It is commonplace for employers to conduct pre-employment screening or background checks on potential candidates. However, besides pre-employment situations, background checks may be conducted on a current employee, business partner, supplier, vendor, domestic helper and even a student from an educational institution.
We mainly serve our clients locally when it comes to background check services.
We can conduct background checks in situations involving:
•Businesses and corporations
•Educational Institutions
•Insurance companies
•Suppliers and Vendors
•Individuals
How extensive the background check is depends on the requirements of each case. Our fees for such services varies on a case-to-case basis.
Common areas of screening include:
1. Identity Verification (Business/ Personal)
Confirmation of basic identity such as a person’s name, date of birth and address, or a corporation’s name, date of registration/incorporation and company registration number and registered address.
2. Name/ Address History
Identification of past addresses used by the individual or corporation.
3. Criminal Records Background Check
Some organizations require a thorough criminal background check on their employees as an additional security measure, even if the employee has already made a self-declaration.
4. Surveillance
Where an employer suspects that an employee is moonlighting or performing illegal activities, it may be necessary to place the particular employee under surveillance to confirm their suspicions.
NOTE: Even the most rigorous methods of background checks and surveillance may not be able to produce the required evidence. The accuracy and reliability of the data collected depends on the time frame of the investigation and the availability of information sources. However, it is one of the methods that you may wish to employ as an initial protection against suspicious circumstances.
In the recent news published on Oct 2014 in Asia One, the background check carry out by companies are commonly on salary that stated, education qualification and reasons for resignations. For high profile cases of cheating has getting more attention by many companies both local and overseas.
The specialist firms are mainly engaged by the client to do checking as follows:
•by contacting the previous employer of the job seekers and human resources, verifying the period of employment in the previous firms and confirming the last drawn salary.
•As for qualification, the educational institutions will also to checked the validation of the study.
•Checking on possible criminal records
•Screening through the Internet for any negative references and comment
In the pass practices, the employers are always depend on the referees indicated by the candidates. With the tight labours market in recent years, the screening of referees has been always take it likely by the firm until things when wrong to get the new replacement. The cost of screening and back ground check may increase the operating cost of the companies, however, it can also reduce for the fraud cases and staff turn over which has indirect cost saving in the long run for the businesses.
Private Investigator on background checks
The private investigation like us also carry out background check for our clients. especially the high profile employee or business partner when they is suspect cases of carry out kickbacks and involved conflict of interest with their current business activities. The more in-depth back ground check and trailing activities may required to surface out the evidence, in some cases, we do provide under cover assignment to gather the information and ascertain the facts.
The initial screening for the job seekers and in-depth back ground check are equally important for businesses to keep the right staff and genuine employee to keep business growing.