Category Archives: Pre-employment Screening

5 big security mistakes you’re probably making

Companies get hacked so often you’d think it was magic, but it really stems from chronic inability to follow basic security measures. Read More….

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Just over 4,000 offenders applied for teachers’ jobs in 2011, including paedophiles, violent thugs and drug dealers, the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has revealed.

The CRB issued this statement: “Good recruitment practices, such as thorough reference checking, are a key responsibility for all employers, especially those working with children and vulnerable groups. “Criminal records checks are just one of a range of tools to … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of our subscribers

2012 promises to be an exciting year for Agenda not least because of the launch of our new Candidate Input System to further improve our pre-employment screening processes, with even higher levels of security, even greater Data Protection compliance, less … Continue reading

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Agenda – Happy Bloggers!

Agenda has developed a new system for blogging useful pre-employment screening and security news items; we have also re-blogged all of our older guidance and news articles to enable them to be searched more effectively. Using a series of key … Continue reading

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Organisations continue to employ illegal workers

The UK Border Agency removed over 40,000 immigration offenders in 2010, and they detected close to 6,000 forged travel or supporting documents in visa applications made in Pakistan alone.  Organisations face on-the-spot penalty notices for employing illegal workers and fines … Continue reading

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Agenda – Proud to be Part of AUCSO Meeting Success!

Agenda was a proud sponsor of the recent Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO) conference which was held in Bristol. The event was spread over 3 days and attracted over 80 delegates from around the United Kingdom and mainland … Continue reading

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Interested in Information Security? – choose ISO27001, we did and we have never looked back!

Because we conduct professional pre-employment screening services we focus specifically on compliance with the Data Protection Act, the management and control of confidential materials and we support the crack down on misuse of personal information. All of this means that … Continue reading

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Qualifications! – We take nothing at face value – do you?

The increase in news stories about fake qualification certificates and diploma mills is a great reminder why we should check such documents at source. At Agenda we take great care in ensuring that when a qualification or membership check is … Continue reading

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ISO27001 Audit Success!

Agenda’s ISO27001 Information Management Security Standard certification is fundamental to ensuring the security of information for clients, candidates and for Agenda itself, having incorporated the BS7858 security screening and BS8470 destruction of confidential materials codes of practice into its audited … Continue reading

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AGENDA’S SCREENING AUDIT PAPER FEATURED IN WORKPLACELAW

According to a recent article in the May/June 2010 edition of the Workplacelaw magazine which featured the results of an audit of pre-employment screening and security compliance of 35 interim, temporary and permanent staffing agencies you should be very concerned.  … Continue reading

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