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Director check: what is it and how can it benefit you?
The director check helps minimise risk to your organisation by giving an insight into any potential high-level hire. Here are the essentials. No matter your company’s size, when hiring for senior management, you want to minimize the risk of your…
PBSA Webinar: Updates in the CRC Industry and the DBS
Our Managing Director, Hedley Clark, will be speaking alongside Ian Johnston, Executive Director for The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) in a free webinar hosted by our industry body, the PBSA. The webinar is aiming to illuminate progress in the…
Discrimination and the Background Screening Industry
A couple of months ago Barry Nixon, an eminent figure in the background screening world, posted a fascinating article about discrimination and the difficult questions the background screening industry faces regarding its role in propagating it. It’s an excellent read…
Reference Checks and Automation: Proper usage
Referencing checking – one of the most critical parts of the hiring process. A key way for an employer to make sure they aren’t making a mistake in their hiring decision. SkillSurvey released a study showing 86% of reference checks…
Digital Fraud Protection and Consumer Trust: The Future
TransUnion has recently sponsored a report by The Economist Intelligence Unit. This is a global survey of over 1,600 executives. The report hopes to gain an insight into their perspective of the rapid adoption of digitalisation by consumers as a…
COVID-19 Safety: Communication, Collaboration and Trust
As economies reopen, North America, Europe and Asia are seeing their COVID-19 infection rates rise again, despite businesses thinking they had the virus under control, reports The HR Director. Concurrently, in the US alone, people are filing hundreds of employee…
Recruitment Fraud: Police warn about “Mystery Shopper” scam
Times are hard, and fraudsters are targeting desperate job-seekers with recruitment scams. In London, the “Mystery Shopper” recruitment scam has already claimed 35 victims, who have lost over £51,000. The police have issued an alert here. Fraudsters are using recruitment sites…
FCA Checks: The essentials you need to know
Last week we explained the BPSS check. This week we’ll be taking a look at the checks for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). In order to ensure that the financial markets run fairly, honestly and efficiently, the FCA regulates over…
Blockchain and Background Screening: The Implications
If you’re a believer, blockchain technology will revolutionize the banking process and the way we use currency. It may even revolutionize the essence of the commercial contract itself. Oh, and perhaps the background screening industry too, The blockchain essentially acts…
BPSS checks: The essentials you need to know
The Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) is a set of government checks mostly for members of the civil service. It’s also for the military, government contractors, and everyone who will have access to government material. This post aims to give…
COVID-19 crisis: A step towards new saving trends?
COVID-19 crisis: A step towards new saving trends? People of every kind have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Jobs have been lost, salaries have lowered and many of us have had our personal savings severely damaged. As lockdown continues…
THE CLASS OF ‘2020’ – Flawed grading and your career
In August 2020, the UK academic exam results grading system for A-Levels, GCSEs and other work-related qualifications (e.g. BTEC) was in complete turmoil. It started with A-Level students’ grades being determined by a questionable algorithm, which led to 40% of…