Employment screening services llc (ess) is an organization’s solution for hiring safe, honest and reliable employees. Ess has…
5.0
2 reviews
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Background Check Software
Software and services for running criminal, employment, education and drug checks on candidates or tenants, so hiring and leasing decisions rest on verified fact rather than a CV.
Veriscreen, inc. Stands as pioneers and industry leaders in the background security field. With 22 years of experience, we…
5.0
2 reviews
Edge information management, inc., founded in 1991, is a national provider of numerous employment screening solutions including…
4.6
4 reviews
Goodhire delivers fast, accurate, and reliable background check results-while also offering the simplest background check…
4.6
270 reviews
Intellicorp, a cisive company, is committed to providing small to mid-size organizations employment screening solutions that help…
4.6
76 reviews
Better by every measure. Get to know the only employment screening experts with unmatched compliance expertise, advanced…
4.5
63 reviews
Incheck offers a full suite of background screening solutions for employers and volunteer organizations. With 20 years of…
4.5
1 reviews
At one source, we believe success for any organization begins with the right people. We provide timely, comprehensive, and…
4.5
2 reviews
We help organisations hire with confidence and operate with integrity through two powerful solutions: global pre-employment…
4.4
6 reviews
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Data facts provides clients with national and international background screening solutions to make sound hiring decisions. We…
4.3
2 reviews
Genesis is a full service consumer reporting agency dedicated to helping our clients make the best hiring decisions based on all…
4.3
3 reviews
Shield screening provides better background checks while alleviating the risk and stress associated with the screening process…
4.3
3 reviews
Founded in 2005, asurint has redefined screening by blending advanced technology with human insights, creating a smarter, more…
4.2
15 reviews
Clearstar, inc. Is a leading human resources (HR) technology company specializing in background, drug, and health screening…
4.2
6 reviews
Universal background provides industry leading people insights to safety sensitive organizations in a simplified experience…
4.2
13 reviews
Accio data was founded in 2006 with its focus solely on pre-employment screening firms. It is unique in that it was founded by…
4.0
1 reviews
As the background screening industry's most widely used technology, frs™ offers our B2B clients a foundation of rock solid…
4.0
1 reviews
Global verification network (gvn) provides custom screening solutions which helps organizations mitigate risk. While focused on…
4.0
5 reviews
Icrederity provides fast and highly reliable employee verification, pre employment screening solutions, credential verification…
4.0
1 reviews
Safe hiring solutions is one of the industry’s most thorough background checks, employment screening, investigation and…
4.0
3 reviews
These providers run the checks that sit between an offer and a start date: criminal record searches at county, state and federal level, employment and education verification, drug and health screening, motor vehicle records, credit checks, and in some cases tenant screening for landlords. A customer submits a candidate's consent and identifying details, the vendor pulls from court records, databases, past employers and schools, and returns a report — usually through a portal or an API into the applicant tracking system — with results flagged against what the employer has decided counts as a pass, a fail, or something needing a second look.
People end up looking for this because they've been burned, or they're worried they will be. A reference that didn't check out after the hire, a degree that was never awarded, a driver with a licence that had already been suspended — any of these turns into a liability question fast, especially in regulated industries like healthcare, transport, education, or finance. Hiring at any real volume also exposes how slow and inconsistent manual checks are: someone in HR calling old employers and typing county court websites, results varying by who did the digging, and offers stalling while everyone waits. Add FCRA, EEOC guidance, and a patchwork of state and local ban-the-box and salary-history-style rules, and doing this by hand becomes a compliance risk as much as an efficiency one.
The products differ mainly in how they source data and how much of the compliance workflow they automate. Some run direct county-level court research themselves, which is slower but more accurate in jurisdictions with poor digital records; others lean on national database aggregation, which is fast but can carry more false positives or gaps that need manual confirmation. Turnaround time varies a lot in practice — same-day versus several days — and matters more the higher your hiring volume. Coverage is another real divide: international checks, gig-economy or high-volume retail screening, and tenant screening are handled well by some vendors and not offered at all by others. Worth comparing directly: adverse-action and dispute workflow automation (does it handle FCRA notices for you or leave that to your legal team), depth of integration with your ATS or HRIS, candidate-facing experience for consent and status tracking, and whether pricing is per-check or bundled, since a la carte pricing gets expensive fast once you add drug testing and education verification on top of a basic criminal check.