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Powerchex was a UK-based pre-employment screening company specialising in the financial services sector in the City of London. Powerchex was a full member of the UK chapter of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners or NAPBS,〔(Powerchex Joins the National Association of professional background Screeners )〕 and was started by Alexandra Kelly in 2005 who is the former MD and owner of the company. In 2007, Powerchex won three awards at the Thames Gateway Business Awards, including the 'Growth Business', 'Business of the Year', with Kelly scooping 'Business Person of the Year'.〔(Docklands Company Scores Hat-trick at Thames Gateway Business Awards )〕 Powerchex also won the 'Service Business of the Year' award at the Natwest Start-up Awards 2007.〔(Powerchex are scooping awards whilst boosting the UK economy )〕 In 2008 Powerchex was awarded the NatWest Thames Gateway Business of Year. In 2009, the company won the DBC & East London Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Award.〔(DBC/ELCC Business Awards and Gala Dinner 2009 )〕 On June 23, 2010, Irvine, CA based HireRight Inc., a U.S. background screening company, announced that it had acquired Powerchex. On August 3, 2010, HireRight parent company Altegrity Risk International announced it had completed the acquisition of Kroll Inc. from Marsh & McLennan Companies in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.13 billion. Both Powerchex and Kroll Background Screening are now fully owned subsidiaries of HireRight Inc. In October 2010, Powerchex was rebranded as HireRight. == Research == Every year Powerchex commissions the Shell Technology and Enterprise Programme to conduct market research into trends in applicant fraud. The 2007 research discovered that 89% of undisclosed criminal records are found on the CVs of temps and that overall, discrepancies on CVs have fallen by 18% from 31% in 2005/2006 to 13% in 2006/2007. The findings were published in the national press including The Guardian.〔(Money Guardian )〕 In the 2008 research,〔(The Powerchex Annual Survey on CV Discrepancies 2008 )〕 Powerchex found that 43% of applicants from the UK’s lowest ranking universities had some form of major embellishment hidden on their application, compared to just 14% of applicants from the top-twenty rated schools. It also found that maths and science graduates are more honest than arts graduates, who have a particularly high rate of major embellishment. The findings were published in the national press including the Financial Times,〔(A Degree of Creativity )〕 The Times,〔(The week in work: July 24 )〕 The Daily Telegraph,〔(Arts graduates 'more likely to lie on CVs' )〕 and BBC News Online.〔(some students tell more CV lies )〕 The 2009 research, of nearly 5,000 job applications in the financial sector, found a continued increase in candidates lying on their CVs since the beginning of the recession. Nearly one in five applicants now had a major lie on their CV. It also found that young graduates had the largest increase, 29%, in the number of lying applicants. The findings were reported on television on the BBC News, followed by an interview with Powerchex Managing Director Alexandra Kelly,〔(CV Lying is on the increase )〕 as well as in national papers including The Times and The Guardian.〔(Under-21s told 29% more lies on job applications this year than last )〕 The 2010 research revealed the number of job applicants’ CVs containing discrepancy decreased to 15%, which is the first time in four years that a decrease has been discovered. The largest decrease was found in the banking sector. The rate of hidden criminal records trebled; 38% of hidden criminal records were found in applications to the insurance industry, and 28% were found in applications to funds and hedge funds. Almost 2% of financial services applicants concealed a negative credit record, and brokers’ applications were found to contain the highest rate of discrepancies for the second year running. Job applicants to financial services from South West England have the highest discrepancy rate, with over 25% found to have contained a discrepancy in their applications. Women are more likely to have a discrepancy on their CV than men. As the level to which a job applicant has been educated increases, the likelihood of his or her CV to contain a discrepancy decreases. British applicants to jobs in the UK financial sector are three times more likely to contain discrepancies on their CVs than applicants to the same firms from the rest of the world.〔(Powerchex Annual Survey 2010 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Powerchex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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