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Our Solutions
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.
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Did you Know?
According to IPSA 80% of all theft in retail is carried
out by members of staff
More than 7 million of the UK's working population admit to having misled a
potential employer while applying for a job
Employee theft exceeds £320 per capita
The CBI claim that 49% of all employers say CV lies are
a 'serious problem' when recruiting
According to MORI 7.5 million people in the
UK
lied on their CV
Following the launch of the Security Industry
Authorities licensing scheme more than 20,000 job offers
were withdrawn following CRB checks
One-quarter of
UK
employers withdrew at least one job offer in the past year
after discovering that candidates had either lied or
misrepresented something in their applications
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