Employee Background Checks

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Regular surveys have shown that most employee frauds are carried out by individuals whom, if they had gone through an effective screening process at the time of their original application, would not have been employed because of the discrepancies uncovered.  By conducting even basic employee screening or pre-employment vetting of applicants organisations greatly reduce the risk of financial loss, fraudulent use of material or information, the misuse of staff time and harm to their reputation.  Employers need to ensure that the people they employ are really who they say they are and have the experience and qualifications that made them want to employ them in the first place. The need for efficient employee screening does not end with protection from dishonesty or harm to reputation. It also affords company directors a higher degree of protection from the likelihood of corporate liability claims.

The ideal way to ensure that representations are real facts is to validate them utilising an objective third party who has not been involved in the recruitment and interview process. The types of information that should be checked during an employee screening include:

• Personal Data: to confirm that the applicant is who he/she says they are
• Judicial/Legal Data: civil litigation, credit history, bankruptcy and the like
• Employment History: this is particularly important as previous employers are usually only willing to supply the barest of references
• Credentials: educational achievements, professional qualifications, professional or occupational licensing.

We have seen instances where:

• An applicant who used a fraudulently altered copy of his son's birth certificate
• An applicant who had severe current financial problems including numerous County Court judgments
• An applicant who had omitted his time in prison from his application for a senior management role
• An applicant who had various well publicised convictions and lengthy jail sentences for financial fraud

But possibly more importantly, our parent company, Carratu International Plc, has investigated thousands of cases where there was no employee screening or pre-employment vetting system present and staff have gone on to steal large amounts of cash, commit fraud or steal proprietary information. If you think you may be a victim why not contact them on 020 8643 8000. Their web site can be found at www.carratu.com.