HireRight, a leading provider of global employment screening has appointed Ed Hickey as managing director of APAC. In his new role, Hickey will manage and support HireRight’s business with a strong and growing client base throughout the region and employees in India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the Philippines. HireRight background screening services help organizations around […]
The CIPD recently reported that Graduate recruitment is expected to rise substantially this year as vacancies return to pre-recession levels, according to a survey by High Flyers Research. Read the full article in People Management HireRightHireRight is here to help guide you through the biggest screening challenges so you can focus on what’s important to […]
Written by Richard Hurley, Communications Manager, CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service The frauds recorded to the CIFAS Staff/Internal Fraud Database in 2013 help to underline not only what insider threats have occurred, but where the real vulnerabilities lie. Fundamentally, of course, vulnerability is something that will always be tied up with risk: and […]
80% of recruiters consider criminal record checks to be critical or very important to their recruitment process and there has been remarkable growth in the number of criminal record checks being conducted in the UK, and indeed around the world. When the routine checks were first introduced in Britain in 1986, the Home Office anticipated […]
As 2013 draws to a close, employers have reasons to be positive. The Reed Job Index for November reported job opportunities to be at a five-year high with more vacancies on the Reed site than at any time since September 2008. Growth is being seen across all industry sectors and all regions in the UK. […]
Written by Sophie Keen, Staff Fraud Recruitment Manager – CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service Since the last HireRight blog post written by Arjun Medhi, employment application frauds reported to the CIFAS Staff Fraud Database have continued to rise. An employment application fraud is categorised by CIFAS as when a job applicant has knowingly […]
