Update on Recruitment Fraud
Update on Recruitment Fraud: Understand and mitigate growing risks
Time: 11:00 - 11:45 | FREE
When: Thursday, 30th January '25
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Protect Your Business from the Growing Risk of Recruitment Fraud
Recruitment fraud is on the rise, posing severe financial, legal, and reputational threats to businesses that fail to act. This webinar will highlight key fraud risks, outline preventative strategies and discuss effective legal implications to avoid penalties and prevent fraudulent activities.
Featuring expert input, we’ll examine:
- The real impact of recruitment fraud: financial and security risks
- Types of recruitment fraud and where your organisation might be vulnerable
- Immigration fraud: what UK employers need to be aware of
- Legal risks and consequences of recruitment fraud
- Effective fraud prevention strategies
- How your recruitment agency could be accountable and what you need to do now to close loopholes
- Real-life examples and lessons learned
Which functions will benefit from attending
- HR, RECRUITMENT & RESOURCING, TALENT, POLICY, BENEFITS, COMPENSATION, DEVELOPMENT, EMPLOYEE RELATIONS/COMMUNICATION, HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, IT & TECHNOLOGY, PAYROLL, TRAINING AND LEARNING AND RECRUITMENT.
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Introduction and welcome
Elizabeth Smith
Director of Research , Business Forums International Ltd. (BFI)
Elizabeth is director of research and a founding co-director at Business Forums International. She is responsible for all programme content and writing, and researches current areas of interest for senior HR professionals in large organisations. BFI is the UK’s leading HR risk specialist conference and training provider, delivering key and timely information to over 3,000 delegates a year both through public and in-house training courses. Before founding BFI in 1996, Elizabeth specialised in researching corporate financial programmes in Asia and the Middle East, based in Dubai. She also worked in advertising and publishing in the Middle East and London. Elizabeth was educated in the West Indies, Saudi Arabia and Belgium before reading Modern Languages at Durham University. She is currently developing an online training course for line managers to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and ways that employers can work to make their workplaces more inclusive.
Recognising and preventing recruitment fraud: essential strategies
Keith Rosser
Director , REED
Keith is a labour market expert with over 20 years’ experience. He runs Reed Screening an employment vetting business he founded in 2012 for Reed, the British family-owned recruitment business where he is also CQC responsible individual.
The risks of recruitment fraud are increasing, and businesses that fail to take action can suffer significant damage—financially, legally, and reputationally. Drawing on our three decades’ experience training UK employers and recruitment agencies, we’ve put together a comprehensive overview of the issue. In an information-packed 45 minutes, we’ll show you how to:
- Identify the key risks of recruitment fraud that could harm your business
- Implement strategies to prevent fraud before it happens
- Understand the legal risks and avoid costly penalties
- Leverage technology to detect and prevent fraudulent activity
- Understand how AI and technology can leave you vulnerable
- Key questions for your recruitment agency
Tips on avoiding fraud in Right to Work checks and visa applications
Ian Westwood
Immigration Consultant , The Westwood Organisation
Ian Westwood worked at the Home Office from 1993-2003. He was an operational Immigration Officer serving at Heathrow, Gatwick and Dover before being promoted to Chief Immigration Officer based in Croydon. Since then he has set up his own consultancy business, providing training and immigration advice to a variety of corporate and private clients on the subject of Immigration. He is regulated by the Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner to provide immigration advice in the UK. Ian’s training credentials include the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s Certificate of Training Practice and the Belbin Team-Role Accreditation.
- ID fraud in right to work checks: where might you be vulnerable?
- Cloning of legitimate companies' immigration documentation
- Qualification fraud: five things you should check
- Fraudulent financial documentation: current scams to be aware of