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Recruitment Screening

Recruitment Screening Software

Whether it's right to work, DBS, identity or reference checks, speed and compliance are critical. With our automated recruitment screening software, you can cut your time to hire in half, protect your recruitment agency from costly fines, and get candidates cleared quickly and efficiently.

Seamless screening and vetting experience for your candidates cut your time to hire by 50% 

Run automated, secure, and reliable background checks for your agency and clients and place candidates in roles quicker than ever. With proactive monitoring and secure, automated processing, your agency can run background checks seamlessly and effortlessly, freeing you from mindless, time-consuming tasks.  

  • 17+ hours saved per worker during onboarding 
  • 40% reduced admin costs by automating your processes 
  • 2-3 minutes—the average time to get results from our next-gen checks 

Give your candidates and teams the onboarding experience they deserve

Designed for flexibility, built for speed our new onboarded platform transforms the entire onboarding process. From pre-hire checks, inductions, contracts, e-signatures - you name it, Access Onboarded handles it all. No nonsense, just seamless candidate and client onboarding end-to-end that guarantees full compliance.

Candidate screening that works with you, not against you

Whether you're placing same-day temp roles or filling white-collar perm positions, every candidate needs to pass through screening.

  • Reduce background check times and speed up placements with Access Screening’s automation.
  • Cut time to hire by 50% with next-gen tech and deep integrations with background check partners.
  • Stay in control with our intuitive compliance dashboard, tracking candidate progress every step of the way.
  • Integrated with top CRMs like Access Recruitment and Vincere, guaranteeing seamless data flow.

Comply with new legislation changes and avoid fines

Stay compliant and avoid hefty fines of up to £60,000 by ensuring your recruitment software adheres to new laws and stringent data privacy regulations. With Access Screening, you’ll always stay ahead of the latest legislation, protecting your business’s reputation.

  • Automated alerts when key candidate documents are about to expire 

  • Fully auditable case history makes compliance audits effortless 

  • Back by bank-grade encryption keeping your data secure.  

Automate your pre- and post-employment checks

Save up to 40% of your time and drive hiring efficiency with automated workflows. Choose the checks you need - right to work, DBS, social media, or detailed employment references and build them into seamless automated workflows, cutting out hours of manual processing.

  • 40+ library of background checks, including DBS, DVLA, social media and instant referencing 

  • Reduce admin time and manual processes 

  • Deliver accurate and consistent results every time

Make your brand your own

Put your brand front and centre. Customise your Access Screening platform with your logo, colours, and messaging to deliver a seamless and consistent candidate experience.

Built-in accessibility and inclusion

Imagine a diversity and inclusion onboarding experience tailored to every new hire's needs, supporting various learning styles and linguistic abilities with options like audio or visual formats. You go beyond setting standards, you set the pace. Explore all the features the Assistive Toolbar can offer to empower your business.

Recruitment screening software trusted by the UK's leading companies

Evolve your agency’s background screening strategy through automation!

Next-gen background checks powered by market-leading suppliers and integrations

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Case study  - Carrington West

Discover how Carrington West streamlined their compliance process to deliver a faster and more accurate service to their clients.

With Access Screening they achieved:

  • Immediate savings around time saving and accuracy
  • Less time chasing references and required documentation
  • Reduced backlog of outstanding documents
  • Less direct queries from candidates on the onboarding process

Our background check time is much faster – having reduced from an average of up to a week to regularly returned within 48 hours.

Ella Razzell, Compliance Manager​, Carrington West

Recruitment screening software FAQs

Why is recruitment screening so important for agencies?

We all have a responsibility to ensure we are hiring the right candidates safely and securely. If you can demonstrate a rigid, scalable and efficient screening process as an agency you can mitigate the risk of bad hires for both yourselves and your clients and demonstrate a level of service that will differentiate you from your competitors. 

What are the benefits for recruitment businesses to implement screening software?’

There are huge benefits to implementing a reliable and efficient screening software, including but not limited to:

  • onboarding candidates quickly
  • validating and processing a high volume of documents
  • tracking candidate progress
  • reducing manual admin
  • improving your time to hire
  • ensuring you’re always compliant to the latest legislations
  • improving your candidate experiences

What are the different methods to screening for recruitment agencies?

Pre-employment screening checks have been and always will be a pivotal step that employers will need to go through when onboarding candidates for a specific role. The method in which recruitment agencies use to verify information provided by job candidates and identify potential red flags, is still completely up to the organisation. Agencies are able to conduct their screening in a number of ways with some businesses opting for a more traditional manual process, whilst others are continue to adapt with an automated solution to keep up with the times.

Read our article about methods for screening candidates.

Do recruitment agencies need to conduct Right to Work checks?

Every recruitment agency in the UK should already be aware of this and conducting Right to Work checks as a standard background check within their screening processes. All agencies in the UK are legally required to check a candidate's right to work before presenting them to their clients. The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 calls for all employers, including recruitment agencies, to carry out right to work checks on their potential employees.

Resources

Delivering vetting and screening checks for the recruitment sector

If you're thinking of making the switch from a manual or partially automated process to reap the benefits of an integrated screening solution, then you will likely need a documented business case to sell the advantages of screening software to your internal stakeholders.

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Top 5 pain points recruiters and agencies encounter

Explore the key pain points recruiters and agencies confront when striving to strike a balance between thorough vetting and compliance with ever-changing legislation.

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Evolving the pre-employment background screening strategy in your recruitment agency

For anyone looking to build a business case for candidate screening software, you will need to understand the finer details of how it will impact your processes and compliance.

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Access Screening – Spotlight on … Recruitment agencies

Pre-employment screening and rescreening play crucial roles for recruitment agencies in ensuring the quality, reliability, and compliance of candidates they place with client companies. 

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'5 Steps to digitising your candidate compliance strategy’ eBook

A helpful guide to evolving your onboarding process and delivering a reliable compliance strategy through automation.

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'The Need for Speed!’ Whitepaper: Unlocking successful candidate onboarding through digitisation

Discover Access Screening’s 2022 research in conjunction with In-House Recruitment, displaying the potential for screening opportunities.

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