Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act 2018

The 100-point ID check is a verification of the candidate’s identity using the 100-point model, which lays out the minimum required documentation to establish a candidate’s identity under the Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (FTR Act).

A right to work check is conducted to ensure that each candidate you hire is legally eligible to work under Australian laws. First Advantage’s Right to Work check confirms a candidate’s visa and passport status with the relevant immigration authorities. By assessing this status, we will confirm whether or not the candidate is entitled to work in the country, and/or provide details of any limitations attached to their visa.

▪ For Non-Citizens: A check with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection will confirm the visa’s authenticity and the candidate’s right to work in Australia, as well as a description of any conditions or limitations.

▪ For Citizens: First Advantage conducts a proof of citizenship document collection based on documents required to prove citizenship by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. If the candidate has provided an Australian address, the electoral roll will also be checked to further support the applicant’s claim to citizenship. If an Australian passport has been provided, the Passport Validation search based on the machine-readable zone (MRZ) will also be conducted.

First Advantage’s Nationwide Criminal History Check with Certificate check searches the National Names Index for disclosable court outcomes across police records in all Australian states and territories. The search does not include spent convictions unless a statutory obligation exists to disclose information. This search is undertaken through the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

We conduct our background checks for employment by going directly to the source to verify your candidate’s employment history. In instances where a candidate has worked for an employment agency while employed as a financial regulated person at a financial institution, First Advantage will reach out directly to the financial institution to complete the verification.

In instances where we are unable to complete the verification after all attempts have been exhausted, documents may be collected from the candidate to share with the customer regarding the employment history.

Our Education Verification will verify the candidate's academic history and education directly with registrars and administration offices, many of whom know us well, owing to our long-established relationship with them. We verify information provided by candidates with information on the official files, flagging any inconsistencies or discrepancies from the information provided by the candidate.

In instances where we’re unable to complete the verification after all attempts have been exhausted, then documents will be collected from the candidate which may be shared with the customer noting that authentication of the documents is not a part of the service offering.

A professional qualification verification verifies the candidate’s industry accreditation, qualification and/or professional membership information directly with registrars and administration offices, many of whom know us well owing to our long association.

Global Sanctions Search:

The Global Sanctions search is an expansive, government-published watch lists and sanctions database detailing financial and medical fraud, criminal and terrorism activity, sanctions, and debarments. A Global Sanctions search will compare the candidate’s name against lists of individuals, companies, and governments listed on the law enforcement, regulatory enforcement, and sanctions lists, or associated with or involved in any sort of terrorist organisation. This search also includes individuals who have a history of violations of export laws or have been denied export privileges, for example exporting chemical/biological weapons without proper licensing.

Politically Exposed Person Search:

Information on Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), their family members, and close associates comes from our partner sources.

Adverse Media:

This search uses the candidate’s current and previous names against a database collated from more than 12,000 sources taken from the world’s major trade, business, and scholastic journals, local newspapers, regional business publications, national and international business newspapers, industry newsletters, corporate news releases, and newswires from all regions of the globe, for any information pertaining to the candidate.

The search is conducted using thousands of adverse keywords relating to crime, terror, fraud, and other illicit activities. All articles found are reviewed directly with the source to ensure only relevant and recent information is being considered.

The financial regulatory search checks for information from the Australia Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as sources.

Certain roles require a more holistic view of a candidate, and credit checks can be an invaluable way to validate a person's suitability for a role. In Australia, Part IIIA of the Privacy Act 1988 provides limitations on the disclosure of personal information by credit reporting agencies. An individual’s consumer credit file is therefore generally not available for background checking purposes. However, an individual is able to access their own credit file. First Advantage offers a Basic Credit check which is comprised of an individual’s commercial credit file.

A search of office-holdings in privately owned Australian companies, including directorships and shareholdings. Determines the office-holdings of an individual and exposes any conflicts of interest.

Based on the candidate’s address history in the last 3 years or more, First Advantage can launch a directorship check, or a best practice equivalent, in almost every country of the world.