Consulting for the screening process
Does your organisation need support in setting up an employment screening process?
Setting up a compliant screening process involves many considerations. DISA supports you throughout this complex journey, ensuring your organisation has an effective and fully compliant employment screening process from day one.
Read on to discover how we can assist you.
How does our consulting work?
- Risk Analysis: We assess your current situation to identify which roles carry risk, making screening necessary.
- Process Design: We help clarify which screening packages are appropriate for different roles, ensuring you only screen what’s essential.
- Legal & Regulatory Compliance: We explain the legal framework for data processing, review your process against relevant laws, and provide tailored advice.
- Integration: Screening touches multiple areas of your organisation. We assist with integrating the process into your existing workflows, including recruitment software, applications, promotions, and more.
- Communication: Through training and guidance, we help your team understand the screening process, including providing relevant documents and informational materials.
What does the process look like?
- Analysis: We start with an intake and baseline assessment to understand your current process.
- Concept development: Designing a tailored process, including the legal framework and risk profiles.
- Implementation support: Assistance with execution, internal alignment, and technical integration.
- Workshops and training: For HR, security, and management teams, focusing on practical application and compliance.
- Evaluation and optimisation: Regular feedback and adjustments to ensure ongoing effectiveness.
Consulting
Once a company decides to move forward with pre-employment screening, the next question is often: How can we design a practical and legally compliant screening process?
This is exactly where our expertise and many years of experience come in. We support you every step of the way: from the initial discussions to full implementation. Defining clear responsibilities and involving all relevant stakeholders early on (such as corporate security, recruitment, labor law, data protection, compliance, and the works council) are key to establishing an effective and successful process.
Training
It’s important that all employment screening checks are carried out the right way. The goal is to provide employees with substantive training. Our tailored training programme covers every key aspect of the screening process, including:
- Testing techniques, tools and instruments and how to carry out certain checks
- Geopolitical specialisation: Applicants with ties to countries identified by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. See here for a list of countries: List of countries1 within the meaning of Section 13 (1) No. 17 SÜG
- Best practices of external and internal communication around employment screening
- Fundamentals of data protection and legal compliance
Many companies already use sanctions lists or request ID documents, references, etc. Our training goes far beyond these basics.
We provide your employees with the knowledge and confidence to perform professional pre-employment screening at the highest level.
Workshop
This workshop is designed to collaboratively establish the foundation and direction for the company’s pre-employment screening process. It ensures that all relevant departments are informed about what is happening and provides an opportunity to address any questions.
Our consultants introduce the topic, explain the context and processes and facilitate dialogue between departments.
Why companies value our workshop:
- Intensive kick off for the pre-employment screening project
- Exchange between all stakeholders of the process that would otherwise not take place in person
- Faster review and alignment on screening options and processes. Compared to discussion by email or in occasional meetings
- Informal, open setting in which questions can be asked and details clarified
- Clear, actionable guidance for further process development
- In-person collaboration that builds trust and strengthens internal cooperation
All participants receive a summary report with the topics developed and a list of the next steps. This sets personal and company tasks, as well as providing a clear direction for the further process.
One workshop is included in our consulting package, but workshops can also be booked separately.
Why DISA?
- Support: Our dedicated support team is available five days a week to answer your questions.
- Compliance: Meet internal and external compliance standards effortlessly. Our screening solutions help you demonstrate accountability and due diligence to regulators, clients, and stakeholders.
- Experience and expertise: DISA is conducting over 17 million screenings annually for more than 55,000 organisations across various sectors.
- Tailored advice: With years of experience in personnel screening, DISA provides customised advice to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
Want to learn more about how you can safeguard your organisation and how we can support you?