Helping you make informed recruitment decisions
At Verifile, we’re committed to helping ensure that every one of your employees is everything they claim to be. We understand the importance of being able to make fully informed decisions about the person you want to hire and remaining compliant with all relevant employment procedures, standards and regulations. By bringing together high-quality data and expertise in a secure environment, we’ll help you achieve that. Together, we’ll help you mitigate against recruitment risk.
Where it all began
In 2003, a driver working for Brinks Israel, the armed security providers, made off with nearly five million shekels. Waiting until his armed guard colleague left him alone, the driver, Saguy Unger, simply drove away with his cash haul. Unger’s real name was Ilan Kupperman-Segal. He had used a false identity to get the job at Brinks just two weeks earlier, masking the fact he had a criminal record. Brinks’ sophisticated
Pre-employment screening techniques, to be expected at a company where staff carry automatic weapons, had failed because the obvious first step of checking Unger’s identity had been overlooked.
An idea takes hold
Days later, also in Israel,
Eyal Ben Cohen was preparing to move to England to begin studying for an MBA at
Cranfield University, requiring him to change the address on his identity card. This seemingly simple process saw him standing in line for three hours.
The combination of the two events got Eyal thinking; the scrutiny and bureaucracy involved with a simple change of address versus the lack of attention paid to a recruitment process which allowed someone to commit armed robbery.
A business takes shape
Intrigued by this, Eyal subsequently took every opportunity while working towards his MBA to research the market for employment
screening, testing new ideas for a smoother, more efficient process. Having secured his MBA, equipped with an extensive business plan and with investors and his first client in place, Eyal set about turning theory into reality – in the shape of Verifile.
Eyal’s ambitions for Verifile had already caught the eye while at Cranfield, earning the
VCR Directory prize for the business plan most likely to succeed. He then followed that up with a prestigious
Association of Business Schools entrepreneurship award a year later as Verifile hit the ground running.
An essential part of the recruitment process
We now have a team of over 150 highly-qualified experts, always ready to question the screening data our processes generate. We guide you through complex outputs and help you make informed recruitment decisions. As a double winner of the King’s Award and a highly certified business, we hold 10 industry accreditations, including:
- Professional Association of Background Screeners
- National Security Inspectorate (NSI) Gold
- ISO Certifications: Quality Management (ISO 9001), Environmental Management (ISO 14001), Business Continuity Management (ISO 22301), and Information Security (ISO 27001)
- Investors in People
- Cyber Essentials Plus
Despite our focus on accurate, precise data and rigorous investigations, we never lose sight of this being a people business. We remember that we’re dealing with real people: candidates navigating a recruitment process that could be life-changing for them and employers eager to hire the right person.