Fast, simple background checks

Verify a candidate's address history globally against credit agencies, national postal records and electoral lists. Often the first step before more targeted checks such as criminal record screening.

Monitor thousands of news sources, trade journals and local, regional and national newspapers in real time. Results are categorised by risk type, covering accusations, arrests, trials and exonerations.

Zinc's Cifas Insider Threat Database (ITD) check protects your organisation from fraud, dishonest actions and false employment applications. Built for financial institutions making senior hires.

Access a candidate's financial history from location-specific sources worldwide: credit bureaus, banks, insolvency records, tax offices and local courts. Surfaces outstanding debts and court summons.

Request criminal record checks globally, directly from your ATS. Candidates select the countries they've lived in, and Zinc handles the specific consent requirements of each one.

Manual CV reviews take time that your team doesn’t have. Zinc’s automated process matches CV details with references and employment verifications to give you peace of mind and stay confident in your hiring process.

Run any level of DBS check without the guesswork. Zinc layers identity and address checks into one automated flow, returning basic checks in hours and rechecking eligible candidates for free.

Check whether a candidate holds conflicts of interest or past disqualifications from directorial duties. Essential due diligence for leadership hires, protecting your reputation and avoiding legal risk.

Zinc verifies certificates and qualifications directly with the awarding institution, anywhere in the world. Verify a single qualification or several, academic or professional.

Instantly verify your candidate's employment history with our HMRC integration and send regulatory reference requests.

Screen candidates for adverse financial and regulatory misconduct globally, sourced from law enforcement and regulatory monitored lists including terrorism, money laundering and most wanted.

Instantly verify financial services register (FSR) with Zinc’s purpose-built, fully automated check for UK financial services teams.

Verify right to work status in minutes, wherever you hire. Zinc supports every major UK route plus global document pathways, with digital identity verification to keep you clear of Home Office fines.

Zinc screens a candidate's full name and date of birth against global lists including the UK Home Office watchlist and US OFAC, cross-checking public records for an added layer of security.

Candidates provide a selfie photo which is matched against their identity document for validation. Identity checks are often used alongside other verification checks, such as address, criminal and right to work checks.

Identify candidates who've held positions of political significance that could leave them and your company vulnerable to outside influence and financial crime.

Customisable employment and character reference checks run straight from your ATS. Candidates add referees at any time, track progress themselves and keep their results once complete.

Self certification checks allows you to collect any type of information from candidates with ease. This check is popular among recruiters collecting longer forms, such as I9 or SMCR.

Effortlessly run compliant checks across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn TikTok, X (formerly twitter), Reddit and Pinterest.