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
Improve time to hire
Access Screening offers a game-changing solution that will captivate recruiters and agencies.
With our cutting-edge technology, agencies can experience a remarkable 40% reduction in time to hire. Imagine the immense impact this will have on your administrative workload, freeing up your precious time for you to focus on what truly matters: hiring exceptional talent.
Our streamlined screening process, powered by automated software, efficiently validates and processes a large influx of documents and passport checks. Say goodbye to tedious manual tasks and hello to a streamlined onboarding experience as we swiftly create profiles for each and every candidate.
Stay in control with our comprehensive compliance dashboard, allowing you to effortlessly track candidate progress at every stage.
Comply with legislations
At Access Recruitment, we understand the criticality of compliance when it comes to utilising screening software within your recruitment agency. It's imperative for recruitment businesses to guarantee that the software they choose adheres to anti-discrimination laws and stringent data privacy regulations.
Our software is purpose-built to provide you with peace of mind, ensuring unwavering compliance with the latest legislation. Say goodbye to potential fines and safeguard your business' reputation through our automatic alert system, which promptly notifies you of approaching expiration dates for candidate passports, visas, or DBS checks.
Our fully auditable case history feature makes reporting and audits effortless, empowering you to breeze through compliance requirements. Rest assured, your information is safeguarded with state-of-the-art banking-grade encryption, ensuring the utmost protection.
Automate reference checks
Get ready to bring your reference checks out of a manual process with the power of Access Screening software.
By automating this crucial step, you'll experience time savings of up to 40% and enhanced hiring efficiency. Our cutting-edge technology streamlines the process, enabling recruiters to effortlessly reach out to references and gather feedback through an automated system.
Say goodbye to the painful task of manually contacting references and following up with them. Embrace the benefits of automation as it brings forth a more objective and standardised approach to collecting feedback. This leads to highly accurate and consistent results, ensuring you make well-informed decisions.
Right to Work checks
Unlock the power of streamlined right to work checks with Access Screening for your recruitment agency.
Our automated screening solution guarantees compliance with the latest legislation while quickly verifying a candidate's eligibility to work in any given country. Bid farewell to the agonising task of manual verification as our technology effortlessly handles this crucial step.
Not only does automation save valuable time and resources, but it also ensures a consistent and thorough approach to right to work checks, leaving no room for human error or oversight. Embrace the future of recruiting, where compliance is seamlessly integrated into your workflow, enhancing efficiency and mitigating risks.
With Access Screening, you can confidently navigate the complex landscape of right to work checks, making informed hiring decisions with ease.
Personalise with your brand
Personalise your Access Screening platform with your brand to help create a consistent and cohesive hiring experience for candidates.
By customising our software with your organisation's logo, colors, and messaging, you can reinforce your brand identity and make a positive impression on candidates. This can help candidates feel more connected to your organisation and create a sense of familiarity and trust.
Personalising the software can also enhance your employer brand and differentiate your organisation from competitors. By incorporating your brand into the software, you can create a seamless and professional hiring experience that reflects positively on your organisation.
Consistent candidate experience
Access Screening can help provide a consistent candidate experience by streamlining the hiring process and ensuring that candidates receive clear and timely communication throughout the process.
This technology can help automate and standardise key aspects of the screening process, such as background checks, reference checks, and right to work checks.
By providing a consistent and transparent screening process, candidates can feel confident that they are being treated fairly and consistently, regardless of the position they are applying for.
Accessibility & Inclusion
There is a huge highlight on diversity, equity and inclusion within recruitment, and the onboarding process is no different – it is crucial for businesses to incorporate inclusion and accessibility into their onboarding and screening processes to build a diverse and equitable workplace. This in turn creates an environment where individuals of all abilities and backgrounds can thrive, contributing to a more innovative and high-performing team.
Organisations can achieve this by designing accessible onboarding materials that cater to various learning styles and linguistic abilities. Providing alternative formats, such as audio or visual options, ensures that information is accessible to all. Universal design principles help eliminate barriers, promoting inclusivity from the outset.
Access Screening is partnered with Recite Me to deliver the accessibility Assistive Toolbar to our screening platform. For more information, take a look through all the features that the Assistive Toolbar could provide your business.
Avoid hefty fines
Access Screening can help organisations avoid hefty fines of up to £20,000 by ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and regulations.
Our background screening technology can help automate key aspects of the screening process, such as right to work checks and background checks, ensuring that the organisation is following best practices and meeting legal requirements.
By providing a standardisedand consistent approach to screening, Access Screening can reduce the likelihood of errors or oversights that could result in fines or legal issues.
Increase speed-to-hire by over 50%
Screening software for all businesses
Automate your pre-employment screening to reduce admin and risk and improve your time to hire. Over 140 candidate background checks, including Right to Work, DBS, referencing and many more through one configurable platform.
Right to Work app
Comply with the latest Home Office regulations in less than five steps with our pay-as you-go Right to Work app. Designed for companies with less complex screening requirements or lower volume hiring.
140+ Background Checks
- Right to Work
- Identity checks
- References
- Basic / Standard / Enhanced DBS Checks
- Qualification checks
- Credit checks
- Occupational health checks
- Social media checks
- Sanctions
- Directorships
- DVLA
- Adverse Media
Looking for an integrated screening solution with your recruitment CRM?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
'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.
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.
