Employee Background Screening

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Since 1993, Onicra has been pioneering the cause of rendering a creditable and secure financial profile and a commercially credible identity to the widely expanding consumer base. It offers valuable industry-oriented service, directed towards locating, assessing and polishing the best personnel and employee resources in India. Onicra offers credible statistical and analytical input, structures valuable research and development programs and act as industry-specific consultants to leading companies throughout India. Onicra also offers industry-specific rating solutions to premier companies, facilitating optimum management and industrial output. Today, Onicra has extended its services to pioneering concerns like Mahindra & Mahindra, Volkswagen, HDFC Bank and Genpact.

Onicra has incorporated industry-leading processes like the PRTS (Performance Rating and Tracking System) to ensure maximum efficiency for its clients. Corporate consultancy is an extremely resourceful and popular service among a pack of detailed commercial and corporate services provided by Onicra. One of the primary features of this service is the Employee Background Screening options, which enable employers to ascertain and evaluate the personal and corporate potential of a future employee. Pre employment checks have been carried by corporate agencies for many years, and have been yielding credible results in the west. It enables the employer concerns to verify an applicant”s potential, industrial aptitude and personal skills.

Onicra prepares an extensive and exhaustive database on the employment applicants, which demonstrate their job-worthiness and efficiency before they are employed. By ensuring that every significant employee meets the detailed and rigorous standards of Onicra”s pre employment screening, the client concerns select a workforce with optimal possible efficiency and tremendous potential for growth. For every employee, Onicra meticulously researches the respective records, associations and affiliations that might affect his/her efficiency, skills and productivity. This arrangement also facilitates effective decentralization of resources, as delegating the pre employment checks takes considerable workload of the human resources departments of companies and commercial institutions.

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Singapore Employment Pass Important Requirements For Foreign Applicants

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The Singapore Employment Pass is a visa issued to foreign businessmen, shareholders, managing directors, supervisors, and employees with specialized skills, according to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).

To prove their eligibility, foreign applicants are required to provide MOM with these following documents and certificates:
Educational certificates, and if applicable, testimonials from their previous employers.

All the documents and testimonials should be in English, if not, these should be translated into this language by an authorized translation service.
A completed Employment Pass Application form which is downloaded from MOMs official website.

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Understanding The Definition Of Employment At Will

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Like with most legal jargon, “employment at will” has both a formal definition and a practical one. In this case, the theory is easy. The basic definition of “employment at will” says the employer or the employee may end the working relationship at any time and for any reason without fearing legal action. This means the employer can fire or lay off the employee whenever they want. According to the theory, the employers do not have to explain why they fired their worker.

This definition also claims the employee may choose to quit his or her job at any time. Under such circumstances, the worker does not have to give the employer the reason for leaving his or her current position.

On its face, this is a simple law that should work for both the employer and the employee. Unfortunately in practice, “employment at will” is not so clear. While most states follow the formal definition, many lower courts have passed laws to cancel the employer’s rights. All of these laws have created many exceptions to the formal definition, and employers must keep this in mind if they need to fire someone.

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Employment and the Job Interview

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If you are seeking employment then at some point in time you will have to have a job interview. How you are perceived at this job interview is what may get you hired so a job interview is very important for future employment. Another important factor included in this employment process is your resume. When you go in offer a job interview you have to be prepared. Just remember that Boy Scout motto of Be Prepared and do your preparation thoroughly so you can’t look back and blame your own actions and preparation for not getting the job.

The Preparation:

When you are looking for a position in just about any organization whether it be public or private or even non-profit you will need to do your homework before you apply. This should include researching the company so you know something about its history or background. Also you should find out how it is doing financially if it is publically traded or has that information available to the public. Of course if it is a private family owned company that information will not be available to you. Although you might be able to do some research if it is a licensed company or has to have a city business license.

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How To Employ Foreign Nationals In Your Singapore Company

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Every year about few thousand foreign owned companies get registered in Singapore. At the same time, the number of foreign professionals working in the country has gone up considerably and now over one-third of the entire working population in Singapore comprises of overseas professionals. Although this year saw a number of amendments introduced on the employment pass scheme to ensure only the best minds were able to live and work in Singapore, overall it is fairly simple for a company to employ foreign nationals in the country.
Firstly companies that need to employ foreigners for whatever reason must ensure they apply for an employment pass for each of the foreign professional they want to employ. The employment pass is actually the main type of work visa meant for foreigners that want to work in Singapore. Obtaining an employment pass takes about a month and authorities would check the background of both the professional who is being employed as well as the company that is employing the foreigner. With the recent changed introduced in the eligibility criteria for an employment pass, authorities in Singapore would look at the relevant work experience of the foreign professional, their educational qualifications as well as their existing and offered salaries in Singapore. The third criterion, that of salary is an important addition to the eligibility for employment pass as Singapore wants to ensure highly skilled professionals who already have a good professional background are able to enter the country.
Foreign companies that are about to incorporate in Singapore and need to bring in staff from their head office can apply for the employment pass immediately after receiving the certificate of incorporation. Again it must be noted that an application has to be submitted for each of the overseas staff members they wish to relocate. Ministry of Manpower (MoM) in Singapore processes employment pass applications and they would ensure that the employment offered is legitimate and whether all rules and regulations are being followed.
If a company in Singapore wants to employ a foreigner who is already working in the country for another company, they must endorse a new application for the foreign professional as each employment pass is connected to one employer. Moment the foreigner stops working for the company that originally employed them, their employment pass expires immediately. Hence for change of companies, foreigners need to apply for the employment pass again endorsed by the new company employing them.