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Education and qualification Checks
Want to make sure your team has the right qualifications for the job? Zinc helps you verify educational credentials, certifications, and professional memberships across the globe so you can hire with confidence.
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Why conduct an education and qualification check?
If you’re in a highly skilled, regulated field like healthcare, finance, or education, you need to know that your candidates have the right credentials. Zinc’s qualification checks validate every candidate’s knowledge and certifications, and help your hiring process move faster.
“Zinc has streamlined our pre-employment checks massively. Knowing that the platform can check documents to a higher standard than a human can gives us great peace of mind when hiring new team members to work with our children!”
Claire Jackson
Compliance Co-ordinator
Key benefits of Zinc’s qualification checks
Reduce risk
Thorough, reliable education checks
Every qualification is checked at the source, whether it’s academic, professional, or a membership, giving you full peace of mind that every credential is genuine and accurate.
Fast-track hiring
Fast, automated results
Skip the slow, manual chasing. Zinc delivers instant certificate verification whenever possible and can package multiple checks together to save your team weeks, making onboarding quicker and hassle-free.
Worldwide credentials
Global coverage
Zinc verifies candidate credentials worldwide, helping you maintain high standards and compliance for every role.
How Zinc’s qualification and education background checks work
Zinc delivers global education and qualification checks quickly and seamlessly:
Candidates enter their education or qualification details.
Zinc verifies credentials through automated databases, machine learning, or direct outreach to institutions.
Results arrive within hours or days, with any discrepancies clearly flagged for review.
Qualification checks FAQs
Find answers to common questions about our education checks and processes.
What level of qualifications can companies check with Zinc?
Qualification checks with Zinc confirm an applicant's academic or professional memberships or certifications. We can verify high school degrees, any form of higher education and professional qualifications.
What is the process of a qualification check?
The process for completing a qualification check on Zinc is as follows:
- Choose any number of academic or professional qualifications to verify.
- Request the checks from your Zinc account or ATS.
- Zinc will request verification of the qualifications from the relevant institutions.
- A documentation review process will occur.
- After completing the verification process, Zinc will report its findings on the candidate report.
How does your software handle data privacy and comply with relevant regulations when conducting qualification background 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.
How does Zinc verify an applicant's educational qualifications?
Our online employment screening software verifies an applicant's qualifications with education verification databases or by directly contacting the institutions attended, confirming degrees, certifications, and other relevant details.
How user-friendly is your software for both the recruiter and the candidate? Are there tutorials or customer support options available?
At Zinc, a seamless experience is at the heart of everything we do. From an intuitive, mobile-first platform for candidates to live chat and email support, we’re always here to help.
Learn more about how Zinc supports a great candidate experience here.
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