CheckBack International, the Irish-based pre-employment screening company, has come of age with the introduction of its new website and online screening software.
As pre-employment screening becomes increasingly more important in the changing work environment, the availability of CheckBack’s new business process improvement software heralds a new departure for Irish employers and human resource managers, as well as for job applicants.
CheckBack International’s screening software gives clients control over their account and hiring processes from its convenient web-based interface. Clients can manage accounts online and monitor the hiring process in real time. Job applicants can carry out self-assessment using the screening software.
Managing accounts online means that each client has a unique account number that can be used to log into CheckBack to upload or download forms and obtain full account details. On monitoring, clients can monitor the progress of individual screenings and track outstanding work from CheckBack’s client website.
CheckBack International is one of the first companies to offer job applicants an opportunity to present themselves already pre-screened – an advantage to the employer because of the time saved and an advantage to the applicant, who is already ahead in the interview process. www.checkbackinternational.com/apply_online/.
It is estimated that there are fewer than 30 pre-employment screening companies in Britain and Ireland and only a handful make online facilities available to their clients.
The software has been introduced for a number of reasons including:
- To help eliminate the human error factor from the pre-employment screening process;
- To bring more transparency for clients, through auditing reports and online tracking facilities, of all work in progress on screenings;
- To help make CheckBack screening a paperless process;
- To assist small businesses, in particular, that have limited screening requirements. This will allow potential clients to go online and purchase a one-off screening for a new employee;
- To allow a job applicant to have himself or herself pre-screened by an independent agency for presentation at interview stage. This can give the applicant the edge over other unscreened job applicants.
CheckBack International, based in Co Dublin, is part of the FreightWatch Group which recently partnered with Stratfor to bring the first real-time intelligence, analysis and forecasting to the freight and cargo security industry.
