Identity and qualification checking - how it affects employers and employees

Over the last few years the issue of illegal immigrants entering Britain has gained a very high profile in the news media and has helped fuel a great deal of acrimony in political debates.

Many employees and job applicants might feel slightly resentful of background checks being carried out. However, it is a good idea to bear in mind the potential problems caused by either no or inadequate employee background checks. The person who has been employed and has no work permit will be taking away the opportunity for employment from either a British citizen or an immigrant who has a valid work permit. The fact is that there are fewer opportunities for employment these days and this situation is likely to continue for a few years yet.

We at PeopleChecking will be able to carry out these checks, thus allowing the employers to focus their attention and energy on dealing with the day to day running of the business.

Along with the background checks for identity, equally as important are qualification checks. There are a good many ways of obtaining 'degrees' and other qualifications that would make the applicant seem ideally suited for the post.

Online degrees are becoming very popular, unlike the Open University courses, these degrees are given to a person based on their work experience. The problem is that the degrees are issued after little or no academic work is done by the applicants and only after a fairly substantial sum of money has changed hands.

If an employer is pressed for time he may only give the qualification a cursory examination and decide to select the 'degree' holder over another applicant with the same amount of experience but no qualification, this decision being purely based on the fact of a qualification with little merit.

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