have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . september 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message hireright type private company industry financial services founded 1995 headquarters irvine ca key people john fennelly products background check revenue undisclosed operating income undisclosed net income undisclosed website www.hireright.com hireright inc. is an american background screening company based in irvine california . on august 3 2010 hireright parent company altegrity risk international announced it had completed the acquisition of kroll inc. from marsh & mclennan companies in an all cash transaction valued at 1.13 billion . both powerchex and kroll background screening are now fully owned subsidiaries of hireright . contents 1 acquisition of powerchex 1.1 powerchex history 2 controversy 3 see also 4 references 5 external links acquisition of powerchex edit on june 23 2010 hireright announced that it had acquired powerchex a uk based pre employment screening company specialising in the financial services sector in the city of london . 1 powerchex was a full member of the uk chapter of the national association of professional background screeners or napbs 2 and was started by alexandra kelly in 2005 who is the former md and owner of the company . in october 2010 powerchex was rebranded as hireright . powerchex history edit every year powerchex commissioned the shell technology and enterprise programme to conduct market research into trends in applicant fraud . the 2007 research discovered that 89 % of undisclosed criminal records are found on the cvs of temps and that overall discrepancies on cvs have fallen by 18 % from 31 % in 2005 2006 to 13 % in 2006 2007 . the findings were published in the national press including the guardian . 3 in the 2008 research 4 powerchex found that 43 % of applicants from the uk s lowest ranking universities had some form of major embellishment hidden on their application compared to just 14 % of applicants from the top twenty rated schools . it also found that maths and science graduates are more honest than arts graduates who have a particularly high rate of major embellishment . the findings were published in the national press including the financial times 5 the times 6 the daily telegraph 7 and bbc news online . 8 the 2009 research of nearly 5 000 job applications in the financial sector found a continued increase in candidates lying on their cvs since the beginning of the recession . nearly one in five applicants now had a major lie on their cv . it also found that young graduates had the largest increase 29 % in the number of lying applicants . the findings were reported on television on the bbc news followed by an interview with powerchex managing director alexandra kelly 9 as well as in national papers including the times and the guardian . 10 the 2010 research revealed the number of job applicants cvs containing discrepancy decreased to 15 % which is the first time in four years that a decrease has been discovered . the largest decrease was found in the banking sector . the rate of hidden criminal records trebled ; 38 % of hidden criminal records were found in applications to the insurance industry and 28 % were found in applications to funds and hedge funds . almost 2 % of financial services applicants concealed a negative credit record and brokers applications were found to contain the highest rate of discrepancies for the second year running . job applicants to financial services from south west england have the highest discrepancy rate with over 25 % found to have contained a discrepancy in their applications . women are more likely to have a discrepancy on their cv than men . as the level to which a job applicant has been educated increases the likelihood of his or her cv to contain a discrepancy decreases . british applicants to jobs in the uk financial sector are three times more likely to contain discrepancies on their cvs than applicants to the same firms from the rest of the world . 11 controversy edit on wednesday august 8 2012 the us department of justice released a statement that hireright had settled charges of violating the fair credit reporting act for 2.6 million us dollars . 12 on december 27 2012 a journalist wrote that yet another man who was disenfranchised by hireright s in accurate reporting is suing them . 13 consumer information site trustlink has an entry for hireright with at the time of this edit 60 reports and a one star average rating . 14 see also edit background check criminal record check security clearance vetting governance risk management and compliance recruitment human resources references edit third of applicants tell lies to get a job . ert weekly . september 1 2005 . powerchex joins the national association of professional background screeners money guardian the powerchex annual survey on cv discrepancies 2008 a degree of creativity the week in work july 24 arts graduates more likely to lie on cvs some students tell more cv lies cv lying is on the increase under 21s told 29 % more lies on job applications this year than last powerchex annual survey 2010 http www.justice.gov opa pr 2012 august 12 civ 986.html http www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com articles hireright sued again 1023 http www.trustlink.org reviews hireright inc 205943475 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hireright & oldid 735111323 categories companies based in irvine californiaamerican companies established in 1995service companies of the united stateshidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from september 2008official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 august 2016 at 17 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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