The law demands that employers run background checks on their employees and to ensure that all their employees are well-equipped to handle their obligations. For the said purpose, the law also requires employers to run background checks and conduct a screening process for the employees even after employment commonly referred to as “post-employment screening”. Fair Credit Reporting Act recommends it to be done by a reliable third party as DE RISC Group so that no biasness is incorporated to the process.

With increasing international degree-mill scams as Axact and others, risks associated with the authenticity of a candidates’ educational qualifications have increased manifold. Hence, it is essential to verify educational qualifications of candidates. Employers usually confuse CRA based verification with attestation (to be performed by a candidate himself), but these are different, since the mentioned degree mills were providing candidates with certificates having fake attestation from relevant regulatory body. By verification, we mean the contents of certificate as enrolment ID, institution attended, the date of attendance, the qualification awarded and the graduation dates.

Identity check is the foremost background check to ensure that the candidate is the same person that he claims to be. We tend verify the identity of candidate as well it entails a digital verification of their provided address. ID or passport of a candidate is verified during the process and services for physical address verification can also be provided (additional charges apply).

Since most of the technical jobs requires a candidate to have certain qualifications and memberships, our analysts provide recruiters with the verified details as of authenticity of certificate/membership, time of completion, validity and time of expiry.

Our employment history check shall verify previous duration of employment, positions held, remuneration, responsibilities and reason for leaving of a potential candidate. Our analysts shall also lookout for candidates’ activities during any gaps from employments.

To acquire information about a candidate’s background locally and to ascertain that there is no involvement in related criminal activities, we recommend a local police verification to our clients.
- Following types of criminal checks are offered from our side;
a) Criminal Court Records Search
The search is conducted through access of criminal litigation records against the subject.
b) Criminal Watchlists Check
The search is conducted through local and international criminal watchlists using the pre-dominantly used index (identifier) of the subject.
c) Local Police Verification
The verification is conducted through a visit to local police station per subject’s permanent address or access to the lists of criminals issued by ministry of interior/defence by our source to ascertain if the subject’s name is there in any case.
d) Police Clearance/Conviction Certificate
This involves a paper-based procedure in which an application signed and stamped from the candidate along his biometrics (for some countries) is submitted for the retrieval of police certificate from the concerned authorities.

Certain regulated industries are required to conduct a financial regulatory check before hiring new personnel at the executive or top financial positions such as managing director, chief financial officers, mortgage brokers, investment bankers, chief executive officers or directors. Search primarily looks out for any disqualification from holding senior roles within Banking, Finance, Securities and Investment sector. Usually, red flags shall include being banned from practicing in financial services industry, expired or invalid license to work, or liable to a previously accepted enforceable undertaking.

Bankruptcy check investigates if a candidate is declared bankrupt from any financial institution. Significance of this check pertains in knowing of the candidate’s previous financial situation (primarily in last 5 years). In some other scenarios, bankruptcy search is also conducted to know whether the person who have applied for the loan, mortgage or the purchaser, is bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy.

To avoid any conflict of interest and to make sure that employee’s contribution is exclusive to the employer, directorship checks provides an assurance while hiring for top level management, then it must make sure that the candidate is not involved in any directorship. Furthermore, it is also essential to know if the candidate is holding the shares of another company.

Our civil litigation check provides employers with the details of candidate’s personal legal disputes may it be the one filed by candidate or against him in the trial courts. Primary research is conducted in these checks from district courts.

Credit check of both present and new employees is significant for most of the employers. This type of check helps in accessing the financial background of employee so that the employer can avoid any future losses. We tend to provide recruiters with negative credit ratings of candidate (if applicable) as well any negative judgements by financial institutions against them.

To establish a candidate’s legitimacy at work, we look out for any previously accepted restrictive clauses during employment; warnings; dependability issues; disciplinary actions, claims by or their former employer; acts of dishonesty and their eligibility for rehire in a comparable role. A significant portion of candidate’s previous behaviour is assessed during our interaction with his peers and provided work references.

Our media check looks out for any red flags in the public profile of candidate, for which we entail discrete scrutiny for the given predominantly used index over national level electronic and print media as well as regional level newspapers per given address of the candidates.

Knowing that PEP generally present a higher risk for potential involvement in bribery and corruption by virtue of their position and the influence that they may hold, being an investigative concern, De RISC Group utilizes its access to proprietary databases for politically exposed persons list issued by relevant government departments for the convicted criminals.

Our service will check the attributes of a driving license up against relevant traffic department / credible data sources. It helps to see any prevalent traffic violations reported against the subject and authenticates the validity of identity document.

Our debarment check is a database search that validates an individual’s sanctions or debarment to fulfil a particular role or provide services in a particular region.

The police verification is usually conducted through the National or Local Police based on the jurisdiction of the city provided. This search will report back felony level convictions in the past 5-7 years.

This service provided by DE RISC Group will check the attributes of a Motor Vehicle Registration up against relevant traffic department / credible data sources. In some regions, it’ll also report back the history of transfers.

Our Passport Verification analyzes, verifies and authenticates over 3,500 types of documents from around the world against global reference database / relevant government department. Our document verification partner performs checks that determine the authenticity, legitimacy, and if a document it is forged or altered.