Employee screening resources & insights

The professional challenges of women in the workplace

In the 21st century, the workplace has evolved significantly, with greater strides towards gender equality being taken every year. However, women s...
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Why sector standardisation in hiring is vital

In recruitment, the statistics on the slowness of hiring processes, coupled with the escalating sophistication of tactics employed by fraudsters, a...
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Safer Hiring: How Hiring Fraud Can Impact your Organisation

Deceptive and fraudulent recruitment practices are an ongoing problem, with increasing numbers of fraudsters taking advantage of online channels to...
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Webinar Roundup: Making UK Hiring the Fastest Globally

In this webinar, we heard from the Better Hiring Institute and the APPG for Modernising Hiring about the work that is happening to ensure the UK’s ...
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How to Make the Business Case for Digital Hiring

In an era defined by rapid technological advancement, businesses are continually challenged to adapt and embrace digital transformation. One area w...
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How to get employer referencing right

When we ask employers about their recruitment processes, referencing is time and time again stated as the most significant pain point. It’s the slo...
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Event roundup: Digitising employee screening

After undergoing significant transformation over the past two years, our most recent Reed Screening event discussed the future of digitisation for ...
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How to hire and screen remote workers effectively

It’s no secret that many more people are working remotely now. The pandemic pushed forward the widespread use of remote working tools, including vi...
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How Digital DBS checks can improve the recruitment process

DBS checks form a vital part of the screening process, particularly for positions that involve interaction with vulnerable people including childre...
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Hiring for education: Industry best practice

The education sector requires robust recruitment procedures to ensure the safety of students and vulnerable adults, as well as a high quality of pe...
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Digital ID: What are the possibilities?

Digital ID screening as part of Right to Work checks has been available to employers as a legitimate option now for a year. The benefits that the i...
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AI vs. the human touch - how to get the balance right in recruitment

The use of AI in general is becoming increasingly widespread. The use of open-source programmes such as Chat GPT, for example, is becoming commonpl...
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