• What are background checks?

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This article relates to https://candidateportal.verifile.co.uk/

When starting a position at a new company, many individuals are required to undergo background checks.

Background checks will, at a minimum, verify who you are and your personal information.

There are many types of background checks that are available, but they’ll most commonly include collecting references from your previous employers, verifying your qualifications with universities, colleges or schools and undertaking credit and criminal record checks.

If you've lived abroad, we may carry out the same checks internationally.

Verifile offers a wide range of check types, and your prospective employer (or the organisation that requested your background checks) will specifically choose the ones you will undergo.

The checks that they have chosen for you may apply to your department, role, project, or contract. 

If you have questions about a particular check selection, please ask your employer.

To provide the information that is required to carry out your checks, we will ask you to fill out an online screening form.

When your prospective employer places an order for a check, we'll send you a welcome email, which includes a link to the Verifile Candidate Portal, and your login details to access this online form.

Once logged in, you'll see the checks your employer has requested on the left-hand side of the webpage.

Once you provide your information to us by submitting the form, we'll verify the information you've provided.

Upon reviewing this information, your employer might wish to request some additional checks. If this is the case, our candidate team will be in touch to request further information we might need.

Once we've completed all the checks, we'll send a final report to your prospective employer. This will detail all the information that we discovered during the checks.

For a real world example of why Background Checks are important, and honesty paramount on your application, please read the following blog post concerning attempted deception to gain employment: The Verification Chronicles: The Ironic Interview.

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