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Biometric Residence Permits come to an end

Guest Writer

October 31, 2024

The Home Office has confirmed that Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) will no longer be issued or replaced from today (31st October 2024) and all UK new visa applicants will be issued with an eVisa. Find out what this means to employee and employers.

Navigating Challenges and Opportunities through Candidate Experience

Guest Writer

August 12, 2024

Guest blog written by Stormie Haller, Director of Marketing at Tracker. Top talent is in high demand and client expectations are soaring. A positive candidate experience has emerged as a non-negotiable factor for success for staffing firms and a true differentiator. While the significance of a great candidate experience is widely acknowledged among staffing professionals, […]

Right to work checks: why should recruitment agencies be carrying out right to work checks and what is likely to happen if they don’t?

Guest Writer

June 17, 2024

Looking to build trust with your prospective candidates? Read on to explore this guide on how to become the go-to employer for candidates in your sector, written by The Genius Group who are a TrustID partner.

How to Build Trust With Candidates

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March 21, 2024

Looking to build trust with your prospective candidates? Read on to explore this guide on how to become the go-to employer for candidates in your sector, written by The Genius Group who are a TrustID partner.

7 Practical Tips to Reduce Bias in Recruitment

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December 19, 2022

In order to create a truly diverse workforce, you must create a recruitment process that embraces diversity on every level. So how do you start building a hiring process focused on diversity?

The five types of background checks that an employer might make

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November 25, 2022

With hiring managers often facing large volumes of applications or CVs to wade through on top of their day job, it’s perhaps not surprising that these embellishments are not always detected.

What 5 things can we do as recruiters to improve the interview process?

Guest Writer

November 24, 2022

The interview has an obvious place in most recruitment processes today. But why is the interview so important? Many employers see the interview as the first, and perhaps the only, opportunity to get a good picture of the person applying for the job.

4 steps to sensitively deal with fake identity documents

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March 21, 2020

Whilst there’s a lot of information available about how to check identity documents for counter fraud or Right to Work compliance, there’s little guidance about what action to take when a document fails your checks. Here’s 4 steps to sensitively deal with fake identity documents.

A case of identity fraud in the insurance sector

Guest Writer

June 6, 2017

Fraud is such a pervasive crime with each industry susceptible to different types of fraud schemes and few more so than Insurance companies, particularly due to the advent of online policies. In this guest blog, Jill Battley CFE, a Director of TrustID with extensive investigative fraud experience, shares a summary of a genuine fraud case in the insurance sector, exploring the background, the risks, the result and what steps could be taken to prevent it.

How we protect our recruitment business from illegal workers

Guest Writer

August 11, 2016

With the number of fake passports seized at UK borders reaching a five-year high and high-profile stories of ‘illegal workers’ hitting the press, such as the tale of Byron Burgers, many companies may be concerned about their own screening and on-boarding process. In our guest blog, Abbie Pullman, Head of Talent Management at Off to Work, the UK’s leading event staffing solutions, consultancy, recruitment and training academy, shares her ‘Top 10 Tips’ for protecting a business from the risks of illegal workers.