Employee screening solutions

We've all read the news reports and seen the results of various surveys highlighting the risks faced by employers from their new recruits. These same recruits represent a significant investment; agency and advertising fees, management time and training all add to the costs. Employers need to ensure that the people they employ are really who they say they are and have the experience and qualifications that made them want to employ them in the first place. Effective interview skills should highly some areas of concern but efficient employee screening goes much further. An objective third party who has not been involved in the recruitment or interview process is the ideal way to ensure that representations are all real facts. We recommend that the following types of information should be checked during an employee screening:

Personal Data: to confirm that the applicant is who he/she says they are
Judicial/Legal Data: civil litigation, credit history, bankruptcy and the like
Employment History: this is particularly important as previous employers are usually only willing to supply the barest of references
Credentials: educational achievements, professional qualifications, professional or occupational licensing.

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Personal Data: to confirm that the applicant is who he/she says they are
Judicial/Legal Data: civil litigation, credit history, bankruptcy and the like
Employment History: this is particularly important as previous employers are usually only willing to supply the barest of references
Credentials: educational achievements, professional qualifications, professional or occupational licensing.

We have seen instances where:

An applicant who used a fraudulently altered copy of his son's birth certificate
An applicant who had severe current financial problems including numerous County Court judgments
An applicant who had omitted his time in prison from his application for a senior management role
An applicant who had various well publicised convictions and lengthy jail sentences for financial fraud

But possibly more importantly our parent company Carratu International Plc has investigated thousands of cases where there was no employee screening or pre-employment vetting system present and staff have gone on to steal large amounts of cash, commit fraud or steal proprietary information.