Global Capabilities

Background screening services are typically required by companies with global operations, in-country organisations employing local nationals, as well as multinational organisations which employ variouscandidates from around the world.

As a whole, cross-border qualifications are more likely to be fake, altered or all together forged. MIE’s data suggests that risk indicators on international qualifications (including those from Africa) haveincreased from 40% in 2015 to 42% in 2016.

There is a greater propensity for qualification fraud with foreign candidates or in countries where Background Screening is not yet common practice as they believe that their credentials will not - or cannot - be checked or verified.

As a trusted and experienced vetting provider for many of our own, as well as other continents’, largest corporates, MIE successfully navigates across the globe, leveraging our various in-country partnerships and background screening expertise.

Africa

In an African context, the lack of data availability has long been a concern which MIE have had to learn to overcome, and we have successfully done so through building relationships and fostering incountry partnerships. Amongst many other factors, this has allowed us to become the powerhouse of preemployment screening on the continent.

MIE’s African vetting services include:

• Credit checks
• Criminal checks
• Qualification verification
• Drivers licence checks
• Employment reference verification
• Media search
• World checks

Background screening challenges in Africa

Red tape related to the availability of data presents various challenges when conducting background checks in Africa.

MIE’s service offering may, in some instances, be subject to a particular country’s unique credit, labour, data privacy and freedom of information legislations. Of course, this presents a challenge for businesses which are required to ensure the legality of their incountry recruitment practices.

Global and International

MIE’s Africa and Global capability covers an extensive range of background screening checks available on a price-on-application basis.