Understanding the different types of background check
In today's fast-paced hiring environment, background checks have become a critical part of the recruitment process in helping to ensure that you are hiring the right candidate for your organisation.
However, background checks are often responsible for causing lengthened recruitment and onboarding processes that could ultimately lead to losing out on top talent.
Throughout this article, we’ll help you to understand some of the different types of background checks, to support you in navigating the complexities of pre-employment screening with more clarity and confidence.
Why do we need background checks?
Regulatory compliance:
There are certain background checks that are essential to ensuring your company remains compliant with legal or industry-specific requirements. Failure to comply can result in a hefty fine or in some cases, imprisonment.
Improve your quality of hire:
Conducting a variety of checks on a new hire will support hugely in ensuring you are making a safer hiring decision for your organisation. Without doing your due diligence on a new hire, you could find yourself bringing the wrong person into your business.
Safeguard your company's reputation:
The risk of a bad hire can do more than cause internal issues within your organisation, it can also cause reputational damage that may be difficult to recover from.
Below, we have outlined some of VettingGateway’s most frequently used checks, and the benefits of conducting these on a new hire.
Employer references:
These are a crucial background check, as they allow you to reduce your hiring risk by quickly and easily verifying your candidate’s employer history, allowing you to be confident that you are hiring somebody with the workplace history they say they have.
Criminal record:
A criminal record check allows you to make safer hiring decisions that will help protect your organisation and its people, preventing potential damage to both the business’s brand and reputation.
Adverse financial:
You can gain peace of mind when hiring in to finance-related roles by assessing your candidate’s financial background. With VettingGateway, you can receive results within minutes to determine if your candidate is economically vulnerable.
Sanctions:
Discovering whether your candidate appears on the UK government sanctions list is an important check to complete as ultimately this will protect your organisation from potential reputational or financial risks.
Digital Right to Work:
With a digital Right to Work check, you can easily confirm whether your candidates can work in the UK. With a reputable background checking platform, you can instantly assess legitimate documents from candidates and receive the results in minutes, allowing you to hire quickly and compliantly.
Social Media:
By conducting a social media check, you can reduce hiring risk and protect your companies organisation. Recruiting good fit candidates who align with your organisations value is an important part of the hiring process, and with a social media check, you can gain peace of mind that this is the case.
The background checks listed above represent just a small selection of our most frequently requested background checks. If you would like to find out about the background checks we offer in more depth, you can download our Ultimate Guide to UK Background checks here, where the experts at VettingGateway will take you through all the must-knows around background checking.
If you’re interested in exploring additional background check options or want to learn how VettingGateway can streamline your pre-employment screening process, we’d love to help! Schedule a meeting with one of our vetting experts using the link below and we can talk you through our solutions.
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