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Gig Economy Background Checks that Help Build a Culture of Trust

Whether your gig business delivers goods, services, or care, we can help you find contractors you and your customers can trust.

Industry Expertise

We Help Gig Platforms Scale up

First Advantage focuses on providing truly global integrations for gig platforms that can be customized to fit within your existing workflows and reduce your background check turnaround time. Scale your programs quickly without sacrificing quality by using our AI and automation tools.

Streamline the application, background screening, and onboarding process with our seamless integrations to provide a user-friendly experience for both your HR team and your workers.

By partnering with First Advantage, you’ll gain our dedicated team specialized in the gig industry, with years of professional experience to help you streamline the screening and onboarding process.

First Advantage has created a scalable service for gig economy background checks that screens 90% of US background checks in less than one day, with 70% of criminal checks coming back within an hour.*

Get a better picture of a candidate’s background by pairing First Advantage background checks with our digital identity services to achieve a more in-depth look into your applicant.

BUILDING TRUST AT SCALE

Expand Globally Using Our Regional Expertise

Our proprietary technology delivers reliable gig economy background check information to help you quickly build a quality workforce. Take advantage of our diverse integrations, local fulfillment platforms, and multi-lingual support teams to navigate cultural differences with ease.

TAILORED SCREENING PROGRAMS

Serving All Gig Industries

We understand all gig economy companies have unique screening and identity requirements for their workforce. Our gig economy background checks can be tailored to fit the needs of any gig industry. Don’t see your industry listed? Ask us how we can help.

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Our services are designed to help you with your programs meet regulatory requirements and promote safer roads with ongoing driver monitoring.

Whether you’re looking for specialists or jacks-of-all-trades, we can help you screen the top talents you need.

Our robust background checks help you connect your users with in-home care workers.

SPECIALIZED SOLUTIONS

Services Tailored to the Gig Industry

While the specific screening needs of every organization may differ, First Advantage’s decades of experience can be leveraged to design the most appropriate solution for your business.

Our sophisticated background screening tools deliver criminal records searches quickly.

Verification of identity with our digital identity solutions combining liveness detection, facial recognition, and biometric matching with key data points.

First Advantage can deliver fast, detailed verifications of your applicants’ education, job history, and other credentials, so you can onboard with confidence.

Our drug and health screening services offer a robust suite of pre-hire and post-hire drug screening to help you meet your compliance and policy requirements.

Go global with our international background checks for gig contractors. We screen in over 200 countries and territories.

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Why First Advantage?

Our advanced fulfillment systems will accelerate the turnaround times of your background criminal record checks. Approximately 90% of our US criminal searches utilize intelligent automation to speed up the entire employment criminal background check process – from checking candidate data against court records to applying your adjudication matrix*.

“Continuous criminal records monitoring in partnership with First Advantage is a critical component of Lyft’s driver screening program.”

Director, Legal and Regulatory Lyft

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Frequently Asked Questions

Services can vary based on the nature of the work, the position, and the risks involved. Criminal record checks, drug and health screening, and driver monitoring are commonly included.

Turnaround times are based on the services ordered. First Advantage completes 90% of US criminal searches within one day.*

The cost of completing a background check can vary based on a number of factors, including the services included, countries involved, volume of requests, and more. Here at First Advantage, we work with you based on your business needs. Contact us to see a demo or get a quote.

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Whether you want to rethink your employment background check program or need enhanced criminal background checks for more informed hiring, we can help.

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*First Advantage, as of 12/31/2024

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