• Recruitment overview
• Job description
• Person specification
• Diversity and equality
• Head hunting and poaching
• Advertising
• Applications and short listing
• Testing
• Interviewing
• Selection
• Offer of employment
• Checks
  • References
  • Health
  • Criminal
  • Vulnerable groups

• Case studies
• Resources
• Further reading

• People In Aid Code

Checks

Offers of employment should be made subject to satisfactory references and other checks.

This section concentrates on national contract team members as checks for international contract team members are normally carried out by head office.

Checks include:

• Personal and professional references
• Health
• Criminal record
• Vulnerable groups

The danger is that although checks may be specified in the offer, they are too easily forgotten – until there is a major problem and then it may be too late.