Employee screening: resources
Section seven of the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide on employee screening, comprising a directory of useful resources. Other sections .
Research
Employing people with criminal records
CIPD, February 2002
Explains the essential elements of the Police Act 1997, outlines best practice in recruiting people with criminal records, looks at risk assessment, employers' duty of care and corporate responsibility, and at the issue of spent convictions and the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974
Available from: www.cipd.co.uk
IRS Employment Review, 19 May 2002
Study of 99 employers who use employment agencies. Looks at areas such as how organisations choose and use agencies, new regulations governing the industry, and agency cost structures
Data Protection and employment practice
IRS Employment Review, 24 June 2002
IRS' third guidance note on data protection, covering the Employment Practices DP Code Part 1: Recruitment and Selection
References
CIPD, 2001
Explains how to get the most out of the reference process and considers the legal aspects of giving and using references
Available from: www.cipd.co.uk
Setting the tone: job descriptions and person specifications
IRS Employment Review, May 2003
A study of 250 organisations on their use of job descriptions, how they are updated and used in recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection tools
IRS Management Review, October 2001
Looks at how selection process is altering with testing and telephone screening becoming more popular. Cost-effectiveness and quality candidates are priorities in choosing recruitment and selection techniques. Also looks at formal evaluation, competency frameworks and involvement of line managers
References: the check's in the post
IRS Employment Review, March 2002
A study of reference checking, including a survey of 113 employers, looking at timing, choosing referees and providing a structure to the reference checking process
UK line managers - are they good enough?
Personnel Today, 2003
Survey of 700 HR professionals highlighting concerns over line managers' capabilities. Only a quarter of HR professionals think their managers have the necessary skills to take the company forward in the next three to five years, yet almost half of respondents believe their organisation fails to allocate an adequate budget for developing line managers
Available from: personneltoday.com/resources
More than half of job-seekers lie or mislead on their CVs
The Risk Advisory Group (TRAG), 2002
This survey showed that more than half of CVs submitted in 2002 contained inaccuracies or lies. Fifty six per cent of investigations by TRAG's employee screening unit found lies or inaccuracies ranging from gaps in employment to falsified qualifications and fraud committed against previous employers. The results are from analysis of 2,700 investigations.
Available from: www.riskadvisory.net
Telephone skills
CIPD, 2001
This study looks at the disadvantages and advantages of telephone interviewing, and gives advice on how to get the most out of interviewing over the telephone.
Available from: www.cipd.co.uk
Books and other publications
Recruitment and selection: A competency based approach
By Gareth Roberts
ISBN 085292707X
Helps managers with all aspects of recruitment, including drawing up role and person specifications, screening candidates against appropriate criteria and checking references
Available from: www.cipd.co.uk
Employment and ex-offenders
TUC, 2001
ISBN 1850065772
Available from: www.tuc.org.uk
Recruiting and employing offenders
2001
By D R Fletcher
ISBN 1842630369
Available from: the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, www.jrf.org.uk
Recruitment and Selection: a framework for success
By Dominic Cooper, Ivan T Robertson and Gordon Tinline
ISBN 1861527810
This book looks at issues such as setting decision-making standards, optimising design and return on investment of selection procedures
Recruiting within the law
By Patricia Leighton and Giles Proctor
ISBN 1843980053
This book looks at anti-discrimination law, the extension of protection to include sexual orientation and religious beliefs, and equal pay legislation
Conducting a recruitment/selection interview
By Jon Warner
ISBN 1740093372
A manager's guide to recruitment and selection (MBA Masterclass series)
By Margaret Dale
ISBN 0749438967
Who to contact
Acas
Provides advice and guidance on recruitment
Brandon
House
180 Borough High
Street
London
SE1 1LW
Tel: 08457 474747
Apex Trust
Charity providing advice in recruiting and employing ex-offenders
St
Alphage House
Wingate
Annexe
2 Fore
Street
London
EC2Y 5DA
Tel: 020 7638
Apex Scotland
9 Great
Stuart Street
Edinburgh
EH3 7TP
Tel: 0131 2206796
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Membership body for HR professionals producing research and best practice in recruitment and selection
35 Camp
Road
London
SW19 4UX
Tel: 020 8971 9000
Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)
Advises on race issues in employment
St
Dunstans House
201-211 Borough
High Street
London
SE1 1GZ
Tel: 020 7939 0000
Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
Government agency handling and advising on criminal record checks
PO Box
110
Liverpool
L3 6ZZ
Tel: 0870 909 0811
Disability Rights Commission (DRC)
Gives advice and guidance on disability, rights and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Disability Rights Helpline
Freepost MID02164
Stratford upon Avon
CV37 9BR
Tel: 08457 622633
Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
Provides advice and guidance on recruitment and equal opportunities
Arndale
House, Arndale Centre
Manchester
M4 3EQ
Tel: 9845 601 5901
EOC Scotland
St
Stephens House
279 Bath
Street
Glasgow
G2 4JL
Tel: 0845 601 5901
EOC Wales
Windsor
House
Windsor
Lane
Cardiff
CF10 3GE
Tel: 029 2034 3552
Experian
Pre-employment screening product Candidate Verifier
Tel: 0115 901 6004
http://www.candidateverifier.com
Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Body set up to check whether individuals are suitably fit to work in the financial sector
Tel: 0208 5852345
Information Commission
Gives advice and guidance on application of Data Protection Act 1998 and codes of practice
Wycliffe House, Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.org.uk
Institute for Personality and Aptitude Testing (IPAT)
Developed the 16PF questionnaire
Kroll Personnel Risk Management
Risk assessment and pre-employment screening
Tel: 01273 700242/020 7029 5196
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO)
Advises on recruiting and employing ex-offenders
169
Clapham Road
London
SW9 OPU
Tel: 020 7582 6500
OPP
Psychometric testing company
Tel: 01865 404500
The Risk Advisory Group
Risk assessment and candidate screening
Tel: 020 7578 0000
Recruitment Employment Confederation (REC)
Representative body for recruitment and employment agencies. Now incorporates the Association for Selection and Search Consultants (ASCC)
Tel: 020 7462 3260
SHL
Psychometric testing company
Tel: 020 8585 2400
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One stop guide on employee screening: other sections Section one: The importance of screening candidates Section two: Policy and process Section three: Methods of employee screening Section four: Recruitment and selection Section seven: Resources Section nine: Model documents (this section contains a job description for a senior manager, application forms for manual posts and non-manual posts, a reference request form and reference clause in an offer letter, all of which can be found in the recruitment section of XpertHR's policies and documents service)
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