Employee Credit Checks

Request globally compliant candidate credit checks directly from your ATS and make more reliable hiring decisions.

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Why conduct an employee credit check?

For highly regulated industries like finance and insurance, it’s often necessary to conduct a credit judgement and litigation check on potential hires. Employee credit checks help businesses make informed hiring decisions and provide a comprehensive, future-proof solution to compliance with industry regulations.

"Everything is going really well as always, me and the team absolutely love Zinc. It has made our process and lives so much easier!"

Kaylee Sita

People and Talent Associate

Build reliability and assurance

In-depth data for global compliance

Zinc’s platform provides global coverage for candidates of any background. Return results from 143 countries and territories from one check package and reduce the risk of costly hiring mistakes.

Delightful candidate experience

Easy to fill in and complete

Pre-screening is the first impression many candidates will get of your company. With Zinc, the process is transparent, simple, and non-invasive. Candidates can fill in the check form on any device and save time on applications, building a robust image for your business.

How it works

Zinc’s credit check process is efficient for candidates and recruiters alike, helping free up time to focus on other projects. Here’s an overview of the process:

Candidates provide their current address, date of birth, and consent.

Zinc verifies current and previous addresses connected to the candidate within a given timeframe.

Results are returned, including a location-dependent selection of credit history, CCJs, IVAs, bankruptcies, Financial Public Searches or Bad Payment History from local sources.

Explore our features

Automated checks

Simple and secure credit checks, helping you make safer hiring decisions.

ATS integrations

Integrate our checks into your ATS or HRIS.

Global coverage

Zinc handles global complexity, checking your candidate's wherever they work.

Tailored packages

Curate a checking package for specific countries or regulation. Or have one globally consistent range of checks.

Simple and secure

Simple and secure checks, helping you make safer hiring decisions.

Elevated experiences

Custom brand your candidate's flows and choose light or dark mode. Candidate's can easily submit checks from any device.

Compliant

Fully compliant with Global & EU law.
Tier 1 registered with the ICO.

Integrations

Direct ATS integrations. Get in touch and we'll set you up for free.

Support

Instant live chat support from the Zinc team around the clock.

Robust

Robust service that's relied upon by regulated businesses globally.

FAQs

Find answers to common questions about our employee credit checks and processes.

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How does your software handle data privacy and comply with relevant regulations when conducting checks?

Our employee background check software handles data privacy with utmost care, complying with relevant regulations, including GDPR and other data protection laws. It returns results from a location-sensitive and fully compliant range of sources to give you complete peace of mind.

Loved by the customers and candidates

“I can’t fault Zinc really, for me it’s been a seamless process even with changing the integrations from Workable to Greenhouse it’s been easy. As a team when it comes to the process we don’t even have to think about it really, which is a good thing.”

Philip Stephens

People Operations Specialist

“Zinc is coming up with new ways to improve the experience such as allowing the HMRC check to be completed alongside regulatory references, a game changer when ensuring a candidate's work history is accounted for. All in all, a great experience so far!”

Claire Jackson

Compliance Coordinator

“The Zinc team comes with ideas that brings it to the next level. I really appreciate that there is a willingness to develop and make changes. It's quick and it just happens. It's so difficult to find other partners that have that have that same mindset. For me that's the most important thing that you actually want to hear what we're saying and adapt to our ways of thinking.”

Marlen Gfrörer

Staff Onboarding

“I needed something that I could rely on to do thorough background checks. You can't cut corners on recruitment in education. If you can't do the safeguarding at recruitment, then you're letting unsafe people into the organisation. I needed something that I could depend on, and I’m 100% confident Zinc is that.”

Alex Pazik

Safeguarding Manager

“We have been using Zinc for nearly 2 years now and it has made a world of difference with our onboarding. Zinc saves us a huge amount of time, takes the admin off our team along with having all the references in one place. We can click a button and everything is done for us, we will never go back to manual reference checking”

Craig McElroy

Talent Acquisition Manager

“Being FCA regulated we have no room for error with our checks. Zinc is our go-to for DBS & RTW checks with lightning fast turn-around times, zero admin, and maintaining a best in class candidate experience”

Smitha Sanjeev

People Operations

“Zinc is brilliant! It takes a big burden off us by handling reference follow-ups and chasing. Plus, the integration with PinPoint works great! It’s simple and easy to use for new hires and employers alike, and the chat is really useful too. Being 100% compliant with our client’s background verification requirements gives me peace of mind and keeps us feeling on top of our game!”

Swetha Sundaram

Head of HR