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Employee screening

Employment Screening Excellence for clients and candidates alike

Helping clients develop, implement and manage effective and efficient global employment screening programmes.

Employers need to recruit with confidence, as well as meet any applicable regulatory requirements or conditions imposed on them.

We help clients develop and manage regional and global employment screening solutions. Our screening services can be tailored to meet individual regulatory and sector requirements, as well as best practices. In addition, they’re designed with a positive onboarding experience for candidates in mind.

Our internationally experienced, multilingual team is extensively trained to ensure that every screen produces accurate results, supporting our clients’ recruitment processes by reducing the risk of unsuitable hires.

BENEFITS

Clients who partner with us benefit from our:

Dedicated support – We manage all global assignments in-house and do not outsource to third-party providers, maintaining regular client contact and delivering evidence quickly.
Client control – Our clients control the process through an easy-to-use and secure online portal, Intrinsic.
Professional credentials – We hold several industry-relevant memberships and credentials, such as National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) and ISO 27001 Information Security Management.

I am very happy with Risk Advisory's screening service and my account manager who in particular, does a fantastic job.

- Screening coordinator with an investment bank

An excellent service and always on hand to answer any queries.

- Talent coordinator at FTSE 100 firm

I have and will continue to recommend Risk Advisory's Employee Screening to fellow risk professionals

- Global security manager at an international company

Risk Advisory's service has always been very professional, reliable and trustworthy. Their online system makes monitoring progress very easy.

- HR manager at a global bank

Key features of our employment screening service include:

Employment history references
Verification of professional qualifications
Criminal records checks
Identity and address verification
Regulatory investigations and checks
Screening of FCA/PRA hires
Ongoing monitoring
Financial probity
Media, sanctions and politically exposed person (PEP) checks
Business interest searches

Mitigating a bank’s people risk

For almost a decade, we’ve worked with a leading investment bank to develop and evolve its employee screening programme, as part of its approach to mitigating its people risk. We support them at several screening levels, from interns through to FCA senior manager functions.

Screening components range from database checks, such as identity documents, financial probity, business interests and negative media, to mainstream referencing to confirm previous employment history and verify educational qualifications. Our team of multi-lingual researchers readily sources references from countries where English is not the first language, supporting a client that hires from all over the world.

Harnessing online screening

A Risk Advisory client wanted to ensure that its employee screening programme was fully managed online, for both candidates and their HR team. Using our Intrinsic screening application, we built an online candidate questionnaire and agreed a ‘rules-based’ workflow process that exactly matched the client’s existing HR recruitment and on-boarding procedures.

The firm has a high employee attrition rate and the population being screened has proved to have an above average level of material discrepancies. We’ve also worked directly with a number of their contractors to ensure a consistent level of screening is conducted for all on-site staff.

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