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Background Check Myths Busted: The Truth About Employee Screening
| It’s like hiring a Private Investigator. | Verity’s services are fully digital, professional, and compliant, and are not surveillance-based. People imagine trench coats, binoculars, and stalking—that’s totally false. |
| Only large corporations or MNCs can afford it. | We serve SMEs across Malaysia and Southeast Asia with flexible, affordable packages. SMEs need it more—fraud risk doesn’t discriminate by company size. |
| It’s only done for C-level or high-ranking hires. | Background checks are recommended at all levels—fraud isn’t limited to the C-suite. Even junior hires can cause major damage to a company by committing fraud, theft or misconduct. |
| Background checks are expensive. | Not true. VERISafe screening starts from just RMXX per check, offering a high ROI at a low cost! |
| It takes weeks or months to get results. | VERISafe delivers instant results, while Verity BGC completes full background checks within a few business days. |
| You can access private details like bank accounts or marital status. | We only screen for legal, ethical, and job-relevant information. Our process is lawful, consent-based, and strictly excludes private data like bank details or assets. |
| I can just Google or check the candidate’s social media instead. | Informal online searches are not compliance tools. We provide accurate, legally-sound verification from validated sources. |
| Screening only applies before hiring. | Post-hire screening is a common and crucial practice for contractors, candidates up for promotion, and employees moving into sensitive roles. |
| If someone looks professional or gives a good interview, they’re trustworthy. | We verify what resumes and interviews can’t, using criminal, blacklist, and red flag databases. Appearances deceive. 1 in 6 candidates misrepresent critical info on CVs. |
| If there’s a problem, I’ll deal with it later. | Waiting can be costly. Verity helps prevent bad hires before damage is done. Putting off a problem could mean legal trouble, internal loss, or reputational damage. |
| Only regulated industries should conduct screening. | Every business, especially SMEs, is exposed to financial, operational, and data-related risks. Verity protects you regardless of your industry. |
| All background checks are the same. | VERISafe and Verity BGC are built on curated, high-quality databases—like criminal, blacklist, and sanctions lists—not cheap data dumps that miss critical red flags. |
| It’s an invasion of privacy. | All our processes are fully compliant with the PDPA and international standards, ensuring privacy is always respected. |
| A signed declaration is enough. | A signed declaration isn’t enough. We provide real verification to ensure accuracy and prevent fraud—because verification is protection, not suspicion. |
| We’ve never had an issue before, so we don’t need it now. | Just because you haven’t had a problem yet doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Prevention is not only smarter than regret—it’s far cheaper than damage control. |
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