Providing bank statements / credit card bills for time spent on the bench???

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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A growth industry! Industrial paranoia,

Indeed it is

http://www.healthbusinessuk.net/content/view/485/34/

"Get your outsourced screener to verify signatures and addresses of directors and cross-reference against dates of birth. Check against photos on annual reports or social network sites. It’s amazing how many don’t tie up!"

My Facebook picture is of two old cars - and I never, ever sign up for social networking sites using my own name or date of birth - so how's that going to look when I'm screened?


These people are dangerous twats trying to make work for themselves by sowing fear.

[nomadd]

Agency on new gig has outsourced the confirmation of my references to a third party. However, this third party has now asked me to provide bank statements for the period I was on the bench as it was over a month.

Anyone else come across this sort of thing?

In times of richer pickings I'd tell them to shove it but I think I'll comply after liberal use of an indelible marker pen.

They can't ask to see any transaction data, so just use marker pen as you have suggested (in fact you'd always do that anyway.) All they want to see is a continuity with your bank statements - i.e. that you have been using the same bank without problems.

Seriously, don't get too paranoid over this. Just do as you have suggested and see how it goes.

Nomadd

[expat]

They can't ask to see any transaction data, so just use marker pen as you have suggested (in fact you'd always do that anyway.) All they want to see is a continuity with your bank statements - i.e. that you have been using the same bank without problems.

Seriously, don't get too paranoid over this. Just do as you have suggested and see how it goes.

Nomadd

It seems they want to see more than that:

According to Church, the process has become so rigorous that to corroborate periods of inactivity or unemployment, for example, the agency may have to provide passport stamps to verify a candidate was travelling, and bank statements to prove there was no irregular activity.

That implies to me that they'd want to check out the transactions too.

[Menelaus]

Er, nope.

You and I both.

[zamzummim]

They can't ask to see any transaction data, so just use marker pen as you have suggested (in fact you'd always do that anyway.) All they want to see is a continuity with your bank statements - i.e. that you have been using the same bank without problems.

Seriously, don't get too paranoid over this. Just do as you have suggested and see how it goes.

Nomadd

Agree, just give them the a statement from that month and don't get paranoid or over-analyse the situation, it could just be some stupid process designed by some ignorant arse, so most likely they are collecting the statement to tick a box... btw are they after a company or personal statement?

[Menelaus]

"According to Church, the process has become so rigorous that to corroborate periods of inactivity or unemployment, for example, the agency may have to provide passport stamps to verify a candidate was travelling, and bank statements to prove there was no irregular activity."

I'm afraid that my answer to this, without wishing to be too argumentative, would be:

1. If I'm going travelling, that's my business not yours - and if I'm travelling in the EU you won't see any stamps in my passport. My passport proves my status as an EU citizen - nothing else should matter to you

2. Given that the vast majority of agents would, I'd imagine, not know money laundering if it jumped up and bit them, and almost certainly have never submitted a SAR to SOCA "irregular activity" is a misnomer

If an agent wants to check that Joe Contractor isn't a member of the Taliban / al-Qaeda they can check this online.

[expat]

Agree, just give them the a statement from that month and don't get paranoid or over-analyse the situation, it could just be some stupid process designed by some ignorant arse, so most likely they are collecting the statement to tick a box... btw are they after a company or personal statement?

must be

Some ignorant arse who thinks nothing of treating people like dirt. I left permie employment so as not to be subject to people like that.

[HeadOfTesting]

another item to add to my criteria for terminating (politely of course) conversations with agents.

I wouldn't worry unduly about this. Even in these chronic market conditions these requests will get rationed out of the market as 99.5% (if not more) of worthwhile candidates will simply say "get lost".

[expat]

another item to add to my criteria for terminating (politely of course) conversations with agents.

I wouldn't worry unduly about this. Even in these chronic market conditions these requests will get rationed out of the market as 99.5% (if not more) of worthwhile candidates will simply say "get lost".

So the non-worthwhile candidates will get the contracts. Great.

[Menelaus]

So the non-worthwhile candidates will get the contracts. Great.

Dumbing down. It's a conspiracy.