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Recruitment Screening

Recruitment Screening Software

Whether you need to conduct Right to Work, DBS, identity or reference checks, it is imperative your business can speed up your time to hire, screening candidates, and protect your recruitment agency from fines with our fast automated candidate screening software.

Deliver a reliable screening and vetting process for your agency and clients

As a recruitment agency or recruitment business, understanding the need for an efficient and thorough screening and vetting process is crucial in today’s fast-paced job market. As you will undoubtedly know, the recruitment sector plays a key role in linking up job seekers with potential employers, making it essential that every candidate is fit for the prospective role. Not only do recruitment businesses need to ensure the candidate is qualified, but also making sure the candidate meets the highest standards of integrity and compliance.

With automated processing and proactive monitoring all available through a secure portal, businesses can ensure checks are carried out seamlessly without the need for lengthy manual processes when they implement Access Screening into their agency.

Benefits of candidate screening software for recruitment agencies

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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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Recruitment technology that plugs into one innovative platform

From software products designed to solve key challenges, to a fully integrated solution:

- Attract and reach candidates with Access Volcanic

- Place more candidates quicker with Access Recruitment CRM and Vincere

- Ensure your agency is always compliant with Access Screening

- Pay staff and bill clients with our recruitment agency payroll software Access Pay and Bill and Access FastTrack360

- Accounts and credit control with Access Financials

- Give candidates the pay flexibility they deserve with Access EarlyPay

Discover how Access can help your entire recruitment business become more productive and efficient – giving you the freedom to focus on clients and candidates.