A practical UK focused course that teaches you to screen candidates thoroughly, verify information correctly, and make confident hiring decisions you can defend.
"We built this course because we've seen too many organisations learn screening the hard way, after a bad hire, a failed audit, or a preventable incident. After nearly 20 years conducting thousands of employment checks, we know what a proper screening process looks like and where most go wrong. This course gives you the structured approach, practical methods, and real world insight to screen every candidate consistently and confidently."
Expert Built Pre-Employment Screening Mastery
Developed by Graham and Vivianne Johnson, industry leading screening experts with nearly 20 years' experience verifying candidates across multiple sectors. This CPD certified course teaches you to conduct thorough, compliant pre-employment screening that reduces hiring risk and creates defensible recruitment decisions.
Master the complete screening framework: application verification, identity checks, employment history confirmation, reference collection, qualification verification, gap analysis, and proportionate risk assessment. Learn how to structure your screening process, collect the right evidence, and document decisions that will stand up to scrutiny.
Each lesson includes real world scenarios from the Johnsons' extensive experience, teaching you what to check, why it matters, and how to handle the situations that catch others out.
Perfect for HR professionals, recruiters, line managers, compliance officers, and anyone responsible for hiring decisions in their organisation.
Why Choose This Course:
✓ Created by screening practitioners with nearly 20 years of hands on experience.
✓ Learn structured methods you can apply to any role or sector immediately.
✓ Understand what to check and why, not just tick box procedures.
✓ Gain confidence to handle gaps, discrepancies, and difficult situations.
✓ Build a screening process that protects your organisation and your decisions.
Screen thoroughly. Hire confidently. Protect your organisation.
Duration: 2-3 hours.
CPD Award: 2 Professional Development Hours.
Why We Built This Course
We created this course because most pre-employment screening training focuses on what checks to do, not how to do them properly when things get complicated.
From 2006 to 2024, we ran our own screening businesses and conducted thousands of employment verifications across multiple sectors. We dealt with candidates who fabricated job titles, employers who refused to respond, references that didn't add up, and gaps that needed careful investigation. We learned what a robust screening process actually requires.
What Makes This Different
You'll learn how to verify employment when companies have closed or merged. What to do when references contradict application details. How to investigate gaps without making assumptions. When to escalate concerns and how to document your reasoning for future scrutiny.
Every lesson comes from real scenarios we've personally handled, the difficult situations where standard checklists don't give you the answer. You'll gain practical methods that work in the real world, not just theory.
This isn't written by trainers who've read about screening. It's built by us, practitioners who've conducted thousands of checks and know what actually works. CPD certified, UKRLP registered. Real screening expertise, not theory.
Our courses are independently accredited by a recognised CPD body so every completed module converts into verifiable CPD hours you can record. Registration Number: 0006126
VH Courses is listed on the UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP), a public register that confirms our status as a legitimate training provider.
This course explains the essential screening and vetting checks used in the United Kingdom. You will learn how to verify identity, employment history, qualifications and legal status. You will also understand how to handle data safely, avoid discrimination and follow consistent best practice across the full recruitment process.
The final course summary and certificate section are the final information required to complete before being issued with your CPD Certified Certificate. In this section it explains what you have learned throughout the course and what you are now certified for.
Built for professionals responsible for hiring decisions and candidate verification in any organisation.
You manage the hiring process and need to ensure every candidate is properly screened before they start. This course gives you structured methods to verify applications, collect references, and document decisions that protect your organisation from bad hires.
You make hiring decisions but may not have formal screening training. Learn what checks matter, what red flags to watch for, and how to work with HR to ensure candidates are properly verified before you bring them onto your team.
You're accountable for recruitment standards across your organisation. This course ensures you understand what thorough screening looks like, enabling you to set expectations, review processes, and identify weaknesses before they become problems.