Verification, written down
Twenty pieces on how background verification actually runs in India. What each check confirms, what it cannot, how to scope a package against a role, and what the law asks of the employer buying it.
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If you read one of these, read this one. Everything else assumes it.
What actually happens between an offer letter and a cleared report: who is asked for consent, which record each check goes to, what comes back, and where the process stalls. Written in the order the work happens rather than the order a sales deck lists it.
12 min readRead the guideThe checks that matter change with what a role can reach, not with how senior it sounds. A method for deciding which checks a role needs, and a worked set of packages you can argue with.
8 min readRead the guideGuides & practice
How the work is done. One check, or one decision, per piece.
Consent to cleared report, in the order it happens, including the four places a case usually stalls.
12 min readReadScope against what the role can reach: money, data, customers, a client site, a signature.
8 min readReadMost flagged findings are not fraud. Telling the difference is the whole skill.
8 min readReadDates, designation and exit status. Plus the reasons a former employer will not answer, and what to do then.
8 min readReadWhy the certificate in a candidate's hand is not evidence, and what a university actually returns.
7 min readReadThree checks that sound like one. What each proves, and when to buy which.
8 min readReadThere is no single national criminal database. What that means for the search, and for a clear result.
8 min readReadFour documents making four different claims. Only one of them is an identity check.
8 min readReadThe check asked for most often and understood least. What overlapping records mean, and what they do not.
7 min readReadTurnaround is set by the slowest source in the package, not by the provider. Which sources are slow, and why.
8 min readReadThe parts candidates hate are avoidable, and most of the fixes cost nothing.
8 min readReadVendors, contractors and incoming directors carry the same exposure and rarely get the same check.
7 min readReadResearch & analysis
Longer pieces that work something out rather than explain it. The full set is on the research page.
Where mismatches come from in each check, and which of them are worth stopping a hire for.
10 min readReadA model you can run on your own numbers instead of quoting somebody else's headline figure.
8 min readReadIT, banking, retail, staffing, gig and healthcare do not share a risk, so they should not share a package.
9 min readReadSixteen questions to ask on the call, and the answers that should worry you.
9 min readReadRegulation & news
What changed, and what an employer has to do about it. Kept current on the latest news page.
Consent, notice, retention and the rights a candidate can exercise, in the language of the work.
9 min readReadThe most useful employment record in India, and the limits of reading it.
8 min readReadWhy the same check clears in a week in one state and takes a month in another.
8 min readReadThe public record that says what a CV will not, about a senior hire or an incoming director.
7 min readReadWant it answered against your own roles?
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