Verification Services

Employee background screening:

Helping you hire the right people

In today’s buoyant market, it may be tempting to fill Our services

positions with the first applicant who meets your job
requirements. However, taking time to find the right KPMG in India’s Verification Services can help you screen
person for the job not only helps you increase productivity prospective employees across levels in a flexible, timely
but also mitigates risk associated with negligent hiring in and cost-effective manner through various categories of
the event of underperformance, fraud or crime committed checks to suit the compliance needs of your organisation.
by an employee. Such insentiences can cause a serious Our services include:
harm to the brand and reputation of an organisation. Pre-employment background checks: Validation of
As concerns about data security gain importance, key credentials of a candidate for employment such as;
organisations are increasingly undertaking background academic qualification, previous employment records,
screening of their prospective employees, vendors and reference checks, criminal record checks, database checks,
strategic partners. As per KPMG International’s Global substance abuse screening, etc.
profiles of the fraudster report 2016, Indian fraudsters are Senior management due diligence: Discreet, detailed
younger in age with 32 per cent belonging to the 26 to 35 reference checks, gathering information and perception
age group. This also collaborates with the findings on CV about the candidate through market intelligence.
fraud with maximum number of resume discrepancies
belonging to this age group.

Discrepancy Trends

over of total checks

86% Employment
13% verified are flagged
as discrepancy
(mismatch of
discrepancy
example fake
information provided documents,
Chances of Chances of
by candidates as suspicious
discrepancy in identifying
confirmed from companies
education and discrepancy in
source of information criminal records the age group
Adverse findings for males is three of 18 to 25 for
Education 1% found through times higher as females is twice
5% discrepancy example Global regulatory compared to that as compared to
fake institute/ and compliance of females males
documents, course checks.
not completed
Address
6% discrepancy
2% Criminal findings are
identified based on example fictitious
extensive in-house research address, candidate
and established criminal not residing at
background check process stated address

Source: KPMG in India’s analysis, 2016

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Our Value Proposition

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Dedicated resources and Dedicated facility: Technology-backed Compliance with the
vast experience: We have a dedicated solutions: laws of the land:
Our dedicated team of over 500-seater centralised Our processes and We review regional and
450 resources conduct operations hub located technology allow smooth country laws/regulations to
over 60,000 checks per in Pune to undertake and streamlined services, determine which screening
month covering more background checks. This quality deliverables and products should be offered
than 200 countries and facility is ISO 27001:2013 convenience as well as in order to keep our client’s
territories across the globe. reduced risks to our clients. business compliant.
Standard Institution. Our online application We also have stringent
tool supports real time processes on internal risk
viewing of case status and compliance which in
and downloading the turn protects clients from
reports, thus helping in any potential violations
reducing operating and especially Foreign Corrupt
administrative costs across Practices Act, U.K. Bribery
locations and geographies. Act and Indian Prevention
of Corruption Act violations

Industry recognition Our other Forensic solutions for Human

Resources
• Awarded ’Best Background screening service provider’
by World HRD Congress, February 2016 • Exit interviews: Detailed interviews of exiting
• Awarded ‘Star Partner Award’ for three consecutive
for separation which is presented using data analytics
years in 2014, 2015 and 2016 by Top IT company
providing trends and highlighting areas of concern for the
• Empanelled with NSR (National Skills Registry) under a HR team
NASSCOM initiative
• Ethics helpline: Independent whistle-blower service
with multilingual support, recording candid employee
feedback, insights and concerns
•
Detailed background checks on third parties including
due diligence on key promoters and their credentials,

market references, litigations and deep public domain

due diligence.

KPMG in India contacts:

Mritunjay Kapur Akhilesh Tuteja Mohit Bahl Maneesha Garg
Partner and National Head Partner and Head Partner and Head Partner
Strategy and Markets Risk Consulting Forensic Services Forensic Services
Leader - Technology, Media and T: +91 124 307 4800 T: +91 124 307 4703 T: +91 120 3868 501
Telecom E: atuteja@kpmg.com
T: +91 124 307 4797 E: mbahl@kpmg.com E: maneesha@kpmg.com
E: mritunjay@kpmg.com

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