This CPD Certified Fraud Awareness in Pre-Employment Screening Course gives you the essential insight needed to detect, prevent and respond to fraudulent behaviour during recruitment. Designed for HR, compliance and vetting professionals, the course explains how fraudsters construct misleading applications, falsify identity evidence and exploit weak verification processes. Learn how to spot red flags early, strengthen your screening approach and avoid costly hiring mistakes.
✅ Course duration: 1–2 hours | ✅ CPD Points Awarded: 1 Point
• Introduction to fraud risks in recruitment and pre-employment screening
• Learn how fraudsters manipulate identity, history and documentation
• Understand common deception patterns and application inconsistencies
• Ideal for HR, compliance, recruitment and safeguarding teams
• How fraudulent applications are created and why they succeed
• How to identify false information, red flags and suspicious patterns
• How to carry out deeper checks to validate identity and history
• How to close verification gaps that allow fraud to go undetected
• How to build a more resilient, fraud-resistant screening process
• Reduces risk of hiring unsuitable or deceptive candidates
• Strengthens verification, compliance and safeguarding processes
• Improves recruitment accuracy and decision-making
• Helps prevent reputational, financial and operational harm
• Suitable for all sectors that rely on accurate pre-employment checks
Fraud is increasingly common as applicants use digital tools to manipulate documents, histories and identity information. Strong screening is essential.
Yes. You will learn key indicators of deception, suspicious patterns and practical ways to investigate inconsistencies.
Absolutely. The course explains fraud risks in clear, accessible terms suitable for HR, compliance and recruitment teams.
Yes. It covers identity manipulation, forged documents, false credentials and misleading claims that commonly appear in applications.
Yes. You will receive a CPD certified certificate awarding 1 CPD Point upon completion.
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Our courses are independently accredited and your certificates are accepted for audits and CPD records. You recieve your CPD Certified Certificate of completion once the course is fully completed
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Expert-Created Course by Graham and Vivianne Johnson