Credit check services available for recruiters

Past Employment Verification

Recruitment agencies and the potential employers themselves want to check if the data you have provided on your CV is correct.

How do they do it?

There are few ways; the most common one would be calling all the previous employers and simply confirming the time you have spent at the company. This solution sounds quite fair, but in a hindsight its is timely and costly exercise.

I-Check Data Solutions provides a tool that allows an individual or company to check the history of a potential candidate or company details within seconds.

Type the name, surname and basic information provided by the client – and here we go! Within a fraction of the second it’s displayed in a easy to read report on your computer’s screen.

Job application Credit Checks

Companies are running credit checks on job applicant and employees considered for promotion or financial position. It is crucial for the management to know what credit situation the proposed employee is in and make a decision if one can be trusted with financial management of the business.

Please make note that a credit report can’t be run without ones consent. The written permission is always required from he applicant or an employee.

There is also some information that the recruiter may not be eligible to see. The fields which are allowed are as follows:

  • Name and surname
  • Address and previous addresses
  • Telephone numbers
  • ID number and possible matches of the ID number
  • Enquiry counts of:
    • Admin Orders
    • Collections
    • Judgements
    • Adverses
    • Fraud Alert
    • Definite Matches
    • Possible Matches
    • Addresses
    • Telephones
    • Employers
    • Previous Enquiries
  • Activities:
    • Activities
    • Enquiries
    • Loans
    • Judgements
    • Collections
    • Admin
    • Orders
    • Balance
    • Instalment
  • Admin orders
  • Collections
  • Debt restructuring information
  • Previous and recent employers
  • Number of enquiries

Recruiters are not allowed to see the money the candidate owes on particular accounts (like retail accounts etc.)