EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECKS
The question ILR Services asks is… Why do businesses invite total strangers into their workplace?
Often in a position of trust, businesses allow them the following:
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Access to proprietary information
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Management of all or part of their business
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Pay them a lot of money after little interaction with them.
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The answer is usually trust. People trust the candidate, that they are interviewing for the job, is telling them the whole truth.
We can provide comprehensive Pre-Employment Checking service. This minimises the risk of our client hiring an underqualified or misrepresentative candidate.
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We:
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Review the interviewees curriculum vita for discrepancies or misrepresentations
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Confirm academic and professional qualifications
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Perform previous employment checks
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Conduct searches via public information databases to identify 'risk factors'
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Finally, conduct criminal history checks.
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Employers must stop making decisions based on gut feelings. Even the most intuitive interviewer, more often than not, gets this wrong.
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The sensitive positions are not always the most senior positions. Often secretarial, financial, or computer systems personnel have greater level of undetected access to sensitive information.
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We therefore recommend that pre-employment checks are conducted on all employees, no matter what the position they are employed to fill.
