Recruitment Regulation and Compliance

HR Officers and Internal Recruiters must understand their legal obligations when advertising vacancies and processing applicants. Some employers must also satisfy industry regulators that they are safely on-boarding new members of staff.

Here we offer HR Officers and Internal recruiters some handy guides on recruitment regulation and compliance.

We include tips on safeguarding and safer recruitment, reference requests and more.

Please contact us with your suggestions if you think we should add to our recruitment regulation and compliance advice for HR Officers and Internal Recruiters.

The Care Act 2014: A Clear Path to Compliance

Compliance with the Care Act 2014 isn’t just about avoiding penalties—it’s about delivering exceptional care that builds trust with clients and regulators.

By Marketing, 1 month6th June 2025 ago

Recruitment Regulation and Compliance

AI’s future impact on HR, recruitment and you

Should we be worried that Artificial Intelligence will eventually replace professional people like HR Leaders and In-House Recruiters? Will Artificial Intelligence be able to do anything and everything, including your job? Yes! Lets explore AI’s future impact. The future capability of AI is not generally in question. Predicting AI’s future Read more…

By shaddow, 6 months22nd January 2025 ago

Recruiting Made Easy

What is safeguarding and safer recruitment?

Welcome to Recruiting Made Easy. In this series, we answer the questions that HR and in-house recruiters ask most often. The series covers recruiting processes, tech and regulation. Up next: What is Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment? Safeguarding: protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, helping them to live free from Read more…

By Marketing, 10 months26th September 2024 ago

CVMinder

Easy employment checks

Stay on top of your Pre-Employment Checks with some fabulous new CVMinder ATS features. HR Heads with safeguarding concerns know that employment checks are critical. How do you ensure that employment checks are thorough and completed successfully before new employees start work? CVMinder ATS now allow you to: Create your Read more…

By Marketing, 3 years2nd August 2022 ago

Recruitment Regulation and Compliance

National Minimum Wage 2020

It is important for all employers to implement changes to the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage from April 2020. Easily forgotten though, there is something else to do. It’s time to check the salaries on your advertised vacancies and make any necessary changes. Among other job boards, our Read more…

By Marketing, 5 years31st March 2020 ago

Recruitment Regulation and Compliance

Employment Reference Requests from your ATS

Managing employment reference requests is one of the most time-consuming jobs for any HR Department. For those with safeguarding obligations, new employees cannot start work until all checks are complete. So, delays in collecting employment reference requests can affect an employee start date. Finding new staff members is hard enough, Read more…

By Marketing, 6 years24th October 2019 ago

Template for Employment Reference Request

Recruitment Regulation and Compliance

Example Employment Reference Request Template

Congratulations! You may be reading this because you have selected your new employee. Now it’s time to take up references and check the reliability of the information you received. If you are looking for an example Employment Reference Request template, one is included in this post. Firstly, let’s deal with Read more…

By Marketing, 6 years24th October 2019 ago

Recruitment Regulation and Compliance

GDPR Checklist for internal recruiters

The new General Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force during May 2018. It’s time to make sure you’re compliant with this handy GDPR checklist for recruiters. GDPR obliges organisations to manage personal information more securely and acquire individual consents to store and process that data. It covers electronic data and Read more…

By shaddow, 8 years28th November 2017 ago

Job Advertising

GDPR. Is this the end of 1-click apply?

Let’s discuss 1-click apply. We’ll check out the benefits, some disadvantages and why General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gets in the way. What is “1-click apply”? “1-click apply” has been offered by job boards such as The Caterer, Indeed and TotalJobs. It allows jobseekers to submit job applications with a Read more…

By shaddow, 8 years24th July 2017 ago