After three weeks in your new position as Assistant Human Resources Director, the HR Director has asked you to take a candidate all the way through the process, from application to interview, to background check. The firm has an opening for an electrical engineer who is proficient with construction blueprints. The engineer will be helping to build the company's new warehouse, which is about to

begin construction. Which of the following steps would be necessary to take during the background check?
a. do a thorough criminal background check through all 50 states
b. check to see that the applicant has a degree in electrical engineering
c. check references at the applicant's former places of employment
d. all of these
e. b and c only

E