Associate
Hi guys, I was recently offered a job for a company in Malta but on the condition that I send certain background information about myself. This is not only things such as past employer references but documentation about my tax/National insurance history from HMRC, qualifications, criminal check, credit check, passport scans and so on. They justify this requirement by saying that the position requires high degree of trust. Maybe its the paranoid in me but it got me sort of thinking about whether there can be a potential danger doing this. This is because, to begin with, I did not find the position myself but was contacted by a Maltese employment agency for it (having found my candidate details online at a job site) and I did have interviews with people via Skype but I have no actual proof that they are who they say they are. A simple internet search showed me that the company has some presence in Malta but I did not find anything further that can offer me a hint about the people that interviewed me.
Obviously lots of companies choose Malta for tax reasons and thats part of our reality. Its also understandable that video links are the only way they can actually conduct interviews when the bulk of candidates will be from outside of the country. However, do you believe that disclosing scans of all sorts of documents and simply emailing them to someone is a safe thing to do?
Obviously lots of companies choose Malta for tax reasons and thats part of our reality. Its also understandable that video links are the only way they can actually conduct interviews when the bulk of candidates will be from outside of the country. However, do you believe that disclosing scans of all sorts of documents and simply emailing them to someone is a safe thing to do?
