A fraudster who stole £2.9m from creative, digital and media recruitment firm Devonshire Appointments, has been jailed for four years after a hearing in the Old Bailey on Friday [29 August]. Payroll administrator Dennis Harold swindled Devonshire Appointments out of £2.9m between 2007 and 2013 by inventing temporary staff and paying wages into more than […]
Recent figures from HireRight showed more than half (52%) of successful job applications contained some form of error or discrepancy, most frequently relating to education or employment history. However almost a third (32%) were found in professional qualifications and memberships, proving this area to be particularly vulnerable to lies and embellishments. HireRightHireRight is here to […]
Who are you hiring and for what security and risk-specific roles? Most organisations need to check their workforce from top to bottom, so perhaps it’s time to review your background screening procedures for employees. Steve Girdler outlines how that process should be conducted. Read the full article in this month’s Risk UK magazine HireRightHireRight is […]
In the first half of 2014, over half of all the confirmed frauds (63%) recorded to the CIFAS Internal Fraud Database were Employment Application Frauds: frauds where job applicants have made serious fraudulent declarations about employment history, qualifications, criminal records and so on. This is in keeping with the trends recorded during the previous year […]
How should you handle a pay rise request? Becky Mossman, HireRight’s HR Director – EMEA and APAC, gives her views in the Telegraph HireRightHireRight is here to help guide you through the biggest screening challenges so you can focus on what’s important to you; attracting top talent. HireRight provides employment background screening services to organisations of […]
According to “The future of work, a journey to 2022” from PwC the trend for recruitment growth fuelled by temporary workers looks set to continue with 46% of HR professionals expecting at least 20% of their workforce to be made up of contractors or temporary workers by 2022. This suits employee demands as the report […]
