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Energy and Utilities pre-employment checks matter now more than ever.

Energy and Utilities background checks
A professional pre-employment screening program streamlines your recruitment processes, decreases the danger of company reputation damage, supports your duty of care to employees, and allows you to comply with rules.

With staff in the energy and utilities sectors having access to a variety of sensitive data and visiting consumers in their homes, the risk of hiring a bad employee is high.

Hiring the wrong person can lead to difficulties like fraud, theft (at work or at your customer's house), data security breaches, damage to expensive equipment, and other safety concerns.

In the worst-case situation, hiring the incorrect person could put other employees or members of the public in danger.

You can safeguard your organization from difficulties like these by outsourcing your pre-employment screening to a company with experience in the Energy & Utility sector.

Whether you want to protect your business, apply best practices, or comply with industry requirements, our background checks cover the complete range of screening choices.
 

These are some of the Pre-employment or due diligence checks that organisations may want to consider running in Energy and Utilities sector

  • Declaration
    The declaration enables the candidate to specify whether they can complete certain background checks. For instance, we may inquire if they possess a professional qualification. If the response is "No," the professional qualification section will be disabled. Additionally, the system will ask for the reason why this information is unavailable, and this explanation will be forwarded to the end client or employer.
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  • Personal Information
  • Educational Check
    Our educational background check service confirms qualifications or educational certificates earned directly with educational institutions including dates of attendance, major, degrees earned and graduation.
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  • Personal Contact Details
  • Employment History : 5 years
    A five-year employment history check involves verifying the details of a candidate’s previous employment over the past five years. This includes confirming job titles, dates of employment, responsibilities, and reasons for leaving. By reviewing this period, employers can gain a comprehensive understanding of the candidate's professional background and stability.
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  • Address Verification Check

    The current address is checked against the available records held by the UK’s credit reference agencies and government bodies. The check includes data sources like the electoral register, company house, county courts and other government-approved data sources.

    The address check allows us to verify that a candidate is who they say they are and resides at the address they declared through data held against their personal details like name, age etc.

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  • Name Verification
    Name verification is the process of confirming an individual's identity through their name. Given that names can change due to various reasons such as marriage, divorce, or personal choice, it is essential to verify the current and previous names of a candidate accurately
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  • Financial Integrity (Credit) Check
    We perform a detailed credit search on each candidate to make sure nothing is left to chance. Our credit reports search nationwide through the major credit reference agencies to disclose any discrepancies or areas that deserve closer inspection.
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  • DBS Basic Criminality Check
    We connect to the Police National Database via DBS in England/Wales, Access NI, Disclosure Scotland and other global partners to request an individual’s criminal record activities if it exists. RiskReduct provides details of an individual’s unspent convictions. The criminal record check (basic) can be requested for any individual regardless of the job applied. 
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  • Identity Check

    Identify Check is the process in which we check if the candidate has provided accurate and authentic information about their true identity. Using data from the UK credit reference agencies, we verify and validate the full name, age, current address, and other personal submitted by the applicant against the records held by the CRA and other authentic third-party organisations. 

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