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.
The number of companies using video interviews to hire staff spiked by 67% in the past four weeks due to...
When it comes to the upcoming changes to IR35 legislation, worker status should not be the only thing on employers’ minds.
More UK aid agencies are being encouraged to join a data-sharing scheme which helps stop perpetrators of sexual abuse from...
With research suggesting skills shortages in some sectors are at their highest level since 2008, an increasing number of employers...
TMP Worldwide took the coveted Work of the Year for its campaign for The AA.
A senior NHS boss who gained his job by falsely stating he had a degree has received a suspended prison...
The use of algorithms in “life-changing” decisions, such as recruitment, should be stopped immediately.
Thousands of police officers and staff in England and Wales have not been properly vetted, a police watchdog has warned....
Despite many employers making efforts to improve their candidate experience, some still fall short on the simplest aspects. Lee Biggins,...
Half of UK organisations rely on instinct and gut feel when it comes to assessing skills despite need to analyse data.
A police officer in Wiltshire Constabulary suffered from a degree of hearing loss but this did not affect her ability to do her job, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Introducing chatbots for recruitment has helped slash candidate drop-out rates and average time to hire at delivery firm Yodel. How has this been achieved?
Ahead of World Autism Awareness Week, employers should be thinking about creating an inclusive and supportive working environment for neurodiverse...
Research from pre-hire assessment start-up ThriveMap has shown that 48% of employees have left a role because it wasn’t what...
More and more employers are turning towards blind recruitment methods such as removing names from CVs to reduce bias. But...
