First Advantage, a Symphony Technology Group (STG) company and the leading global provider of screening analytics and identity solutions, today announced the release of its latest study, \u201cFirst Advantage Employment Screening Trends Report: Asia Pacific, Q1 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFirst Advantage Employment Screening Trends Report: Asia Pacific, Q1 2014.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \nWith more and more multinational companies expanding their footprints in Asia Pacific, the challenges associated with hiring the right candidate have increased. Some of the key challenges in hiring suitable candidates are continually changing regional legislation surrounding anti-corruption, data privacy and consumer protection. The regular updating of the legalities in different countries complicates the background screening process, making it extremely difficult for the employers to perform proper background checks on their candidates, which can ultimately cost businesses a significant amount of revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n \nTo help multinational organizations better understand the screening trends in the APAC market, First Advantage created the report: \u201cFirst Advantage Employment Screening Trends Report: Asia Pacific.\u201d The study reveals key macro and micro trends and provides the insight for organizations to benchmark their current programs against other employers and fine-tune their existing screening practices in the region.<\/p>\n \nThe report is based on data drawn from 300,000 employment background verifications and reference checks conducted by First Advantage in APAC from January to March 2014. The screening results represent a cross-section of the company\u2019s clients located in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Moreover, the report results are segmented under critical discrepancy types (employment, education, financial-related, database) and examines the discrepancy breakdown by country and by industry.<\/span><\/p>\n \nKey findings from the report include:<\/p>\n \n\u201cThrough this trends report, First Advantage seeks to help employers in Asia Pacific identify the current employment background verification trends and understand how they can optimize their screening programmes,\u201d said Matthew Glasner, Managing Director of South APAC at First Advantage. \u201cWe are seeing a significant increase in discrepancies in region and this further highlights the importance of using state-of-the-art screening practices available to ensure companies know who they are hiring, thereby mitigating the business loss associated with a wrong hire.\u201d<\/p>\n \nFirst Advantage is the leading provider of background screening in the world and the largest in Asia Pacific. First Advantage conducts around 23 million global background checks annually.<\/p>\n \nFor a complimentary copy of the \u201cFirst Advantage Employment Screening Trends Report: Asia Pacific,\u201d please contact Chin Wei Chong at weichong.chin@fadv.com.<\/p>\n \nAbout First Advantage<\/p>\n \nFirst Advantage provides comprehensive screening, identity and information solutions that give employers and housing providers access to actionable information that results in faster, more accurate people decisions. With an advanced global technology platform and superior customer service delivered by experts who understand local markets, First Advantage helps customers around the world build fully scalable, configurable screening programs that meet their unique needs. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga., First Advantage has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. More information about First Advantage can be accessed at www.fadv.com.<\/p>\n \nAbout Symphony Technology Group<\/p>\n \nSymphony Technology Group (STG) is a strategic private equity firm with the mission of investing in and being a partner in building great software and services companies. In addition to capital, STG provides transformation expertise to enable its portfolio companies to deliver more value to clients to retain and attract the best talent and to achieve best-in-class business performance. All STG portfolio companies are expected to grow through innovation. STG\u2019s current portfolio consists of 12 global companies with combined revenue of approximately $2.5 billion and thousands of employees spread across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.symphonytg.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First Advantage, a Symphony Technology Group (STG) company and the leading global provider of screening analytics and identity solutions, today announced the release of its latest study, \u201cFirst Advantage Employment Screening Trends Report: Asia Pacific, Q1 2014.\u201d \u201cFirst Advantage Employment Screening Trends Report: Asia Pacific, Q1 2014.\u201d With more and more multinational companies expanding their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"node_moved":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"company":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n