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Follow on Google News | Online Pay-As-You-Go Employment Screening Brings Big Organisation Background Checking To SMEsSmall companies can now make their employment screening as robust as that of larger organisations. Know Your Candidate enables SMEs to source background checks inexpensively on a pay-as-you-go basis.
The service eliminates the costs and complexities of traditional in-house or out-source alternatives. In-house options mean investing time and money in set-up procedures and relationships with data brokers e.g. Credit Reference Agencies for Credit Checks and Identity Checks, Criminal Records Bureau for CRB Checks and the DVLA for Driving Licence Checks. Fees can run into thousands making it uneconomical for organisations recruiting less than 50 staff a year. The outsourcing option also proves difficult and expensive if there are only a handful of employees to check at any given time and the employer does not know when they’re likely to require the services of the screening company again. This can lead to a second class service compared to large scale employers. Barry Hetherington, Director of Know Your Candidate, says that the status quo discriminates against SMEs commenting, “On investigating the market we found employment screening providers consciously and unconsciously placing significant hurdles and barriers in the way of SMEs. These include issues such as: inflated pricing, lengthy supplier paperwork and forcing customers to buy set combinations of background checks. In addition, screening providers are very reluctant to give SMEs access to their online systems meaning that the employees’ details required to conduct the checks must be submitted by fax, giving the customer no visibility of progress until a final report is produced. This is a wholly unsatisfactory state of affairs.” “We couldn’t see any reason why SMEs should pay more or receive a lower level of service than larger organisations. With the highest unemployment for a decade and their large corporate customers demanding ever increasing levels of security, the requirement for SMEs to conduct more robust background checks on their new employees has never been greater. Know Your Candidate delivers a high quality, cost effective employment screening service, on a pay-as-you-go basis.” Commenting on the new service, leading enterprise email-management company Communicator Corp (www.communicatorcorp.com) “Indeed it is now even more important as our customers and prospects are increasingly asking how we background check our staff, including Co-Op Financial Services who have been impressed with our proactive approach. Having the ability to source background checks quickly and inexpensively helps us to continue or policy of hiring only the best quality people and in turn this means that we can demonstrate our own stringent vetting requirements to our customers.” # # # Know Your Candidate's employment screening service enables UK employers to reduce the risks when hiring employees. We do this by providing a range of background checks via a simple yet secure Internet service on a cost effective pay-as-you-go basis. End
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