Everything about employment screening

What is employment screening?

Employment screening involves the verification of relevant candidate or employee data that relates to the job performance. In doing so, you know who you are recruiting and retaining in your organisation!

Here you can read everything you need to know about employment screening:

• Why conduct employment screening?
• Types of employment screening
  1. Pre-employment screening
  2. In-employment screening
• Example of the employment screening procedure
• Employment screening services of Validata
• Employment screening software of Validata
• Employment background checks
• Employment screening and the GDPR
• Frequently Asked Questions about employment screening

Why conduct employment screening?

• Risk management: When you enter into a business relationship with someone, you want to be sure that you can rely on them. After all, you don’t want to be faced with any surprises right? Employment screening helps to better understand and reduce potential risks for your organisation.
• Quality management: There are certain quality requirements in some sectors but an organisation can also voluntarily choose to set up a quality assurance policy. This can apply to the quality of your products, services, and processes, but also to your staff. In this case, employment screening is a suitable tool that an organisation can use.
• Mis-hire, or bad hire: In the worst-case scenario, an organisation has already had to deal with the consequences of employee fraud in the past. Think about the financial and reputational damage, as a result of an unqualified employee who started work with a forged diploma. Prevention is always better than cure.
• (Increasing) Laws and regulations: Laws and regulations regarding (hiring) personnel are increasing rapidly. It can be a complex process to comply with these regulations, especially because you do not want to lose focus on your core business. Outsourcing to a professional screening party ensures that you always comply with relevant laws and regulations and that you use an experienced party in this field.

Types of employment screening

1. Pre-employment screening, het screenen van sollicitanten

Pre-employment screening, or the screening of job applicants, is applicable when a new employee joins the organisation. Job interviews give a good first impression of an applicant. Yet, in addition to an introductory interview, it is good to check the facts before definitively hiring an applicant.

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2. In-employment screening, het screenen van personeel

On the other hand, in-employment screening entails the screening of current personnel. A lot can change in someone’s living and working environment over several years. It is therefore interesting to perform certain checks again. In-employment screening is a means of strengthening mutual trust. The stronger this trust is, the lower the risk of unnecessary risks.

Everything about in-employment screening

Employment screening services of Validata

Validata is market leader in employment screening and supports organisations with both pre- and in-employment screening. Through our years of experience, we are well aware of the needs in different sectors. We work together with various partners to verify the correct data. Outsourcing the screening process means that a company does not have to enter into these partnerships itself and that the data is stored centrally.

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Employment background checks

The background checks in an employment screening depend on who you want to screen and for which position. Are they job applicants or current employees? In 2021, the following five background checks were most conducted among our clients:

1. Identity check
2. VOG check
3. Education check
4. Work experience check
5. Statement of integrity