Identity checks for Employers
Once you’ve registered your organizations, you will be charged for individual identity checks and when you request them – there are no upfront minimums or contractual tie-ins.
Feel confident in your employees identities
Protect Your business against fraud
Pass or fail results in as little as five minutes
Information held by credit referencing agencies
Telephone databases
Electoral roll
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What are Identity Checks?
Identity Checks are a kind of electric identification checks made to verify a potential employee’s identity. They do this by cross-referencing the applicant’s private information against data held on secure databases, including:
- Information held by credit referencing agencies
- Electoral roll
- Telephone databases
What are Identity Checks?
Identity checking is extremely important in the recruitment process. An identity background check can help protect your business from fraud and give you an extra level of confidence in the people who have access to sensitive information.
The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) has outlined the four main reasons why prospective employees may lie about their identity:
- To avoid detection
- For dishonest financial gain
- To avoid financial liabilities
- To legally obtain genuine documents
Identity Checks are important for all employers, but are particularly suited to those who carry out a number of pre-employment checks (like DBS Checks) on their employees. With an Identity Check, you can verify the identity information your employees provide for the other checks be certain that you get the correct results.
An Identity Check is a comprehensive check that confirms attributed identity information as well as biographical identity information – but what do these terms mean?
- Attributed identity – this refers to a person’s identity details as established at birth, including their date of birth and full name.
- Biographical identity – this refers to the aspects of a person’s identity that have changed over time, including entries on the electoral roll and credit history data.
Biographical identity information is difficult to falsify, so carrying out Identity Checks is a great way for employers to gain an added layer of assurance about an employee.
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