Background Checks
Background screen employees, contractors and volunteers with our pre-employment background check expertise. Build a unique, robust solution with our configurable suite of services to help minimize risk and maintain compliance.
Identity Solutions You Can Trust
From recruiting to hiring to onboarding, our AI and data-powered identity verifications, together with our proven proprietary work processes, help mitigate potential fraud, reduce friction, and improve screening accuracy across the hiring lifecycle.
Complete Identity in Seconds
Candidates’ complete identity verification and results are delivered in seconds. Identity biographical information automatically pre-populates into the background check form fields, reducing delays due to typos and improving accuracy.
Why Identity Verification is Essential to Protect Your Business
- Inaccurate Candidate Data: Incorrect data entered by candidates — either intentionally or from accidental typos — can result in quality loss in a background check.
- AI-Driven Fraud: Traditional identity methods may no longer be sufficient as advanced technology, including AI tools, is making it easier than ever for candidates to manipulate identities during the hiring process.
- Remote Work Challenges: The rise of remote work means fewer in-person interactions, making it difficult to flag inconsistencies. Also, fake job seekers have increasingly been targeting companies who are hiring for remote positions.
Contractor, Vendor, & Temporary Staff Screening
Hold your contingent workforce to the same standards as your employees via pre-employment background checks. Whether they work directly with your organisation or come to you through a third party, they become the face of your organisation to consumers and other businesses, often working alongside your employees. Knowing your contingent workforce is just as qualified as your employees can protect the integrity of your business.
Criminal Records Screening
We provide criminal record search services, when available and permissible, to help you uncover relevant criminal records and professional or financial sanctions as part of your pre-employment background screening.
Australia Criminal Search Specifics:
First Advantage Australia currently offers two different National Police History Check services:
- Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Checks via the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) (only available to authorised employers based in Australia)
- Via the Australian Federal Police (AFP)
Australia Right-to-Work Monitoring
With Australia Right-to-Work Monitoring, employers can:
- Monitor employee’s Right-to-Work status throughout their employment cycle
- Add efficiency to hiring, onboarding, and on-going visa monitoring processes
- Maintain compliance with Right-to-Work obligations
Requirements of the Migration Amendment [Reform of Employer Sanctions] Act 2013:
- All new recruits require Work Rights validation
- Temporary visas need to be monitored
- Employers must maintain a full audit trail demonstrating compliance
Licences & Credentials
Our employee screening services confirm vital professional qualifications. We contact the associated state government, granting source, or issuing agency directly to check the status, sanctions, restrictions, and expiration date of any licence or credential that candidate has listed.
Quick Turnaround
93% of criminal background reports are returned within 24 hours
– First Advantage
Turnover Reduction
Quality Hires
Companies who invest in pre-employment background checks are 3X more likely to track quality of hire
– Aptitude Research Partners>
Cost of Negligent Hiring
Social Media Search
Available in: Australia & New Zealand
Social media searches can provide a good deal of job-related information to help you make smarter hiring and management decisions, as well as helping you understand whether a candidate or employee will extend or detract from your mission and values as an organisation.
Our partner uses artificial intelligence and customisable search criteria to comb through publicly available social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, along with a comprehensive news and web search to provide a more complete view of who a person really is.
Our social media searches are GDPR, FCRA, and EEOC compliant.
Verifications
We provide background screening services which confirm or verify immigration status as well as professional and educational backgrounds of applicants efficiently. As the largest background screening provider in the world, we have one of the highest verification rates in the industry.
Australia Civil Litigation Check
First Advantage now provides Civil Litigation Check for Australia, which utilises thorough and reliable insights into civil case histories and information on citizens and foreigners lawfully residing in Australia.
Australia Civil Litigation Check Specifics:
- The official sources for the search are the Courts and Tribunals of Australia, and covers database from 2013 to present.
- The scope of coverage includes the following territories: Commonwealth, Australia Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and Norfolk Islands.
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