Thread: Security Check at Interview - What do they check!?

Hi

Any help would be much appreciated.

I had an interview this morning at a company that quite rightly has high security due to the nature of its business.

Before the interview started, they requested that I complete a security check form giving my full name and addresses in the last 3 years. From this they will do a security check to ensure I can work for them if successful at interview.

What do they check, does anyone know!?

I have a police caution from last year. It did not ask on the form to disclose any such information, so can they therefore check if I do?

Many thanks for your help.

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Hi

I am not applying to work with children or vunerable people, security I guess more around the fact that they produce very valuable products.

If they are going to do a check of police records, should they not indicate this, or can this all be included within a 'security check'?

Thanks for your help.

Can you please clarify?

Your employers must have given you a CRB form to complete, how else are they able to security check you?

I think, in a nut shell, you have put my query into better words!

I have not filled in a CRB form, just an internal form from them I guess on which I had to detail my addresses over the last 3 years and my full name and date of birth.

They will then perform a security check.

I am just curious as to what they will check, if anyone knows!?

Yes, I'd agree with Ell-enn, this appears to be more of a credit check which the employers are calling a security check.

I think CRB ask for the last 5 years of address anyway.

I,m just applying for a job and they to are going to do a check on me.As far as i,m aware it,s all your criminal records including live and spent records.They send your prospective employer one copy and another copy to you.

Why would they do a credit check? My credit history has nothing to do with my suitability for or ability to do a job!?

It is a far call from the job that I applied for, but at say the airports, do they not do 'security checks' on staff? What do these entail?

Thanks.

Again, as Ell-enn has said, credit checks for a job are becoming far more common than they once were and are for the reasons Ell-enn states.

But should they not then just say that they want to carry out a credit check?

Do people not need permission to check other people's credit file? Specific permission, not just permission to do a 'security check'?

Thanks.

Hi,
In the line of work I do, I have to have higher security checks which entails detailing a police caution I received 14 years ago.

I have done so (am obliged to do so) and you know what-I no longer worry about it. I know many people with cautions / convictions from the past but because they declared them they were not barred from the job applications or gaining employment.

Your Police Caution is relatively new, if you are asked to declare it then do so. General policy is to be honest. If you hide it then you will end up worse of.

I wish you luck and hope that you do not stress yourself out with worry and take note that approximately 25% of the UK working population have in their time received a caution!

Thank you very much Gogivit. I appreciate your comments.

I haven't actually as yet been advised to disclose anything, but of course will do if asked.

I have run my question past my agency and they think that they will do a criminal record check, check I have lived in the UK the last 7 years and maybe do a credit check.

I do not think that cautions show up on criminal record checks, or am I wrong? Also, I am currently in an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) with my creditors. I do not think they would hold this against me should they run a credit check, would they?

Thanks for your help.

Cautions (and convictions) only show up for recordable offences: this means offences which potentially carry a prison sentence.

I have had a look at the BRD website, and it suggests that any employer can ask for a basic dislcosure from them, and that this only details unspent convictions.

If an employer works with children or vunerable adults, then they can ask for a standard disclosure which details all unspent and spent convictions as well as cautions.

The job I am in the process of hopefully securing is not with children or vunerable adults, so I assume all the employer can obtain is a basic disclosure on which my caution will not be recorded.

Can anyone say if this rings true?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by smudger51

I,m just applying for a job and they to are going to do a check on me.As far as i,m aware it,s all your criminal records including live and spent records.They send your prospective employer one copy and another copy to you.

That's a CRB check

Yes it is, I meant to say CRB, God knows why I typed BRD!?

Are there any other types of criminal record check then!?

Originally Posted by james.edward.dobson

I do not think that cautions show up on criminal record checks, or am I wrong?

Yes, you're wrong

Also, I am currently in an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) with my creditors. I do not think they would hold this against me should they run a credit check, would they?

It would depend on what they are looking for. An IVA is hardly an advertisement of creditworthiness is it?

Can you not tell us more about what the job is?

So how am I wrong? As I said above, the CRB basic disclosure available to all employees does NOT show cautions. Are there any other types of criminal record check?

True, being in an IVA does not show creditworthiness, but what does that have to do with being suitable for a job?