It is essential to the success of all organisations to ensure that they employ qualified, trustworthy and ultimately, dependable employees. Research shows that up to one third of all applicants misrepresent their career history, previous salary, qualifications, or criminal records, when pursuing employment opportunities.

In order to reduce the risk of poor performance or worse, Eos Risk Management provides a comprehensive background checking service, on a global basis.

Eos currently provides its services to a large number of corporations, who have been impacted by legal actions against employees who have used bogus information during the employment application stage. The results of the actions of the employees who misrepresented on their documentation may be far reaching with potentially devastating and embarrassing consequences.

Our global background check service, whilst not eradicating the risk of such occurrences, will however minimise the chance of a bogus employee entering the system, thus ensuring that the Company is seen to be doing everything possible in order to ensure the quality of their employees and thus their service.

Eos offers 3 levels of checking, which we call our Bronze, Silver and Gold packages, with basic background checks and verifications at Bronze level, building up to full executive checks at Gold.

Bronze background checks usually include:-

• Verification of educational qualifications.
• Verification of membership of professional bodies.
• Training achievements.
• Authentication of past employment record.
• Checking current and previous addresses.
• Enquiries in respect of referees.
• County Court, civil actions, bankruptcies etc.
• Credit status reports.

We are able to conduct these enquiries on worldwide basis, covering periods of 5, 10 or 20 years, depending upon the requirements of the client.

With the advent of the new Data Protection Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 1998 (in the UK and European Union), employers should clearly state in the employment application form that pre-employment enquiries will take place to verify qualifications and previous employment records. The subject's consent must be obtained via a 'Data Information Release Form', appropriately signed.

Consideration should also be given to including post-employment screening of existing employees. This will cover promotion to sensitive positions where it might be prudent to conduct further enquiries, prior to confirming appointments.

All enquiries are conducted according to a client's instructions and are strictly confidential to the client.