Wed, 2 Nov 2011 | Updated: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:04 amWith increasingly stringent reference and background checks at banks and other City institutions, director of operations and co-founder of City IT recruiter Cititec has told Recruiter the company is considering creating a screening passport.

Robert Grant says: "This is a concept we’re trying to develop with some of our screening agents, and I suppose only time will tell if it comes off."

See the video below for more on Grant’s passport idea:

In the new issue of Recruiter, out today (2 November), brother and co-founder Stephen Grant writes that City recruiters are facing ever greater challenges in background checking candidates.

Grant describes one particular area of difficulty in the video below.

For the full story, see p25 of Recruiter magazine, 2 November.