Employment identity checking

Employment Identity Checking should be the first step in any background check. Employment Identity Check will:

• Provide confidence that the candidate you are dealing with is who they say they are
• Ensure all subsequent reference checks are viable
• Check the Electoral Roll
• Verify a candidate's current and up to two previous addresses
• Use Authenticate to provide a score to indicate Experian's degree of confidence in an individual's identity.

Employment identity authentication

Candidate identity checks are essential to ensure that a candidate is who they say they are. Many background checks are rendered ineffective if a candidate's basic identity details are incorrect. For example, a candidate can avoid a criminal records check by omitting addresses or providing false addresses or incomplete contact details, such as alias information (e.g., maiden names). 

Experian — a leading supplier of identity authentication solutions for employment

As a global market leader, Experian processes millions of identity checks annually and have a proven track record of electronically authenticating the identity of individuals.

Our employment identity authentication solutions use an electronic, risk-based approach to validate and verify customers. An individual's biographical data is compared against our authoritative data sources. Each individual's data is then measured in three dimensions — the breadth, depth and quality. We look at the number of electronic records it can be matched against, how far back in time they go and the processes that were in place when the records were created. 

ID Authentication checks — built into our services

These candidate identity checking solutions are built into our background checking services and are the basis of all the checks we make to help in recruitment decisions. We can electronically establish a degree of confidence in a person's identity and confirm that the person is who they say they are. 

View our range of identity authentication checks»