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.
BackCheck, the UK’s largest background-checking operations team, says that the recent reports of a black cab driver assaulting possibly hundreds...
Julie Baynes has been appointed to the newly created position of Service Director at Europe’s leading pre-employment screening company Verifile.Julie’s...
A quarter of employers worldwide are checking social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace for information about job candidates,...
Organised criminals are using cloned career histories to deceive recruiters into hiring them for positions that could enable them to...
BackCheck, the UK’s largest background checking operations team, warns all employers to learn a lesson from the conviction at Liverpool...
The Baby P case has sparked a recruitment crisis in the social care sector as local authorities struggle to deal...
BackCheck, the largest non-US owned background-checking company in the UK, has announced a new contract with Pimlico Plumbers.BackCheck will be...
Companies which rely on finding out just how good their new recruits are once they are in the job could...
BackCheck, the largest non-US owned background-checking company in the UK, has announced it will be providing increased background-checking services for...
Control Risks Screening, the global employee background screening provider, has announced the launch of a new employment screening service – EverScreen.Unlike...
Thousands of care workers could sue the government for compensation for being unfairly blacklisted following a House of Lords ruling.Law...
The damning independent report into the death of Baby P has highlighted a number of HR issues at Haringey Council.The...
Verifile, Europe’s leading background screening company today announced its acquisition of Tigerbrook’s employment screening division. Verifile’s acquisition comes on top...
The need to check the background of job applicants couldn’t be more evident, yet it is often neglected. It may...
Safety-Kleen Systems, directs job candidates to PeopleAnswers’ cutting-edge, pre- employment assessment to identify top prospects for the Safety-Kleen team of...
