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What Are Pre-Employment Checks and Why They Matter for Your Business Success

posted Monday, October 28, 2024, 9:00:00 AM GMT

Pre-employment checks can help ensure your business hires the best candidates. By checking a candidate’s background, credentials and history, your business can confirm they’re suitable for the role. 
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How Do Employers Check Employment History? UK Guide to Verifiable Talent Recruitment

posted Monday, August 5, 2024, 9:00:00 AM BST

Checking a candidate's employment history is vital for hiring managers. Employers can verify candidates by performing checks to confirm employment details such as job title, dates of employment and reasons for leaving. This process helps in ensuring that applicants have been truthful about their work experience.
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Employment Screening for Remote Workers

posted Monday, December 23, 2019, 4:35:00 PM GMT

On the CV-Library website, there is an excellent article entitled - "Why you should consider remote working as your next career move"
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Recruitment Best Practice - Employment screening

posted Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 4:26:00 PM GMT

Recruiting the right candidate for any role in an organisation is critically important for every business. Finding a candidate that is a good fit and matches the requirements of the role can be challenging. Further, reducing staff turnover and improving retention should also be part of a well thought out recruitment process. Carrying out thorough employment record checks and effectively screening candidates should be a key part of any recruitment process. At the end of the day for many businesses, your employees are your biggest asset.
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Effective Pre-Employment Screening

posted Thursday, October 10, 2019, 2:44:00 PM BST

Pre-employment screening gives businesses and organisations the opportunity to check the suitability of candidates before recruitment. Employment verification is a comprehensive and robust way of confirming credentials and safeguarding against potentially costly future HR problems. However, it can sometimes feel like a minefield when hiring new candidates as the screening process can be a headache in its own right. There can also be uncertainty as to what checks can legitimately be carried out. This is not a reason to be put off however and finding the right advice and screening partner to check employment records is key.
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Does GDPR affect your employment referencing process?

posted Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 10:45:00 AM BST

Anyone in business will have heard about the GDPR. When it was introduced on 25 May 2018, it caused quite a stir and a not-insignificant amount of misunderstanding. Employment Referencing and Employment Screening was already a sensitive area for employers and perhaps even employees. But how has this changed with the introduction of GDPR?
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