Pre-employment screening is an important part of the recruitment process for many employers.
It generally refers to any vetting procedure or practice relating to candidate selection, including drawing up job descriptions and application forms, checking references and candidates’ backgrounds for discrepancies, interviewing, and verifying candidates’ details.
Denise Osterwald highlights the challenges employers need to be aware of after the changes to UK immigration system in April 2024.
Day-one rights signals the need for a more strategic approach to hiring, one that emphasises thorough pre-employment screening, careful referencing, and the potential extension of probation periods.
KPMG recently urged employers to recruit prison leavers as part of a national campaign to reduce reoffending, but what are some of the benefits?
The home secretary has commissioned the development of an automated national police vetting system in England and Wales.
easyJet has launched a Europe-wide recruitment campaign to help potential candidates discover what it takes to become a pilot.
New guidance on responsible AI in recruitment aims to help employers avoid introducing systems that perpetuate biases and discrimination.
Stigma and concerns about risk and reputation are putting construction firms off hiring ex-offenders, a report finds.
Octopus Energy expects to create up to 4,000 jobs this year, launching a same-day hiring festival to quickly onboard talent.
Ninety-six per cent of employers are using skills assessments in their hiring process to gauge trasnferrable skills.
Inquiry into rape and murder of Sarah Everard by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens calls for radical overhaul of police vetting nationwide.
Health screening is among the issues preventing the Army's recruitment partner from hitting its hiring targets, MPs have been told.Â
CVs that had been enhanced using ChatGPT performed better than those that had not, a recruitment company has found.
The amount of time after which a conviction is spent for the purposes of a job application has been significantly reduced.
Survey finds nine out of 10 senior HR professionals say they do not use AI in their recruitment and very few are planning to in future.
Questions last month focused on dismissing an employee on grounds of ill health and queries around disciplinary procedures.
