Background Screening Companies

Background Screeners

See a More Holistic View of Candidates

Help your clients make better risk-informed hiring decisions. With more comprehensive datasets, including employment, education, identity, and criminal history from the TotalVerify data hub, you can help fuel your business growth and lower people-based risk for your customers. 

One Source For Better Screening Outcomes

Access candidate information faster with the TotalVerify data hub from Equifax.

Accelerate
Speed-to-Hire

Reduce manual efforts with automated verifications for more confident results.

Better Optimize
Operational Costs

Rely on fewer vendors and help boost your team's efficiency.

More Comprehensive
Candidate Insights

Empower clients to make risk-informed hiring decisions with more reliable data. 

See a more holistic view
of candidates

Access unique datasets available to order from just one location with the TotalVerify data hub. Our more comprehensive databases provide updated information for more thorough and reliable checks.

Data Solutions that Help Inform Decision-Making

Time-based or preference-based reports provide candidate insights to assist you in your verification process. Help verify current job status, validate experience, help detect omitted jobs, and better identify tenure patterns to help clients find the right fit.

Post-hire, you can also monitor for overemployment, or employees who hold multiple jobs at once.

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Instantly verifying educational credentials can help speed up the hiring process. Verify postsecondary degrees, dates of attendance, and high school diploma information.

Sourced from the National Student Clearinghouse®  

Start with Smart Screen, which checks for an absence of records in an expansive and proprietary U.S. incarceration data network and sex offender registry data network. This breakthrough first step in the criminal background check process delivers a consumer report. 
 
With the TotalVerify data hub, you can also access pointer solutions to review address history, criminal records, aliases, and court research.
 

    

Did You Know?

Pre-Hire Verifications Can Help Achieve Greater Retention

Employers who access a candidate’s verified employment history in their hiring process observed*
32%

32% Higher

6-month retention rate
48%

48% Higher

1-year retention rate
60%

60% Higher

2-year retention rate

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Why TotalVerify

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The TotalVerify Difference
Improve Your Operational Efficiency

Help expedite the background check process with more reliable data for better accuracy while reducing or possibly eliminating the need to gather information from multiple sources.

Streamline Your Regulatory Efforts

Outdated or inaccurate information can sometimes lead to non-compliance and potential legal issues. Access data that’s more up to date with fewer manual processes to help minimize the risk of human error. 

Build a Foundation for Successful Hiring Outcomes 

Strengthen your client relationships and help reduce liability that can come from unreliable information. Access more comprehensive reports that help you build a competitive advantage.  

Access more of the data you need from one provider. 

Unlock simplified pricing and reduce the need for multiple vendors. 
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Income and Employment Verifications

Income and Employment Verifications

Verify employment and/or income pre-hire. Continue to review employment status post-hire to help you possibly identify multiple employment.
Education Verification

Education Verification

Confirm high school diploma information and postsecondary degrees.
Criminal Background Screenings

Criminal Background Screenings

Review person-based risk with FCRA consumer reports and/or pointer solutions.
Identity Verifications

Identity Verifications

Validate identity, home address history, and access key data to use in state and county history searches. View on theworknumber.com
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Remote Work Revolution: Helping Navigate Background Screening Challenges in 2024

Learn how to better navigate the complexities of background screening for remote workers so you can better meet your regulatory requirements while helping mitigate hiring risks.

Charting a Course: Information on Background Checks for Screeners

Help navigate the complex world of background checks, from federal FCRA regulations to state and local laws.

How Pre-Employment Screening Can Help You Better Safeguard Your Organization

Learn how comprehensive background checks can help improve pre-employment screening while helping build greater confidence in your hiring decisions, better mitigate risks, and help ensure a better fit for your company.

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Optimize Your Screening Programs with Timely, Valuable Data and Services

Your customers trust in you to provide them with timely information to help keep their workplaces and businesses safe. It’s a monumental task, made even more difficult by the pressures to reduce cost, improve speed, maintain relevance, and grow your business.

Equifax is the leading wholesale data and court research provider to the screening industry. Our premier suite of solutions, available as part of the TotalVerify™ data hub from Equifax, enhances efficiency, reduces costly unwanted data, and expands the breadth and quality of your service offerings. An experienced team, innovative solution set, and commitment to partnership make us the provider of choice for hundreds of CRAs.

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Empowering CRAs to Grow Through Innovation

We’re committed to offering innovative solutions to CRAs that reduce workforce risk, keep communities safe, and improve employer hiring practices. Select a solution area for more information.

Workforce Safety

The safety of employees, customers, and the community is enhanced when employers are informed of indicators of fraud, theft, and violence throughout the employee lifecycle.

Our pre-hire pointer solutions enhance the quality and effectiveness of background checks, while our post-hire monitoring solutions provide near real-time alerts on potential new serious crimes within an active workforce or contractor list.

School and Volunteer Safety

Nonprofits, churches, and schools have an elevated responsibility to maintain effective background screening protocols; when vulnerable populations are at risk, timely criminal data is essential.

With our suite of data solutions, background screeners are enhancing the thoroughness of the applicant vetting process and alerting these organizations when a volunteer may have been arrested for a new crime that threatens the safety and livelihood of many.

Tenant Screening

Help your clients avoid past due rent, property damage, disgruntled neighbors, and costly evictions. The cost of a bad renter is high, but the cost of a bad tenant screening process could be even higher.

The TotalVerify data hub offers tenant screeners access to timely pointer data that enhances the quality and efficiency of their research.

Credentialing and Compliance

Healthcare organizations have a responsibility to ensure their workforce is competent and capable of providing high-quality services without presenting high levels of risk to patients, employees, or the business.

We provide a broad suite of solutions and services that help the healthcare industry maintain high standards of care, keep patients safe, and protect organizations from penalties and lawsuits.

A Commitment to Partnership

Your success is our priority. As a partner, you will receive support from our account management, marketing, product, and technical support teams, empowering you to grow your business.

Our team is a trustworthy and confidential source of industry knowledge and skills. Our partners also receive exclusive access to our Partner Center with resources, training courses, and marketing toolkits, enabling the growth of your business.

Because we never compete with CRAs, we can provide collaborative support with the shared understanding that when you succeed, we succeed.

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Better Background Screens Start with Risk Intelligence

CRAs count on us to power smarter background checks and comprehensive post-hire criminal monitoring. We call our suite of solutions for background screeners Risk Intelligence™. Select a Risk Intelligence product below to learn more.

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