Applicant Screening

Application fraud or the concealment of application-relevant information such as breaches of labour law against former employers, criminal records, mental illnesses and private mountains of debt have long become commonplace in everyday recruitment. To ensure that your company does not take on a rotten egg when hiring a new member of staff, Kurtz Investigations Bochum undertakes the screening of the applicant and their documents for both false and concealed information: +49 234 3075 0073.

Genuine Or Forged? True Or Invented?

Naturally every applicant wants to present themselves in a favourable light, but not everyone can score with their real references and certificates. As a workaround, tools such as Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, GIMP or Picasa are often used to improve grades on official documents (forgery of certificates) or to turn the damning “He always tried hard” in reference letters into “He was highly reliable”. As an employer you may well filter out in advance those applicants whose application documents contain gaps or cannot compete with other submissions, concentrating on the best of the best – and in the worst case on the best fraudsters. If the forgery is well executed, even experts can fail to detect it. However, through the investigations carried out by our Bochum detectives the correctness can be reliably checked.

We question the candidate’s career history, contact former employers or training institutions under a legend where appropriate and verify the authenticity of the documents submitted. In conclusion you will receive a comprehensive report from us on every applicant we have checked, allowing you to be largely certain that unpleasant surprises have been excluded. We will gladly inform you in detail about our capabilities and methods for an applicant screening. Please use our contact form for your enquiry or contact us by telephone.

Subsequent Checks After Employment Has Already Taken Place

The decision for or against a candidate is usually made only after careful consideration, but as the proverb says: good intention is not the same as good execution. It may later emerge that the new employee has no idea about their field despite excellent references. Initially the new employee may excuse themselves by referring to unfamiliar working routines or similar, but after a reasonable induction period they should be able to demonstrate their skills. If no improvement is apparent after months, alarm bells should ring. Then it is time to use the professional support of our corporate investigators in Bochum before the employee – intentionally or through lack of competence – causes greater damage to you and your company. This includes direct harm through errors as well as loss of turnover due to the departure of dissatisfied customers who notice your employee’s incompetence.

As with the preventive applicant screening described above, our IHK-certified detectives also check the curriculum vitae and references of the employee after hiring in order to uncover irregularities in the professional career or document forgeries. Upon completion of our investigations you will receive a report admissible in court so that you can assert claims for recourse against the exposed application fraudster. Request a non-binding consultation on +49 234 3075 0073 or send us an email with your enquiry to kontakt@kurtz-detektei-bochum.de.