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.
Disciple Adrian has been collating interesting claims that have been made on CVs that ended up on his desk during the course of 2005.
The chief constable of Avon and Somerset Police has admitted that his force used "inappropriate" recruitment techniques when excluding white applicants.
Depending how often the CRB checks are repeated, this must be a very good idea and will only minimise the risk to our children ('Union claims CRB checks on existing school staff are waste of money', PersonnelToday.com, 3 February)
Royal Mail's staff vetting procedures have been slammed as the service was handed a record £11.4m fine for failing to adequately prevent mail being lost, damaged or stolen
Retailer uses bespoke online questionnaire to vet management candidates.
Fewer serious accidents The rate of fatal and major injuries at work has fallen, with construction experiencing the biggest reduction...
Keeping potential recruits waiting is a high risk strategy where there is a skills drought.
The government has revealed that tens of thousands of businesses will be accredited to make identity checks on customers and employees, should ID cards be introduced as planned in 2007.
The Home Office is working with companies to encourage them to use ID cards for verifying the identities of their staff and customers.
Nick Leeson, who famously lost £830m in trading and was held responsible for the biggest financial scandal of the 20th...
Survey findings reveal that checking procedures are not being used to their full potential, despite a significant rise in the use of identity theft and employee fraud
A quarter of CVs submitted for financial sector jobs contained incorrect or false information, suggesting an intention to deceive
The European Personnel Selection Office (Epso), the body responsible for the recruitment of EU officials, is introducing computer-based testing to cope with the large number of candidates who want to join the organisation
There’s probably not an HR department in the land that doesn’t think one or more of their staff are robbing...
Last week I got the monthly bill from CV Checks R Us. It makes a Footballers’ Wives shopping bill look...
