Probity & Compliance History

Does your candidate have a clean probity history?

Financial Services, Banking, and Insurance are among the most highly regulated industries in Australia and New Zealand.

Working with APRA, ASIC, the ABA, and other industry bodies, TalentScreen provides a range of packaged probity and compliance checks to ensure ongoing compliance. We conduct specific compliance checks in past employment, as well as Anti Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorism Funding (CTF), PEP, AFSL, Authorised Reps, Banned and Disqualified, and others.

Our pre-employment Probity and Compliance Checks are conducted within the framework of HB322 and AS4811, as well as the guidelines of the ABA, NIBA, IFSA, and AFA.

We assist Financial Services, Insurance, and Banking firms every day to meet internal compliance arrangements, as well as the complex statutory licensing regimes, to ensure that people working in the industry maintain the highest standards of professionalism and competence. 

ASIC Directors and Shareholdings

 ASIC Directorship & Other Significant Shareholding Checks are used to report on an individual's dealings as a company director or controlling party. These include current and past directorships, banned and disqualified from being a director, as well as any enforceable undertakings.

If conflict of interest, shareholdings, executive and non-executive directorship roles are important to your business and the role you are hiring for, then an ASIC Directorship & Other Significant Shareholding pre-employment check should be on your list.

This will show what other companies each person is currently associated with, or has been involved in as a company officer, shareholder or member, as well as any ASIC enforceable undertakings.

Enforceable undertakings are undertakings given to and agreed by ASIC, which are enforceable in a court of law. Undertakings are used by ASIC as an alternative to civil or administrative action where there has been a contravention of any legislation administered by ASIC.

Reference Checks

Behavioural Checks, done by humans, or fully automated.

Reference checking is a significant skill. At TalentScreen, our verifiers are skilled at listening, and understanding responses. 

We always begin by ensuring the person we are speaking to is an actual line manager, who had direct responsibility for managing the performance of the individual, rather than a friend or peer, as so often happens.

Through experience, when listening to responses we know when to dig a little deeper, when to rephrase the question, when to continue to look for specific objective examples of the candidate's performance, or KPIs that you may be interested in. 

Outsourcing reference checks is efficient, and produces significant advantages over performing them inhouse. We have thousands of hours of experience, and we can partner with you to bring those benefits to your hiring process.

Driver Licence and Traffic History

Clean drivers licence? Heavy vehicle licecne? Forklift ticket? 

Licences, certificates, and memberships are just some of the areas we verify for our clients using our licence check services. Today it is prudent for every employer to validate that their employees are licenced appropriately, both to ensure compliance with law, and to protect against vicarious liability.

A licence check by My Verification Service is a simple way to assess suitability and reliability of candidates whose job may require them to drive a company vehicle, and to assess whether a candidate will meet industry requirements. Information reported includes validity, actual classes of licence, and impairments.

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• Name the licence or certificate was issued in.
• Class/Type of licence.
• Issuing authority.
• Issue date.
• Expiry date.

 

Global Media Checks

Global Media Checks are an important consideration when filling senior roles, and roles where the candidate is going to be a face of your organisation.

You need to know what information about your candidate is in the public domain, and whether that information could be embarrassing or sensitive, either to the role, or your organisation.

At TalentScreen, we have extensive experience in Global Media Checks.  Apart from the usual searches of Google, Bing and other engines, we also use a number of news aggregators, that take information globally. We use sophisticated search terms that combine the person, their geography, industry and role, to ensure that if there is information in the public domain, we can report accurately, confidently, and fairly.

A Global Media Check should always form part of your pre-employment screening process for senior placements, and politically sensitive roles.