Category Archives: Employment Screening

A man who passed himself off as an aristocrat to steal over £115k from antiques dealer HW Harvey has been jailed.

His employer was approached by “His Serene Highness Prince Oliver von Mecklenburg-Schwerin” who had an “impeccable CV” including work at Blenheim Palace.

A report by Academies Week give details of a teacher being banned from the classroom after he lied about his GCSE grades and past experience when he applied for an internal promotion.

Matthew Brown, the former head of ICT at the independent girls’ Notre Dame School in Cobham, Surrey, was found to have lied on his CV when he applied to become head of year at the school.

According to Wales Online, more than 400 people with criminal convictions have tried to get work in Welsh schools, discovered after nearly 21,000 pre-employment checks were carried out.

They include a paedophile who applied to work in a Swansea school, despite being convicted of making child abuse images.

According to the Mail Online, US businessman Andrew Flanagan organised for friends to pose as former employers, supplying fake references, numbers and email addresses.

Flanagan claimed to have held executive positions including roles with retail chain Zara, yet had never held a post with the company.

According to a story in the Hull Daily Mail, an employee who stole £90,000 from a Hull motor parts company was spared jail after promising to pay the firm back.

Waterloo Motor Trade Ltd. offered customers a ‘no quibble’ returns policy that was exploited by David Peters, 43, by filing false returns at the firm.

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports that one in 10 small and medium-sized firms across Yorkshire have received a fraudulent reference for a potential job candidate.

“The scale of reference falsification in the region is quite surprising, but also alarming,” according to Lee Hayes from Close Brothers Invoice Finance.