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 […]
CIFAS – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service today releases The True Cost of Insider Fraud, A report based on research conducted by the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies. The findings give organisations much food for thought: Losses from internal frauds do not just include the sum lost to a fraudster, but encompass a […]
Steve Girdler, Managing Director EMEA, HireRight comments: “There is a feeling of cautious optimism in the business press regarding the global economic outlook but improvement is still patchy. In the UK, output grew by 0.8% between July and September, the best quarterly performance since 2010 and following a 0.7% growth between April and June. However, […]
