VeriSure – Trusting Facts, Not Feelings

Meeting A Need

VeriSure provides an important and necessary pre-employment screening and other services service for companies in the Channel Islands.

A service that can protect your information, your property, your assets, your integrity and your reputation. It also helps you meet the, sometimes onerous, compliance requirements when hiring a candidate, it can protect against lawsuits for negligence, and it actually also acts as a benefit to all employees.

VeriSure is based on sound business practice and mitigates against the risks (and costs) associated with hiring personnel – and it does it in a highly efficient and cost-effective manner.

Now you, your clients and customers can have the confidence that your employees have the experience and skills they say they have, have done what they say they have and are who they say they are.

And you can now be certain that your personnel are trustworthy, not financially vulnerable, have the right academic or work experience, have not covered up gaps in employment history and have not provided misleading reasons for leaving previous employment.

The Facts Behind The Need

The costs of replacing an employee can be high. For middle management those costs can include severance pay, the hard and soft costs of searching for, and finding, a replacement (agency fees, interview and training time costs), the loss of production and decrease in efficiency, not to say the potential ill will with customers that can be caused by problem employees.

A company’s exposure to false information is born out by the following facts:

• Identity theft and ID cloning are on the increase within the UK.
• At least 1 in 10 companies has hired someone with false details.
• Up to 1 in 3 people either exaggerate or falsify their backgrounds in order to gain employment. 
• Over two thirds of HR managers, according to recent research by Experian, experience cases of misrepresentation on CVs from prospective job applicants.
• Over two thirds of candidates canvassed in a recent survey admitted to having lied on their CV, in particular about their qualifications, previous experience and salary.
• Over half of discrepancies on CVs relate to misrepresented work experience.
• 1 in 5 think that failing to mention jobs / roles that didn’t work out when applying for a job isn’t lying, it is just not drawing attention to them.

Outsourcing – The Better Option

pre-employment screening and other services is a specialist and time consuming discipline and requires particular access to data sources and specific knowledge of international legislation.

Because this is a specialist operation, many firms find it an inefficient use of their time and resources. Most HR departments find it significantly more cost effective to outsource this process so that less time spent on chasing references, with more time available to spend on core HR activities.

An independent resource carrying out pre-employment screening and other services can also be said to strengthen the integrity of the process and avoid the temptation to take shortcuts. It’s a fact, too, that the quality of references is actually increased as organisations are normally less guarded in giving information to an independent organisation than a competitor.

Lastly, many employers actually prefer that a new employee’s first contact with the company is not a pre-employment check.

VeriSure – The Better Solution

• Our mission is to empower organisations to make the most informed, profitable and rewarding long-term recruitment decisions.
• We’re a local business, complying with local law with some 30 years’ recruitment / HR experience.
• We have real knowledge and understanding of the employment market and trends.
• We spend the time to learn about our clients’ needs and tailor our screening for every level of employee – and in any number.
• Our prices compare favourably with competitor offers.
• You only have to complete one simple form and we take care of the rest.
• We'll provide a summary report with our findings: just look for the ticks to verify satisfactory checks.
• No lengthy paperwork for you to check – receive only the documents that you need to retain.
• Fast turnaround.
• Registered with the Data Protection Agency and operates under the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005

Services

VeriSure’s simple objective is to provide you with accurate and relevant information quickly and at a fixed cost. Our task is to ensure the information we supply can withstand any legal challenge and does not jeopardise a legitimate candidate’s career.

VeriSure will tailor the service to meet your exact requirements and the requirements of the post.

What’s certain is that whether you choose a fully comprehensive background check service, or a more limited package, VeriSure is committed to providing you with the best and most up-to-date information in as timely a manner as prudence dictates.

UK and international* services include:
*some local legislative limits apply

• Career gap identification and verification.
• Credit check (Jersey)
• Criminal records check.
• Documentation checking.
• Financial report (UK / Jersey / Guernsey).
• Education verification.
• Identity verification.
• Past employment verification.
• Professional membership and qualification verification.

We understand the need to work quickly and effectively so as not to hamper the recruitment process, but nevertheless to allow the requisite time for the information sources to deliver and the need, sometimes, for multiple attempts to gain that information and verify the facts.

Our easy to understand candidate application form helps speed the process and ensures consistency. Our open process ensures that each candidate is aware of the process, as well as the privacy and data protection issues.

Our industry knowledge, with the experience of who to contact and where, means our service turnaround is as fast as due diligence allows.

We build in 7 days for applicants to supply completed information, with pre-screening completed (complexity, location and source can affect the time required) within no more than 21 days thereafter.

We  can also bring any negative information or discrepancies to your attention immediately so it’s possible to make an informed initial decision while other candidates are still available.

Benefits

• VeriSure is designed to integrate seamlessly in your hiring process.
• VeriSure allows busy HR departments to focus on core strategic and business responsibilities.
• VeriSure gives you your own dedicated personal contact throughout the process.
• VeriSure can lead to a significant reduction in staff turnover costs.
• VeriSure offers significant savings on administration overheads.
• VeriSure offers a significant reduction in the serious risk of recruitment fraud: false identities, criminality and fraud (the use of the VeriSure logo alone in company literature and advertising helps deter fraudulent candidates or the use of fraudulent information).
• VeriSure maximises your corporate liability protection and protects company information and reputations.
• VeriSure can help raise the standard of the pool of candidates, ensuring skills and experience.
• VeriSure helps you ensure compliance with changing employment legislation.

Contact us

VeriSure Ltd, 5 New Street, St Helier, Jersey JE2 3RA