You can choose from a wide range of checks, to suit each particular candidate and vacancy.

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Preview

We'll verify an individual's employment, self-employment and educational activities within a specified activity timeframe of your choice.

5-15 working days

We'll obtain a character reference, providing a referee's opinion of the individual.

5-15 working days

This check is designed to spot any differences between an individual's CV and any information they provide during the screening process.

1-2 working days

We'll check the details of an individual's academic history, both in secondary and higher education.

5-15 working days

With this check, we'll look to confirm the details of an individual's employment history.

5-15 working days

This check is intended to secure explanations of any gaps in an individual's activity history when they were neither employed or in full-time education.

On submission

We'll obtain written confirmation of an individual's professional or trade membership, qualification or licence(s).

5-15 working days
Professional Associations

This is a customisable self-declaration questionnaire covering topics such as any financial, regulatory, criminal or conflicts of interest that an individual may have had.

Instant

We will check if candidate's personal details contained within the passport match the code on the machine-readable zone (MRZ), as per ICAO standardisation, cross-check against a database of lost, stolen and compromised passports, and undertake a visual authenticity scan.

Instant

This wide-ranging check establishes whether an individual's or a company's name appears in association with anything from criminal activity and international sanctions through to regulatory penalties and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs).

Instant

We check to see whether an individual is a known animal rights activist.

1-2 working days

We check to see whether an individual has interests or involvement in animal rights and welfare.

2-4 working days

We check to see whether an individual is a known animal rights activist and has interests or involvement in animal rights and welfare.

2-4 working days

Using their current name and key words from their CV, we'll search for adverse information on an individual in over 1000 search engines, including the 'invisible web'. This will cover over 200 languages and billions of archived webpages to search for any web material which highlights adverse online information for an individual.

2-4 working days

Drawing on a global press database of over 20,000 news sources, we'll search for any appearances by an individual in the media, based on their name and the contents of their CV.

1-2 working days

We'll undertake a check of an individual's online reputation across various social media platforms, identifying both positive and negative aspects of their online activity.

2-4 working days