Use this template to outline your guidelines for investigating your job candidates’ backgrounds as part of your hiring process.
Disclaimer ↓
Please bear in mind that these templates intend to provide you with the foundations of your organisation's recruitment policies, but may not consider local laws and regulations.
Before publishing this document, we strongly advise that you ensure the content aligns with the local laws and regulations that impact your organisation.
Our employee background check policy refers to our guidelines for investigating our job candidates’ backgrounds as part of our hiring process. Background checks help us:
Get insight into candidates’ backgrounds.
Ensure we hire reliable employees.
Verify candidates’ information for truthfulness and accuracy.
Screen candidates convicted of serious criminal behaviour.
This employee background check policy applies to candidates who go through [your company]’s hiring process. It may also apply to internal candidates who are being considered for a promotion or transfer.
💡 Tips ↓
We have highlighted points to be updated and references to key business documents you should link to using [square brackets] and orange text.
If you don't have these documents, you should work with your HR team to create them or delegate their creation to your department leads.
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