Global Digital Screening Solutions
The World‘s trusted provider of digital pre-employment and background screening services:
Welcome to your safest candidate experience yet.
The first-choice provider of screening services for over 25 years, we design resilient, comprehensive, and innovative digital screening services that protect your business, your employees, and your customers.
Our solutions have been built to stop fraudsters, terrorists, and criminals at large - whose intent is to cause harm to people and organisations.
We give you the confidence to make your best hires yet, without compromising on your organisational values, ambitions, or goals.
From managed screening services, to hosted options, and a world-class Employment Risk Mitigation team at your service; There is no-one better placed to help your business thrive and succeed with the right people.
We help businesses to strike the balance of automation and efficiency, with a vital and irreplaceable human touch.
Our people are what make the Matrix Security Watchdog difference. Our technology is what fortifies those hiring processes, delivering innovative and distinct security screening solutions, unmatched by anyone else.
Your Candidates, Our Technology: A Premium Experience
We are committed to providing the very best user experience for both you and your candidates. Our trusted and safe systems keep people’s experience at heart, designed to provide a seamlessly intuitive screening journey for your candidates.
But don't just take our word for it, hear from the candidates who use our screening technology...
NOW LIVE: Non-UK Criminality Checks
When running criminality checks on candidates, it can be hard to verify a full criminal background check for those who have been or are outside of the UK. You can now buy non-UK criminality checks on a case-by-case basis - with no sign-up fees, contracts or obligations.
Our Security Checks Services
Matrix Security Watchdog empowers clients to make the best decisions for their business and for their teams.
We understand the sensitivities our clients face when in the hiring process, and the weight of what it means when people fall through the cracks and into the wrong places.
Our Reference checks provide assurance on the employment history and qualifications of new hires.
Our Criminal Background checks ensure safety for your business and its customers.
Our Social and Media checks are designed to give you a deeper look at your candidates, so you can confidently make your best hires yet.
Our Employment Risk Mitigation services are tailored to the unique requirements of your business and the risks it faces.
Better still, all of our services can be tailored to your size and requirements.
Buy Security Screening Online
To screen prospective employees and existing staff on a pay-as-you-go basis, our pay-per-candidate employment screening packages are the perfect solution.
With no sign-up fees or commitment required, it’s a purpose-built, user-friendly platform that makes it quick and easy to appoint new hires. It offers our best candidate experience yet, and provides you, the purchaser, with regular updates throughout the screening journey.
Help Hub
Security Watchdog’s Help Hub will guide you through every step of your employment screening journey so you can secure your offered position as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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Our Technology
From background check API integrations to Volti4 automated screening software, and our screening technology eBulk DBS - we create a seamless employment screening process for all.
About Us
Security Watchdog offers an unrivalled range of pre-employment screening solutions. We offer complete background screening of every kind, in any combination, for our UK and international clients.
We’ve been at the forefront of the employment screening industry for over 25 years. Throughout this time, we’ve helped to establish early best practice industry standards in the world of employee background checks.
Our Framework Programmes
Through the Crown Commercial Services frameworks, organisations can directly procure a range of our service & solutions.
Through the SUPC Temporary & Permanent Recruitment framework, organisations can directly procure our Recruitment Assessment Services.
Through the APUC Executive Search framework, organisations can directly procure our Executive Search & Assessment Services.
Through the ESPO 3S-22 Strategic HR Services framework, organisations can directly procure a range of HR, Recruitment, Background Checking & Talent solutions.
Contact Us
Contact our team to find out more.