Are Your Background Checks Actually Catching Hiring Risk — or Just Completing Checks?

Most screening programmes look thorough. 

But many are missing the discrepancies most likely to create hiring, compliance, and reputational risk later. 

The Veremark Screening Benchmark analyses close to half a million real background checks completed in 2025 to reveal: 

• Which checks actually detect risk 

• Where most organisations are exposed 

• How your screening process compares to the benchmark 

The findings are hard to ignore: 

• Database checks dominate most screening programmes but flag issues in less than 1% of cases 

• CV gap checks uncover discrepancies 51.7% of the time 

• Education and employment checks surface far higher mismatch rates than standard screening packages 

• 81% of employers stop screening after onboarding, leaving ongoing workforce risk unmonitored 

For HR, talent, and compliance leaders under pressure to hire faster without increasing exposure, this report provides a practical framework to: 

• Benchmark your screening depth and effectiveness 

• Identify the biggest blind spots in your current process 

• Understand which checks actually reduce hiring risk 

• Improve detection without slowing hiring velocity 

Most organisations assume their screening programme is “good enough.” 

This report shows whether it actually is. 

Download the Veremark Screening Benchmark to see where your hiring process is exposed — and what to fix before your next critical hire exposes it for you.