Staff Checks
Enhancing how you screen and evaluate candidates.
Client
Staff Checks
Services
Overview
Enhancing how you screen and evaluate candidates.
We helped Staff Checks develop their referencing software, enabling them to efficiently collect references and perform tasks such as credit checks and DBS screenings.
The Challenge
Staff Checks needed referencing software that could keep pace with real hiring, not a spreadsheet that fell over as soon as a few candidates were in play. Collecting references, chasing overdue requests and running checks such as credit and DBS screening all had to live in one place.
Vetting is a process full of waiting. A reference is outstanding, a message comes in, a check completes, another request goes overdue. Without a clear activity feed, teams lose the thread and candidates stall in the pipeline.
The product also had to be usable by people who are not compliance specialists. Starting a check, finding a candidate and seeing what still needs attention should be obvious from the first screen, not buried in menus.
Credits and volume matter in this kind of product. Staff Checks needed a way to see remaining tokens, search the candidate database and keep a live picture of what was overdue, unread or complete, so the team could work the queue instead of hunting for it.
Our Solution
We helped Staff Checks build a referencing platform that brings candidate screening into a single dashboard. From there, users can start a check, open the candidate database and see how many tokens they have left before they begin.
A recent-activity feed sits at the centre of the product. Colour, status badges and dates make it obvious when a reference is overdue, a message is unread or a check has completed, so the next action is always visible.
Search and filters let teams work by type, status and recency rather than scrolling a flat list. That matters once you are running more than a handful of candidates at once, which is exactly when referencing usually breaks down.
The result is software that treats screening as an operational workflow: start the check, chase what is waiting, complete the file. Graham Johnson later described the partnership as planned, clear and strong enough that the business could grow without constantly going out to sell.
Always49 has vision and understanding like no one else I have ever met. They were able to understand what we needed to achieve and explain how we do that in a way that just made sense. By doing things in a really planned out way we have been able to not only grow but get others to sell our business for us. Our business now grows without us needing to go out and sell.
Graham Johnson
Staff Check