PRE - EMPLOYMENT SCREENING
Regardless of the size of your business and due to today’s competitive economic environment, all businesses are vulnerable to fraud, theft, violence and industrial espionage etc. of which 80% of these incidences are perpetrated by employees and have potential to cause great financial cost to businesses. Considering this high percentage, there is a definite need for businesses to conduct pre-employment checks on applicants.
A number of surveys have concluded that many job applicants are not truthful on application and inflate their qualifications, level of experience and expertise.
South African statistics show that 25% of South African job applicants have fraudulently lied about their qualifications, 16% of them had criminal records and 17% had bad credit records.
Pre-employment screening is a means of identifying a prospective job applicant’s criminal activity or unethical behaviour.
Pre-employment and continuous in-job screening should be conducted to help employers to identify employee’s changes in lifestyle or the verifying of criminal records obtained during employment.
BDI Investigations can assist businesses through various electronic databases and other sources to minimize the risks from personnel and provide inter alia:
Regardless of the size of your business and due to today’s competitive economic environment, all businesses are vulnerable to fraud, theft, violence and industrial espionage etc. of which 80% of these incidences are perpetrated by employees and have potential to cause great financial cost to businesses. Considering this high percentage, there is a definite need for businesses to conduct pre-employment checks on applicants.
A number of surveys have concluded that many job applicants are not truthful on application and inflate their qualifications, level of experience and expertise.
South African statistics show that 25% of South African job applicants have fraudulently lied about their qualifications, 16% of them had criminal records and 17% had bad credit records.
Pre-employment screening is a means of identifying a prospective job applicant’s criminal activity or unethical behaviour.
Pre-employment and continuous in-job screening should be conducted to help employers to identify employee’s changes in lifestyle or the verifying of criminal records obtained during employment.
BDI Investigations can assist businesses through various electronic databases and other sources to minimize the risks from personnel and provide inter alia:
- Credit checks
- Employment history verifications
- Criminal record checks
- Verification of Identity numbers
- Qualification verifications
- Drivers licence verifications
- Company registration checks which could assist in verifying whether an applicant or employee has any interests in other Companies.
Pre-employment screening is a means of identifying a prospective job applicant’s criminal activity or unethical behaviour.
Pre-employment and continuous in-job screening should be conducted to help employers to identify employee’s changes in lifestyle or the verifying of criminal records obtained during employment.
BDI Investigations can assist businesses through various electronic databases and other sources to minimize the risks from personnel and provide inter alia:
- Employment history verifications
- Credit checks
- Criminal record checks
- Verification of identity numbers
- Qualification verifications
- Drivers licence verifications
- Company registration checks which
could assist in verifying whether an applicant or employee have any interests
in other companies
Polygraph examinations can also be conducted on an applicant or employee to verify specific issues.