EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECK

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:

• Access to proprietary information

• Management of all or part of their business

• Pay them a lot of money after little interaction with them.

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.

We:

• Review the interviewees curriculum vita for discrepancies or misrepresentations

• Confirm academic and professional qualifications

• Perform previous employment checks

• Conduct searches via public information databases to identify 'risk factors'

• Finally, conduct criminal history checks.

Employers must stop making decisions based on gut feelings. Even the most intuitive interviewer, more often than not, gets this wrong.

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.

We therefore recommend that pre-employment checks are conducted on all employees, no matter what the position they are employed to fill.