News

• Older jobseekers ‘more likely to lie on CVs’
  Jobnewswire.com, 09th October 2008
• Downturn forces IT contractors to rethink
  Contractor UK, 08th October 2008
• Popularity of personnel screening ‘increasing’
  Witan Jardine, 07th October 2008
• Powerchex sponsors Global Economic Forum 2008
  Press Release, 02nd October 2008
• Powerchex to participate in the CITI Small Business Partnership Programme
  Press Release, 30th September 2008
• Most Enterprising Student for South of England
  Press Release - 'Most Enterprising Student for the South of England' title awarded to undergraduate working at Powerchex, 22nd September 2008
• Powerchex launches new corporate website
  Press Release, 19th September 2008
• Powerchex awarded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
  Press Release, 18th September 2008
• The Week In Work
  The Times, 24th July 2008
• Lying on CVs is on the increase
  Here Is the City, 24th July 2008
• A degree of creativity on CVs
  The Financial Times, 21st July 2008
• Some Students “tell more CV lies”
  BBC News, 21st July 2008
• Grads from top-ranked universities less likely to lie on CVs
  If you graduated from one of the nation's top 20 universitites, you are less likely to lie on your CV to get a good job, 18th July 2008
• How often do the British lie on their CV
  Brits lie more on job applications than any other nationality, 17th July 2008
• Powerchex addresses the Annual Conference of the Fraud Advisory Panel
  Press Release, 18th June 2008
• Training & Competence Revisited
  Press Release, 16th June 2008
• Integrity. At what price?
  Press Release, 16th June 2008
• Powerchex joins UK Chapter of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS)
  12th May 2008
• Docklands business makes UK Top 100 - Powerchex ranks No 8 in the list of the UK Top 100 new busines
  25th April 2008
• City pre-employment screening firm Powerchex passes CRB assurance audit with flying colours
  Press Release, 23rd April 2008
• Docklands Company Scores Hat-trick
  Press Release, 27th November 2007
• Powerchex’s MD named Business Person of the Year
  Press Release, 23rd November 2007
• Powerchex wins NatWest Service Business of the Year Award
  Press Release, 01st November 2007
• Powerchex screens its way to success
  Business Link, 01st October 2007
• Powerchex, home to the most enterprising student in the UK
  Press Release, 17th September 2007
• Powerchex declared National Finalist in the NatWest Service Business of the Year Awards
  Press Release, 24th August 2007
• Honesty in the City? well just on CVs
  The Guardian, 04th August 2007
• Drop in financial job applicant frauds
  Director of Finance, 02nd August 2007
• The Powerchex Pre-employment Screening Survey 2007
  Complete Survey, 01st July 2007
• Who is Watching the Temps?
  Press Release, 01st July 2007
• Financial Services Industry Cleans Up its Act
  Press Release, 01st July 2007
• Fit & Proper (October 2006)
  Compliance Monitor, pg 22, 01st October 2006
• Research reveals 1 in 4 submit false information when applying for financial services jobs
  OnRec.com, 01st September 2006
• Dragons Den casualty goes on to become one of UK’s top ten new business stars in National Awards
  Press Release, 01st August 2006
• Top London businesses honoured in HSBC Start-up Stars Awards
  Press Release, 01st July 2006
• Experts warn of fraud and legal problems with ID cards (February 1, 2006)
  Personnel Today, 01st February 2006
• Beware the pitfalls of a dodgy reference (October 21, 2005)
  Recruiter, 21st October 2005
• Local winners STEP up at UEL enterprise awards ceremony (September 9, 2005)
  09th September 2005
• Truth or Fiction (August 18, 2005)
  Management Issues, 18th August 2005
• Firms ’sloppy at vetting staff’ (August 16, 2005)
  Business Europe.com, 16th August 2005
• Research reveals high failure rate of in house pre-employment vetting (August 2005)
  complete survey, 01st August 2005
• Identity Crisis (July 12, 2005)
  Recruiter, 12th July 2005
• How to give and receive employment references (July 12, 2005)
  HR Zone, 12th July 2005
• Powerchex exploits move towards candidate vetting (July 12, 2005)
  Recruiter, 12th July 2005
• How to get a reference of preference (June 13,2005)
  Recruiter, 13th June 2005

“Companies need to recruit and train people in whom they have confidence and whom they can trust. It is confidence and trust that are real safeguards against fraud and disaster, and they can only be fostered and instilled on a sound ethical basis”

Sir Adrian Cadbury, Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, 2002

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