Work experience verification and reference check

How do you know whether the information in a CV is accurate? Through work experience verification and reference checks, you can confirm a candidate’s employment history and ensure that their experience and qualifications are accurate.

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Verify the candidate’s CV with reference checks

Reference checks help you confirm that the information about a candidate’s employment history is accurate. By verifying previous employment, you get a clearer picture of the candidate’s background and greater confidence before making a recruitment decision.

This is how we verify the candidate’s employment history:

Candidate provides one or more referees

The candidate provides contact details for referees who can confirm their previous employment history. The employer decides how many referees should be contacted and how far back in time the references should cover.

Contact details are verified

To ensure a reliable verification process, only business email addresses are accepted. Referees are never contacted via personal email addresses, such as Gmail or Hotmail, or via mobile phone numbers.

The referee accesses DISA’s platform

The referee receives a secure link to DISA’s platform, where employment information is verified through a digital questionnaire.

Employment details are confirmed

The questionnaire is used to verify employment information, such as employer, job title and employment period. The questions can be tailored to your organisation’s requirements and may be supplemented with a statement of integrity completed by the candidate.

The results are included in the screening report

Once the responses have been submitted, the results are compiled and included in the screening report.

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The importance of verifying employment history

DISA surveyed 1,500 people in the Netherlands to better understand how information is presented in CVs. The results show that inaccuracies and exaggerations are more common than many employers realise:

Employment history (36%)
Previous roles, responsibilities or work experience may be exaggerated or inaccurately represented.
Skills and qualifications (33 %)
Technical skills, certifications and language abilities are often presented as more extensive than they actually are.
Length of previous employment (21 %)
Employment periods may be adjusted to conceal short-term positions or gaps in employment.
Previous employers (12 %)
Information about previous employers may be inaccurate or misleading.

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Checks are carried out directly with a current employee or the HR department

If the nominated referee is no longer employed by the organisation, the candidate will be asked to provide contact details for the company’s HR department or another authorised representative to verify the employment.

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Why choose DISA for employment verification?

Flexible verification tailored to your needs

You decide how the verification should be carried out. Choose how many referees should be contacted, how far back the verification should go, and which employment details should be verified.

Secure and digital verification process

All reference checks are conducted through DISA’s GDPR-compliant platform. To ensure reliable verification, only business email addresses are accepted for referees, and all communication is digital and traceable.

International employment verification

DISA has extensive experience verifying employment history both in Sweden and internationally. Whether a candidate has worked locally or abroad, employment details can be verified as part of the screening process.

You decide who to hire, DISA verifies the facts

A reference check cannot determine who you should hire. A candidate’s skills, potential and suitability for the role are best assessed by the employer. DISA’s role is to verify factual information about the candidate’s employment history.

This gives you greater confidence that the information on which you base your recruitment decision is accurate.

Examples of employment information that can be verified:

Employer
Job title and role
Employment period
Other factual information relevant to the position

The content and scope of the verification can be tailored to your organisation’s requirements and preferences.

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Foundations of background screening

Would you like to deepen your understanding of background screening? Our white paper provides an introduction to why background checks are conducted, what they can include, and how they can contribute to more confident hiring decisions.

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What our clients say

“Working with DISA internationally helps to screen every candidate via the same way. The system is easy to use and due to the fact that you can create different screening profiles per country, it is easy to adapt to local rules and regulations (for example: data storage in the EER).”

“Even in this global pandemic, the Page Group wants to guarantee that the processing of personal data of candidates is securely done now that some of our employees are working from home.”

Ilze Lamers
HR Director Northern Europe
Michael Page Group

“It is very important for us to employ people with integrity. We perform several background checks because we work in financial services, and also to give us peace of mind. That’s why we use DISA. They make the process of eliminating risk easy and smooth.”

Tobias Lindh
Managing Director Nordics & Baltics
Adyen

“By using DISA’s digital solution for background checks, we know that clients’ and applicants’ personal data is always safe and secure. Boardtalk also has very careful procedures when it comes to data processing. We ensure that sensitive information is not passed back and forth unless absolutely necessary. For example, we only inform our clients if DISA finds irregularities in the results when we have received and analysed the applicants’ verification reports.”

Mats Holmberg
Partner & Finance
Boardtalk

“DISA's system for background checks is very easy to use. We can use the system on our phone, tablet, or laptop, which gives us the possibility to request and monitor screenings everywhere. With DISA, we help our end clients minimise the risks by hiring the right people.”

"We use DISA for our background checks and find the process smooth and reliable. It saves us time and gives us confidence in our delivery to clients."