Why Background Screen

Employees are both an organisation’s greatest asset – and greatest cost. Hiring dishonest, unqualified or inexperienced employees can have disastrous consequences for an organisation. In addition to the cost and inconvenience of dealing with an incompetent employee and the loss of investment in the hiring process, the business, its assets and its reputation – as well as its other employees – could be placed at serious risk.

An organisation could be exposed to:

• Fraud and embezzlement of company/client funds
• Mis-use of confidential information
• Negligent hiring litigation
• Theft of goods and equipment
• Damage to the organisation’s integrity and industry/community reputation
• Decreasing share price
• Loss of credibility and ultimately profitability
• Disruptive, incompetent and dangerous behaviour
• Low employee morale/productivity/workplace culture

International research shows that nearly 50% of resumés contain false information about academic qualifications and previous work history. 

Benefits of outsourcing your pre-employment screening to Resumé Check:

• We deliver fast, comprehensive, accurate results through our experience, expertise, organisational knowledge and relationships with data source providers to access information.

• We handle the administrative burden of background screening so that your HR staff can free up their time and direct their skills towards strategic functions that benefit your organisation.

• We save you time and money by replacing your fixed HR cost with a variable cost and reducing the instance of inappropriate hires, reducing staff turnover and reducing the cost of re-hiring, induction and training.

• We enable you to practice due diligence in the hiring process and thus enhance your business integrity.

• We help improve your risk management profile.

• We help protect your business by reducing the risk of fraud, theft and legal exposure.

• We are completely independent and unbiased, providing objective, impartial information. We make no recruitment recommendations.

• We are conversant with all New Zealand legislative and privacy requirements associated with undertaking employment screening.

• We can ask the right questions with complete confidentiality and verify your candidate’s background without giving offence to them or their referees.

• We are New Zealand-owned and operated, with a thorough understanding of New Zealand employment laws and privacy obligations.

• We provide you with international expertise and, as the New Zealand representative on the Asia Pacific Committee for the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), we stay at the leading edge of our professional practice.

Making a hiring decision before verifying the accuracy of your candidates’ claims on their CV’s can place your business at serious risk. Pre-employment background screening should be a vital part of your recruitment process if you are serious about reducing your financial and legal exposure and maintaining the integrity of your business.

Find out more about Resumé Check’s tailor-made screening packages

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USA Statistics report that:

-  71% misrepresent their experience.
-  64% exaggerate their achievements.
-  52% misrepresent their qualifications.
-  41% omit prior jobs.

New Zealand employers are not immune from risk, as local research conducted by Resumé Check shows – 39% to 42% of all screening assessments for clients producing an inconsistency or red flag reported, and on average, 25% of all qualifications listed by candidates show some inconsistency.

Many certificates are not worth the paper they are printed on – verification requires more than simply sighting a document. And unless they are thoroughly checked, references often provide little useful information about a person’s work performance.

Media reports have highlighted numerous examples of appointments based on falsified CV’s, where the candidates later abused their high-profile positions or defrauded their employer. A number of these appointments were even facilitated by recruitment agencies, which highlights the weaknesses in their verification procedures.

Increasingly, employers and employment agencies see the benefits of outsourcing their pre-employment screening to a specialist verification company, such as ourselves.

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