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.
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Painting an accurate picture of prospective employees is becoming increasingly critical for organisations, but how does HR go about doing it? Kath Burke looks at the techniques of pre-employment screening
