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Staffing Agency Background Checks & Screening Solutions

The staffing industry relies on First Advantage to deliver fast, consistent background screening at scale. With advanced automation and fulfillment capabilities, we help you accelerate hiring and meet high-volume demands with confidence.

Trusted Partnership

Your Partner in Staffing Success

Whether you’re managing cost efficiency or speed-to-hire, First Advantage empowers staffing agencies to place candidates quickly without sacrificing thoroughness. Our global screening solutions are trusted by HR teams around the world to build teams and trusted workplace cultures.

Hiring regulations are always evolving, making it a challenge to confidently staff your clients quickly and at scale. We have deep staffing agency expertise to streamline your hiring process while helping you manage compliance for staffing firms with local, state, and national regulations.

Next-Gen Staffing Solutions

Smarter, Faster Credential Verification

Verified® delivers next-gen employment and education verification solutions designed to help staffing agencies onboard top talent faster. Through intelligent data and automation, we reduce manual work and accelerate hiring, so you can get the right people on assignment quickly and confidently.

Powering Smarter Staffing

Advantages of Tech & AI

With industry-leading turnaround times powered by a strong commitment to AI, automation, and direct access to source data, our cloud-based platforms deliver seamless, mobile-first experiences for both customers and candidates. We also offer robust integrations with top HR technology partners, including Bullhorn, Fountain, Workday, and many others.

Proven Solutions for High-Volume Hiring

Our Commitment to Your Staffing Success

Hire efficiently with:

  • Global staffing background checks to vet candidates -around the world
  • Post-hire monitoring to help provide ongoing insights
  • Faster time-to-hire through streamlined processes
  • Simplified screening workflows to ease administrative burden
  • Optimized screening strategies to support large hiring needs
  • High-volume candidate screening to support large hiring needs
Your Staffing, Our Expertise

Tailored Solutions for the Staffing Industry

Our robust suite of criminal screening services gives us direct access to US courthouse records and allows us to uncover more criminal activities. Multiple US and international searches can be added to your program based on your needs.

We perform education verifications in the US and around the world to confirm a candidate’s education history and records with school registries or third-party providers. This includes collegiate, high school, GED, and home-schooling levels.

Leverage AI-based document analysis, biometric validation and liveness detection to confirm applicants’ identity and flag common signs of fraud. The Digital Identity process is mobile-friendly and only takes a few minutes.

First Advantage has partnered with leading HRIS and ATS providers to streamline the hiring and background screening program. Order background checks, receive status updates and review results within a single centralized location.

The technology industry has above-average rates of substance abuse. Our solutions help protect your workforce and customers by screening for common drugs and alcohol. Use oral testing for a quick turnaround.

See through dishonest resume claims by confirming your applicants’ education, employment and credentials. Our proprietary SmartHub solution and Verified! database speed up verification time by 72%.

Automate key rescreening of your existing workforce at scheduled intervals to search for relevant new information. Available searches include criminal history searches, motor vehicle records and global sanctions.

Start Hiring Smarter and Onboarding Faster  

GLOBAL LEADER

Why First Advantage? 

Our advanced fulfillment systems will accelerate the turnaround times and enhance search accuracy on 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*.

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“Our transition to First Advantage at the beginning of this year has exceeded all expectations. The implementation was seamless, and their communication throughout the process has been exceptional. What truly sets them apart is how they made us feel like their only client from a partnership perspective. During our initial conversations, they carefully listened to every concern we raised, addressed each one before implementation, and have consistently followed through on their commitments since going live. First Advantage has proven to be a true partner in every sense of the word.”

Senior Vice President,
Client Delivery Broadleaf

Get Started with Our Background Screening

Hire confidently with quick and thorough confirmation of a candidate’s education, job history, and other credentials.

*First Advantage, as of 12/31/2024

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