective process means fewer cycles to produce pure hydrogen, increasing efficiency. Our materials could be used very effectively as membranes for gas separation. We have demonstrated their superior performance."
While current separation techniques rely on separating molecules by size, the new porous membrane material separates them by polarizability. The new membrane, composed of germanium, lead and tellurium, lets hydrogen through faster, as it is a hard, small molecule which interacts little with the charged walls. The membrane is a hexagonal nanoporous structure, with parallel tubes about two to three nanometers wide. The gas molecules are at least half a nanometer wide. The membrane selects hydrogen at a rate approximately four times higher than the current best methods.
Professor Kanatzidis describes the material stating, "We are taking advantage of what we call 'soft' atoms, which form the membrane's walls. These soft-wall atoms like to interact with other soft molecules passing by, slowing them down as they pass through the membrane. Hydrogen, the smallest element, is a 'hard' molecule. It zips right through while softer molecules, like carbon dioxide and methane take more time."
The membrane operates within a "convenient temperature range" of zero degrees Celsius and room temperature.
Professor Kanatzidis worked closely with postdoctoral research associate Gerasimos S. Armatas on developing and testing the material. The pair has published a paper entitled "Mesoporous Germanium-Rich Chalcogenido Frameworks with Highly Polarizable Surfaces and Relevance to Gas Separation". It is published online at the journal Nature Materials."
Filtration Recruiter - Chemists Devise New Material For Efficient Hydrogen Purification
Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com
Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater
With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.
From www.dailytech.com, February 17, 2009, Jason Mick:
"Chemists Devise New Material For Efficient Hydrogen Purification
New material should give a boost to the hydrogen economy
Many believe that hydrogen is the eventual replacement for gasoline and that future vehicles will be fuel cell-based plug-in hybrids. However, in order to transition to such a hydrogen-based economy, many key challenges remain. The biggest challenges are devising and implementing means to make, store, and ship hydrogen to distribution centers.
One of the key challenges in making hydrogen is the need for purification. Many chemical reactions that produce hydrogen also produce a mixture of hydrocarbon gases and water vapor. In the past separating these substances has been a tricky and inefficient process.
Now chemists at Northwestern University have developed a class of porous materials that may solve this problem by letting hydrogen gas through selectively, while impeding other gases. According to the researchers, the materials exhibit the best known selectivity towards hydrogen over methane and carbon dioxide of any known material.
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, a professor of chemistry at the university and co-developer of the material, states, "A more selective process means fewer cycles to produce pure hydrogen, increasing efficiency. Our materials could be used very effectively as membranes for gas separation. We have demonstrated their superior performance."
While current separation techniques rely on separating molecules by size, the new porous membrane material separates them by polarizability. The new membrane, composed of germanium, lead and tellurium, lets hydrogen through faster, as it is a hard, small molecule which interacts little with the charged walls. The membrane is a hexagonal nanoporous structure, with parallel tubes about two to three nanometers wide. The gas molecules are at least half a nanometer wide. The membrane selects hydrogen at a rate approximately four times higher than the current best methods.
Professor Kanatzidis describes the material stating, "We are taking advantage of what we call 'soft' atoms, which form the membrane's walls. These soft-wall atoms like to interact with other soft molecules passing by, slowing them down as they pass through the membrane. Hydrogen, the smallest element, is a 'hard' molecule. It zips right through while softer molecules, like carbon dioxide and methane take more time."
The membrane operates within a "convenient temperature range" of zero degrees Celsius and room temperature.
Professor Kanatzidis worked closely with postdoctoral research associate Gerasimos S. Armatas on developing and testing the material. The pair has published a paper entitled "Mesoporous Germanium-Rich Chalcogenido Frameworks with Highly Polarizable Surfaces and Relevance to Gas Separation". It is published online at the journal Nature Materials."
Filtration Recruiter - Chemists Devise New Material For Efficient Hydrogen Purification
Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com
Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Filtration Recruiter - Diploma Mill in Washington State
My name is Lisa Sprowls and I am a Filtration Recruiter. I work on many sales/ engineering/executive/ and management level positions serving the search and recruitment needs of both large and small manufacturers and distributors in the Filtration/Water & Wastewater/ Separations/and Environmental Industries.
With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.
Diploma Mill in Washington State
In early July, Dixie Ellen Randock was sentenced to 3 years in prison for Conspiracy to Commit Wire and Mail Fraud. Her husband, Steve Randock, is scheduled to be sentenced in about a week. Dixie is a high school drop out. What did they do? They have been found guilty of this crime for selling bogus college degrees and high school diplomas from a Spokane, WA diploma mill. The newspaper The Seattle Times (www.seattletimes.com) has since published a couple of lists. One list shows all the people who have purchased degrees and diplomas from this diploma mill – all 9,612 people. Some of these people have multiple degrees that were awarded from this mill.
The US Department of Justice had refused to release the list to the public, and the newspaper is not saying how they obtained the list. The newspaper has conducted a preliminary analysis that shows 135 of these individuals have military ties, 39 have links to the education system, and 17 are employed with government agencies. They got this information through the email addresses that are listed for the individuals (.mil, .gov, or .edu). Their listing does indicate that some of the people who have (*) by their names didn’t necessarily buy degrees, but that their names surfaced for various reasons during the investigation.
What these people were purchasing were bogus degrees from non-existent, online, high schools, colleges and universities. They were also buying counterfeit degrees from real colleges and universities and that documentation was forged. Some of the more than 100 fake schools that degrees were issued from have names that sound like an accredited college that we have all heard of.
Keep in mind that it is not illegal to possess a fake degree. If you wish to spend $1,000 to $10,000 for a piece of paper to hang on your wall you are entitled to it. It is illegal to use the degree fraudulently. You can not use it to obtain employment, increased benefits, promotion, or for any other purposes. Unfortunately, with the almost 10,000 people out there with “degrees” from this diploma mill, it is going to be up to the private employer to determine if their employees have degrees or diplomas from a fake institution. That burden is going to rest on the human resource staff.
Filtration Recruiter - Diploma Mill in Washington State
Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com
Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater
With each and every finalist candidate that we present to our clients, we also provide a complete background check. Our background checks are provided by our parent company, BackTrack Inc., www.backtracker.com. All reports provided include employment verification, education verification, social security trace report, motor vehicle report, reference checking and criminal records searches.
Diploma Mill in Washington State
In early July, Dixie Ellen Randock was sentenced to 3 years in prison for Conspiracy to Commit Wire and Mail Fraud. Her husband, Steve Randock, is scheduled to be sentenced in about a week. Dixie is a high school drop out. What did they do? They have been found guilty of this crime for selling bogus college degrees and high school diplomas from a Spokane, WA diploma mill. The newspaper The Seattle Times (www.seattletimes.com) has since published a couple of lists. One list shows all the people who have purchased degrees and diplomas from this diploma mill – all 9,612 people. Some of these people have multiple degrees that were awarded from this mill.
The US Department of Justice had refused to release the list to the public, and the newspaper is not saying how they obtained the list. The newspaper has conducted a preliminary analysis that shows 135 of these individuals have military ties, 39 have links to the education system, and 17 are employed with government agencies. They got this information through the email addresses that are listed for the individuals (.mil, .gov, or .edu). Their listing does indicate that some of the people who have (*) by their names didn’t necessarily buy degrees, but that their names surfaced for various reasons during the investigation.
What these people were purchasing were bogus degrees from non-existent, online, high schools, colleges and universities. They were also buying counterfeit degrees from real colleges and universities and that documentation was forged. Some of the more than 100 fake schools that degrees were issued from have names that sound like an accredited college that we have all heard of.
Keep in mind that it is not illegal to possess a fake degree. If you wish to spend $1,000 to $10,000 for a piece of paper to hang on your wall you are entitled to it. It is illegal to use the degree fraudulently. You can not use it to obtain employment, increased benefits, promotion, or for any other purposes. Unfortunately, with the almost 10,000 people out there with “degrees” from this diploma mill, it is going to be up to the private employer to determine if their employees have degrees or diplomas from a fake institution. That burden is going to rest on the human resource staff.
Filtration Recruiter - Diploma Mill in Washington State
Lisa Sprowls
Filtration Recruiter
Recruiter Solutions International
8850 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060
800-992-3875 ext. 313
lisa@rsipeople.com
Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Environmental Recruiter, Fluid Power Recruiter. As an executive recruiter/headhunter dedicated to serving the search and recruitment needs in both large and small manufacturers and distributors. Dan specializes in the search and placement of sales, engineering, management and upper level management positions. Keywords: Filtration Recruiter, Water Recruiter, Wastewater Recruiter, Pumps, Filters, Microfiltration, Water, Oil, Gas, Air, Industrial, Cartridge, Filtration & Separation, Membrane, Reverse Osmosis, Filtration Equipment, Filter Media, Filtration Supplies, Wastewater, Fuel, Environmental, Storm Water, Dewatering Equipment, Woven, Non Woven, Ultrafiltration, Recruiter Solutions International, RSI, Lisa Sprowls, Dan Regovich, Headhunter Filtration, Filtration Headhunter, Filtration Industry Recruiter, Wastewater and Filtration, Water Treatment, Wastewater
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